ERIN DALY

Erin Daly is founder of Dignity Now!, a NGO dedicated to dignity rights education, advocacy, and reform.  She is the author of numerous books including Dignity Rights: Courts, Constitutions, and the Worth of the Human Person (2013, 2020) and the forthcoming Dignity in America: Transforming Social Conflicts and co-author of Reconciliation in Divided Societies: Finding Common Ground (2006, 2010) and Dignity Law: Global Recognition, Cases, and Perspectives (2020). She has written numerous articles and edited collections on constitutionalism, environmental rights, and human dignity.

She is Emerita Professor of Law at Widener University Delaware Law School in the United States, where she directs the Dignity Rights Institute and the Dignity Rights Clinic. Previously, she served as Dean and as Global Liaison for Foreign Programs. She has served as Visiting Professor in France, Bhutan, Haiti, South Africa, Pakistan and she is currently Visiting Clinical Professor at NALSAR in Hyderabad, India where she is co-teaching a dignity clinic.

She is the US Representative for the Centre for Comparative and International Environmental Law, and chaired the drafting of an International Covenant on Environmental Rights. She was a founding member of the Global Coalition of Civil Society, Indigenous Peoples, Social Movements, and Local Communities for the Universal Recognition of the Human Right to a Clean, Healthy, and Sustainable Environment which was recently honored with the United Nations Human Rights Award.

She works on dignity education and dignity-related projects around the world on issues including child rights and climate rights.