About Dalié
Dalié Jiménez combined technical training and political study before turning to law. She earned a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and a degree in Political Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2001. She then attended Harvard Law School, receiving her J.D. in 2009.
Her early work bridged policy and public service. In 2004 she served as director of special projects and budget director for State Senator Jarrett T. Barrios. That role preceded a series of legal positions that began with a clerkship at Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi in 2007. She returned to Ropes & Gray as a summer associate in 2009 and joined the firm’s litigation department as an associate in 2010.
A move into federal policy came in 2011 when she worked at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau as a policy fellow in the Deposits, Cash, Collections & Reporting Markets Office. The experience placed her inside a newly formed agency during its early years. She moved into academia the following year, joining the University of Connecticut School of Law as an associate professor and serving as a Jeremy Bentham Scholar.
In 2017 she accepted a professorship at the University of California, Irvine School of Law. Her academic career spans teaching, scholarship, and involvement in policy discussions. She has practiced or been admitted in Massachusetts and before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. She has maintained membership in the Massachusetts State Bar since 2009.
Colleagues describe her work as blending rigorous doctrinal analysis with attention to regulatory and institutional detail. Her background in engineering and political science underpins an approach that often examines how rules operate in complex systems. She has experience in litigation, federal regulatory work, and law school teaching and scholarship.
Her classroom work and writing reflect the variety of earlier roles: lawyer in private practice, federal policy fellow, and state government staffer. Those roles give her a vantage point on both how rules are written and how they are enforced. She continues to teach and publish while participating in law school governance and public-facing discussions about legal institutions.
Her current practice focuses on teaching, scholarship, and policy-related research at the University of California, Irvine School of Law.
