About
Professor Anne C. Dailey serves as Associate Dean for Faculty Development and Intellectual Life at the University of Connecticut School of Law, where she has taught since 1990. She holds the Ellen Ash Peters Professorship and specializes in children and the law, psychology and law, family law, and law and psychoanalysis.
- JD, Harvard Law School (magna cum laude)
- BA, Yale University (cum laude)
Her research focuses on legal frameworks governing children's rights, parental responsibilities, and psychoanalytic theory's intersection with constitutional law. She has authored influential works in top-tier law journals, including Law and the Unconscious: A Psychoanalytic Perspective (2017), which received multiple accolades.
Recent publications explore evolving concepts of state responsibility (In Loco Reipublicae, 2023), legal definitions of parenthood (The New Law of the Child, 2018), and parental rights in modern contexts (The New Parental Rights, 2021). These works demonstrate interdisciplinary approaches combining legal analysis with psychoanalytic theory.
- Recipient of CORST prize (2002)
- Awarded American Psychoanalytic Association’s Courage to Dream Book Prize (2018)
- Held visiting professorships at Harvard, Yale, and Penn Law Schools
A Harvard Law Review co-chair and former clerk to Judge Jose A. Cabranes, Professor Dailey combines practical and theoretical expertise. She serves on the American Law Institute and contributes to the Restatement of the Law of Children, while maintaining affiliations with psychoanalytic institutes in New England.
