Dailé is a Professor of Law at University of California, Irvine. Her scholarly work focuses on contracts, bankruptcy, and consumer financial distress, the regulation of financial products and its intersection with consumer protection, and access to justice. Dailé uses qualitative and quantitative empirical methods to explore the questions of how individuals cope with financial distress, how and whether our legal framework and institutions help or hinder individuals extricate themselves from this distress, and the role of the legal profession in helping individuals with this and other civil legal problems.