Professor of Law, Associate Dean of Faculty Research and Development
B.A., Wesleyan University
J.D., University of Michigan
E-mail:
edaly@widener.edu Phone: 302.477.2143
Erin Daly is Professor of Law and Associate Dean of Faculty Research and Development at Widener's Delaware campus. Dean Daly received a B.A. from Wesleyan University in 1983, and a J.D. from University of Michigan in 1989, cum laude.
Dean Daly joined the faculty at Widener in 1993, serving as Assistant Professor from 1993-96 and Associate Professor from 1996-2003. She directed Widener’s summer programs in Sydney, Australia in 2000, 2003, and 2006 and in Venice, Italy in 2008. She chaired the Law School’s Self-Study Committee and she is a member of Widener Law & Inequality Project.
Dean Daly teaches in the areas of Constitutional Law, Comparative Constitutional Law, Federal Courts, Administrative Law, Civil Liberties, and First Amendment.
She has written extensively on transitional justice issues throughout the world. Her book, Reconciliation in Divided Societies: Finding Common Ground, (co-authored with Jeremy Sarkin) was published in the University of Pennsylvania Press’s Human Rights Series in 2006. Read reviews of the book. She is currently working on a book on comparative constitutional law.
Dean Daly also writes in the area of American constitutional law; her most recent solicited article is on the first amendment rights of public employees. She chaired a silent symposium on the independent counsel law on the occasion of its sunsetting in 1999. She also served as a Vice- chair of the Young Lawyer’s Division Law and Media Committee of the American Bar Association. Following graduation from law school, Dean Daly was admitted to the bar in California and practiced First Amendment and employment law at Cooper, White & Cooper, San Francisco, from 1990-93.Selected Recent Publications
Books
- Reconciliation in Divided Societies: Finding Common Ground (U. Penn. 2006) with Jeremy Sarkin, with Foreword by Archbishop Desmond Tutu.
Articles
- Rule of Law and Justice in Encyclopedia of Transitional Justice, eds. Lavinia Stan and Nadya Nedelsky, Cambridge University Press (forthcoming)
- Truth in Encyclopedia of Transitional Justice, eds. Lavinia Stan and Nadya Nedelsky, Cambridge University Press (forthcoming)
- Garcetti in Delaware, 7 Del. L. Rev. (2009)
- Human Rights in Encyclopedia of United States Political History, Vol. 7: 1976-Current, ed. Richard M. Vallely. Washington, DC: CQ Press (forthcoming)
- Truth Skepticism: An Inquiry Into the Value of Truth in Times of Transition, International Journal of Transitional Justice (forthcoming 2007)
- The New Liberty, 11 Widener L. Rev. 221 (2005).
- with Jeremy Sarkin, Too Many Questions, Too Few Answers: Reconciliation in Transitional Societies, 35 Colum. Hum. Rts. L. Rev. 661 (2004).
- Reparations In South Africa: A Cautionary Tale , 33 U. Mem. L. Rev. 367-407 (2003) (Symposium Issue).
- Let the Sun Shine In: The First Amendment and the War on Terrorism, Del. Law., Sum. 2003, at 14.
- New Hurdles for Environmental Justice Plaintiffs, 17 Nat. Resources & Env’t 18 (2002).
- Between Punitive and Reconstructive Justice: The Gacaca Courts in Rwanda, 34 N.Y.U. J. Int'l L. & Pol. 355-396 (2002).
- United States Supreme Court, entry in The Oxford Companion to the High Court of Australia, 692 (Tony Blackshield et al. eds., 2002).
- Transformative Justice: Charting a Path to Reconciliation, 12 Int'l Legal Persp. 73-183 (2002).