Publications - Nantiya Ruan

Books

Fair Labor Standards Act (Bloomberg 4th ed., 2022 annual update) (with Ellen C. Kearns et al.).

Developing Professional Skills: Workplace Law  (West Academic Publishing, 2016) (with Rachel Arnow-Richman).

The New 1L: Fist-Year Lawyering with Clients (Carolina Academic Press, 2015) (with Eduardo R.C. Capulong, Michael A. Millemann, and Sara Rankin).

Book Chapters

Individualized Justice in Class and Collective Actions, in Beyond Elite Law: Access to Civil Justice in America (Samuel Estreicher & Joy Radice eds., Cambridge University Press, 2016).

Challenges to Non-Selection Screening Devices: The Disparate Impact of Credit and Criminal Background Checks, in Title VII of the Civil Rights Act after 50 Years (Samuel Estreicher & Anne Marie Lofaso eds., LexisNexis, 2015).

Title VII Disparate Impact in Pay Equity Cases, in Title VII of the Civil Rights Act after 50 Years (Samuel Estreicher & Anne Marie Lofaso eds., LexisNexis, 2015).

Articles

Work Hierarchies and Social Control of Laborers, 56 Creighton L. Rev. 191 (2023).

Racial Pay Equity in “White” Collar Workplaces, 88 Brooklyn L. Rev. 519 (2023).

Attorney Competence in the Algorithm Age, 35 ABA J. Lab. & Emp. L. 317 (2021).

Papercuts: Hierarchical Microaggressions in Law Schools, 31 Hastings Women’s L. J. 3 (2020).

No Longer a Second-Class Class Action? Finding Common Ground in the Debate Over Wage Collective Actions , 11 Fed. Cts. L. Rev. 27 (2019) (with Scott Moss).

Is There a Future for Work?, 25 Geo. J. on Poverty L. & Pol'y 343 (2018) (with Wendi S. Lazar).

Corporate Masters & Low-Wage Servants: The Social Control of Workers in Poverty, 24 Wash. & Lee J. Civil Rts. & Soc. Just. 103 (2017).

Stabilizing Low-Wage Work: Legal Remedies for Unpredictable Work Hours & Income Stability, 50 Harv. C.R. - C.L. L. Rev. 1 (2015) (with Charlotte Alexander & Dr. Anna Haley-Lock).

Student, Esquire?: The Practice of Law in the Collaborative Classroom, 20 Clinical L. Rev. 429 (2014).

Hours Equity is the New Pay Equity, 59 Villanova L. Rev. 35 (2014) (with Nancy Reichman).

Same Law, Different Day: The Last Thirty Years of Wage Litigation and its Impact on Low-Wage Workers, 30 Hofstra Lab. & Emp. L.J. 355 (2013).

What's Left to Remedy Wage Theft? How Arbitration Mandates that Bar Class Actions Impact Low-Wage Workers, 2013 Mich. State L. Rev. 1103 (2013).

The Second-Class Class Action: How Courts Thwart Wage Rights by Misapplying Class Action Rules, 61 Am. U. L. Rev. 523 (2012) (with Scott Moss).

Experiential Learning in the First Year Curriculum: The Public Interest Partnership, 8 Legal Commc’n & Rhetoric 191 (2011).

Facilitating Wage Theft: How Court Use Procedural Rules to Undermine Substantive Rights of Low-Wage Workers, 63 Vanderbilt L. Rev. 727 (2010).

Accommodating Respectful Religious Expression in the Workplace, 92 Marq. L. Rev. 1 (2008).

Bringing Sense to Incentives: An Examination of Incentive Payments to Named Plaintiffs in Employment Discrimination Class Actions, 10 Emp. Rts. & Emp. Pol’y J. 395 (2006).

Policy Reports

Shifting Gears: Moving Colorado Away from Criminalizing Vehicle Residency and Towards Safe Parking (2021).

Yes, In My Backyard: Building ADUs to Address Homelessness (2018).

Too High a Price 2: Move on to Where? (2018).

Too High a Price: What Criminalizing Homelessness Costs Colorado (2016).

Other

Work Hierarchies and the Social Control of Workers, 56 Creighton L. Rev. 191 (2023) (Symposium on Professor Teri A. McMurtry-Chubb’s book, Race Unequals: Overseer Contracts, White Masculinities, and the Formation of Managerial Identity in the Plantation Economy (2021)).

Hon. Ronald L. Ellis, U.S. Magistrate Judge for the Southern District of New York "No One Makes It on His Own": Widening the Halls of Justice, Fed. Law., Dec. 2015, at 30.

Chapter Introduction: Pay Inequality, Access to Work, and Discrimination, 91 Denv. U. L. Rev. 869 (2014).

"Sexting" and Surveillance: How Smartphones Change Workplace Harassment, 90 Denv. U. L. Rev. Online 7 (2013).