IRVINE, Calif. (Jan 9, 2024) — The University of California, Irvine School of Law (UCI Law) is pleased to announce that Professor Dalié Jiménez is the lead principal investigator on a project that was awarded $200,000 by the California Collaborative for Pandemic Recovery and Readiness Research (CPR3) to study the effects of pandemic-related interventions on California student loan borrowers. The funds will support two new research analysts at the UCI Student Loan Law Initiative, directed by Jiménez, and a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law. The project’s team also includes co-principal investigators Jonathan D. Glater of Berkeley Law and Marshall Steinbaum of the University of Utah.
Jiménez is also a co-principal investigator on a team that received $150,000 from The Pew Charitable Trusts to support a research study analyzing the effect of changes in state court litigation rules on debt collection lawsuits in several states. The funds will support a postdoctoral researcher at Berkeley Law. Prasad Krishnamurthy of Berkeley Law is the study’s main principal investigator along with co-principal investigators Claire Raba at the University of Illinois Chicago School of Law and Manisha Padi and Abhay Aneja of Berkeley Law.
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