
Dalié Jiménez is a Professor of Law at the University of California, Irvine School of Law, where directs the Student Loan Law Initiative and is co-principal investigator of the Princeton Debt Collection Lab and the Financial Distress Research Project. Her research and teaching focus on debt, student loans, consumer law, bankruptcy, and access to justice.
An elected member of the American Law Institute, Professor Jiménez is also a fellow of the the American Bar Foundation. She served on the American Bankruptcy Institute’s Commission on Consumer Bankruptcy and helped draft the proposed Consumer Bankruptcy Reform Act of 2020. Before joining academia, Jiménez was a founding staffer at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, where she contributed to policy work on debt collection, debt relief, credit reporting, and student loan issues. She has testified several times before the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives on debt-related issues.
Born in Cuba, Professor Jiménez emigrated to the US as a teenager. She is a cum laude graduate of Harvard Law School and holds dual B.S. degrees in electrical engineering/computer science and political science from MIT. She posts at @dalie.bsky.social.