Professor Dyal-Chand's research and teaching focus on property law, poverty and economic development. Her recent projects examine credit, including microlending and credit card lending, as a means of economic development. Her current research explores property formalization and wealth accumulation by the poor in the United States. Professor Dyal-Chand's article, "Human Worth as Collateral," won the 2006 Association of American Law Schools scholarly papers competition for new law teachers. Her work has appeared in journals including the Stanford Journal of International Law, Tennessee Law Review, and Rutgers Law Journal. She teaches Modern Real Estate Development, Intellectual Property and Property. She is also an editor of the law school's SSRN online publication, Human Rights and the Global Economy.

Prior to joining the law school faculty in 2002, Professor Dyal-Chand served as an associate general counsel of The Community Builders, Inc., a nonprofit affordable housing developer, where she provided legal representation on all aspects of complex real estate and housing development transactions. Following law school, she served as a law clerk to the Hon. Warren J. Ferguson of the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, was a Public Interest Fellow at the law firm of Hall & Associates in Los Angeles and practiced in the business department of the Boston law firm of Foley Hoag, where she specialized in transactions involving intellectual property licensing and transfer.

PUBLICATIONS:

"Human Worth as Collateral," 38 Rutgers Law Journal 793

A Guide to Copyright Issues in Higher Education, Fourth Edition, published by the National Association of College and University Attorneys, 1997, Co-author (this pamphlet discusses sources of copyright liability and available protections for colleges and universities and their employees, including in the areas of computer software systems, networks, and internet use).

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