Nantiya Ruan
NANTIYA RUAN is Counsel at Outten & Golden LLP, where she primarily represents employees in class discrimination and wage and hour cases. Ruan works from her Denver office, where she is also the Hartje and Reese Chair of Lawyering Process at the University of Denver Sturm College of Law.
Prior to joining O&G in 2000, Ruan was a judicial clerk for Magistrate Judge Ronald L. Ellis in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. She has also clerked in the state appellate courts. From 2003 to 2004, Ruan was an associate at Goldstein, Demchak, Baller, Borgen & Dardarian in Oakland, California, a plaintiffs' firm representing workers in national civil rights litigations.
In 2004, Ruan joined the faculty at Denver Law where she teaches legal writing and advanced workplace law course. Her scholarship explores the intersection of workers rights, complex litigation, and poverty law. She also writes on experiential learning with clients and teaching public interest to law students.
- Employment Law
- Employee Benefits, Employment Contracts, Employment Discrimination, ERISA, Overtime & Unpaid Wages, Sexual Harassment, Whistleblower, Wrongful Termination
- California
- State Bar of California
- Colorado
- Colorado Supreme Court
- New York
- English
- Thai
- University of Denver
- J.D.
- New York State Bar  # 3944006
- Member
- - Current
- Corporate Masters & Low-Wage Servants: The Social Control of Workers in Poverty
- 24 Wash. & Lee J. Civil Rts. & Soc. Just. 103
- Fair Labor Standards Act, Cumulative Supplements (2011-2017)
- BNA Books
- Fair Labor Standards Act, Cumulative Supplements (2014 and 2017)
- BNA Books
- Developing Professional Skills: Workplace Law
- West Academic Publishing
- Individualized Justice in Class and Collective Actions
- Cambridge University Press