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 was the Director of the Sydney International Law Institute in 2000, 2003 and 2006; in 2008, she will direct the Widener Summer Program in Venice, Italy. She chaired the Law School’s Self-Study Committee. 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 is currently working on a casebook on comparative constitutional law with Australian Professor Anthony R. Blackshield. She has also 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.
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Dean Daly also writes in the area of American constitutional law. 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
- 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).