Robin R. RungeAssistant Professor of Law  Robin R. Runge is an Assistant Professor of Law at the University of North Dakota School of Law where she teaches in the Employment and Housing Law Clinic. She received her B.A. from Wellesley College in History and French and her J.D. from The George Washington University Law School. Before coming to the University of North Dakota School of Law, Professor Runge taught public interest lawyering and domestic violence law at The George Washington University Law School and domestic violence law at The American University Washington College of Law. From 2003 to 2009, Professor Runge was Director of the Commission on Domestic Violence at the American Bar Association where she managed all aspects of Commission programming including developing training curricula for attorneys, writing articles and speaking domestically and internationally on various aspects of domestic violence and the legal response to domestic violence including the employment rights of domestic violence victims. Previously, Professor Runge was Deputy Director and Coordinator of the Program on Women’s Employment Rights (POWER) at the D.C. Employment Justice Center and the Coordinator of the Domestic Violence and Employment Project at the Employment Law Center, Legal Aid Society of San Francisco. Professor Runge was the first George Washington University Law School graduate to receive an Equal Justice Fellowship from Equal Justice Works (formerly the National Association for Public Interest Law). With her fellowship, Professor Runge created the Domestic Violence and Employment Project at the Legal Aid Society of San Francisco, one of the first programs in the country devoted exclusively to advocating for the employment rights of domestic violence victims. Professor Runge’s scholarship and advocacy interests focus on the employment rights of low income women and the intersection of violence against women and employment law, including analysis of the Family and Medical Leave Act, Title VII, the Americans with Disabilities Act, unemployment insurance, and employment protections for victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, and stalking. Professor Runge is a member of the California Bar and District of Columbia Bar and is from Collinsville, Illinois, outside of St. Louis, Missouri.
EDUCATION The George Washington University Law School, Washington, DC Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA University of North Dakota School of Law, Grand Forks, ND - Summer 2009 – Present American University, Washington College of Law, Washington, DC - Spring 2005-2009 The George Washington University School of Law, Washington, DC – 2004-2009 Robin Runge and Julie Goldscheid, Employment Law and Domestic Violence: A Practitioner’s Guide, American Bar Association Commission on Domestic Violence (ABA forthcoming 2010). Pam Paziotopoulos and Robin Runge, What Employers Can Do to Minimize the Impact of Domestic Violence and Stalking in the Workplace in Preventing and Managing Workplace Violence, Legal and Strategic Guidelines, Mark A. Lies, II, Editor (ABA 2008). Robin R. Runge, Employment Rights of Sexual Assault Victims, Clearinghouse Review, Journal of Poverty Law and Policy, Vol. 40, Nos. 5-6, pp. 299-312 (September – October 2006). Robin Runge, Editor (with Margaret Drew, Lisae Jordan, and Donna Mathews), The Impact of Domestic Violence On Your Legal Practice, A Lawyer’s Handbook, 2nd Edition; co-author, The Role of Law Schools in Increasing Access to Justice for Victims of Domestic Violence; author, Employer Liability and Domestic Violence Victims. (ABA 2004). Margaret Drew, Lisae Jordan, Donna Mathews, Robin Runge, editors, The Impact of Domestic Violence On Your Legal Practice, A Lawyer’s Handbook, 2nd Edition; co-author, The Role of Law Schools in Increasing Access to Justice for Victims of Domestic Violence; author, Employer Liability and Domestic Violence Victims. (ABA 2004). Robin R. Runge, It All Comes Down to Gender: The Supreme Court Considers State Immunity to the Family and Medical Leave Act, 29-SPG Hum. Rts. 4 (Fall 2002). Robin R. Runge, Rebecca Smith, and Richard W. McHugh, Unemployment Insurance and Domestic Violence: Learning from Our Experiences, Seattle Journal for Social Justice, Vol. 1, Issue 2, (Fall/Winter 2002). Robin Runge, Marcellene Hearn, and Spenta Cama, Domestic Violence as a Barrier to Employment, Clearinghouse Review, Journal of Poverty Law and Policy, Special Issue: Barriers to Employment for Low Income Workers, Vol. 34, Nos. 9-10, pp. 552-562, (Jan. – Feb. 2001). Robin Runge & Marcellene Hearn, Employment Rights Advocacy for Domestic Violence Victims, Domestic Violence Report, Vol. 5, No. 2 (December/January 2000) (reprinted in Domestic Violence Law, Ch. 16, Sec. B. Workplace Violence, Nancy Lemon, editor (West 2000)). Robin Runge, Double Jeopardy: Victims of Domestic Violence Face Twice the Abuse, SELECTED RECENT INVITED PRESENTATIONS DOMESTIC AALS Annual Meeting, American Association of Law Schools, New Orleans, LA, January 9, 2010. Presented on a panel entitled, Reviving Employee Rights? Recent and Upcoming Employment Discrimination Legislation, discussing recent federal anti-discrimination in employment and job-guaranteed leave from work legislation and its implications. Legal Services of North Dakota’s Christmas CLE, Legal Services of North Dakota, Bismarck, North Dakota, December 11, 2009. Conducted a 3 hour continuing legal education training entitled, A Roadmap to Survival for Attorneys Representing Victims of Domestic Violence, for an audience of 70 legal services and pro bono attorneys from North Dakota. Illinois Family Violence Coordinating Council 7th Judicial Circuit of Illinois, Jacksonville, Illinois, December 3, 2009. Conducted a 3 hour continuing legal education training entitled, The Employment Rights of Victims of Domestic Violence, Sexual Assault, and Stalking, for an anticipated audience of 60 including judges, court personnel, domestic violence advocates, legal services attorneys and public defenders. Advanced Legal Issues Training Statewide Training, North Dakota Council on Abused Women’s Services/Coalition Against Sexual Assault in North Dakota, Bismarck, North Dakota, August 27-28, 2009. Presented workshops entitled, Recent National Legal Trends in Responding to Domestic Violence, and Domestic Violence Advocates as Expert Witnesses. 8th Annual National Crime Victim Law & Litigation Conference, National Crime Victim Law Institute, Portland, Oregon, June 30, 2009. Co-Presenter, Access to Justice For Survivors of Domestic and Sexual Violence with Disabilities. Innovation Through Collaboration: Building a Community Response to Family Violence, hosted by the Columbus Coalition Against Family Violence, April 29-May 1, 2009, Columbus, Ohio. American Bar Association Midyear Meeting, hosted by the ABA Young Lawyers Division, February 13, 2009, Boston, MA. National Legal Aid and Defenders Association 2008 Annual Conference, November 20-21, 2009, Washington, DC. Third Judicial Circuit Family Violence Prevention Council Eleventh Annual Fall Training, October 22, 2009, Edwardsville, Illinois. 17th Annual Conference: There’s No Excuse for Abuse, hosted by the Utah Domestic Violence Council, September 16, 2008, Salt Lake City, UT. Unemployment Insurance Appeals Boards Annual National Conference, June 11, 2008, Scottsdale, AZ. 17th Annual National Multidisciplinary Conference on Domestic Violence hosted by the National College of District Attorneys, October 30, 2007, Orlando, FL. INTERNATIONAL International Conference on Violence Against Women hosted by the Egyptian National Council for Women Combating Violence Against Women Project in Partnership with USAID, May 26-27, 2009, Cairo, Egypt. Presenter, U.S. Violence Against Women Act: Lessons Learned. National Anti-Domestic Violence Network and Training for judges with the Supreme Court of the Peoples Republic of China co-hosted by the ABA Rule of Law Initiative in China, July 21-31, 2009, Beijing, China. Presenter, Evidence in Domestic Violence Cases, Mediation in Domestic Violence Cases, and a history of the development of Coordinated Community Responses to Domestic Violence in the U.S. American Bar Association, Washington, DC - 2003-Summer 2009
D.C. Employment Justice Center, Washington, DC - 2001 – 2003
National Coalition Against Domestic Violence, Washington, DC 2000 – 2001
Employment Law Center, Legal Aid Society of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA -1997 - 2000
U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Washington, DC - Spring 1997
Employment Law Center, Legal Aid Society of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA -Summer 1996
U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division, Washington, DC - Summer 1995
National Partnership for Women and Families, Washington, DC - 1993 - 1994
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS/ASSOCIATIONS & SERVICE Member, American Association of Law Schools (AALS)
Section on Clinical Legal Education - 2009-present Recipient, Mathew O. Tobriner Public Service Award, Legal Aid Society, Employment Law Center (2007) Member of the California and District of Columbia Bars.
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