Biographies
Director, Workplace Law Program
Associate Professor
Rachel Arnow-Richman teaches and writes in the areas of employment law and discrimination, labor law, and employment contracts. She has held faculty positions at Temple University School of Law and Texas Wesleyan University School of Law. Prior to entering teaching, Prof. Arnow-Richman was an associate at Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP, in Philadelphia, where she defended and counseled corporate clients on employment matters. She is currently writing a new casebook, “Employment Law: Private Ordering and Its Limitations.”
Professor Arnow-Richman’s employment related law review articles have appeared in the Texas Wesleyan Law Review, Texas Journal of Women and Law, Oregon Law Review, and Indiana Law Journal. She has articles forthcoming in the Utah Law Review and Michigan State Law Review.
Ronald V. Yegge Clinical Director
Associate Professor
Christine Cimini is the Director of Clinical Programs at DU and teaches in the civil litigation clinic. Christine utilizes an innovative teaching design in which students engage in individual and community representation in a variety of substantive areas depending on current community needs. In the past, the focus of clinic representation has included day laborer issues, predatory lending, housing and domestic violence. Christine and her clinic students received the Clinical Legal Education Award for Excellence in Public Interest Project in May of 2002 for their work addressing the problem of predatory lending in Denver.
Prior to arriving at DU, Christine was a Robert M. Cover Fellow in Clinical Teaching at the Yale Law School. Since arriving at DU, she spent one year visiting at Cornell University Law School. Her publications include a three-part series on welfare reform and due process and a recent focus on legal issues that arise when representing undocumented immigrant workers. Her most recent article entitled Ask, Don’t Tell: Ethical Issues Surrounding Undocumented Workers’ Status in Employment Litigation will be published in the Stanford Law Review. Other articles have been published in the Maryland Law Review, the Rutgers Law Review and the Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law and Policy.
Christine is a member of the Board of Directors of the Clinical Legal Education Association, is co-chair of the AALS, Clinical Section, Regional Conference Committee, a member of the AALS, Clinical Section, Scholarship Committee and a member of the Clinical and Skills Education Committee of the ABA Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar.
Sturm College of Law Chair in Modern Learning
Professor
Roberto L. Corrada is Professor of Law at the University of Denver Sturm College of Law, where he teaches employment and labor law, contracts, administrative law, and race and the law. He is author of articles in the field of labor, civil rights, and employment discrimination law, particularly in the areas of religious discrimination and employment arbitration. Professor Corrada has published articles in numerous law reviews, including the University of Houston, Denver, and Miami Law Reviews, the La Raza Law Review, the Villanova Law Review, and the Berkeley Journal of Employment and Labor Law. He is a member of the Labor Law Group and has casebooks in Employment Discrimination Law and forthcoming in Labor Law, in addition to a casebook in Administrative Law. Prior to joining the law faculty, Professor Corrada was a labor attorney with the Washington, D.C. office of Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld where he worked on matters involving Continental Air Lines, Burlington & Northern Railroad, Purolator Courier, GTE, and Albertson’s, among others. Professor Corrada has served in a variety of administrative roles, including as Associate Dean of the University of Denver College of Law (2005), chair of the board of the ACLU of Colorado (1998) and chair of the Association of American Law Schools’ Section on Labor & Employment Law (2002). Professor Corrada has won various honors and awards, including the University of Denver Distinguished Teaching Award (2006), the University of Denver Donald & Susan Sturm Professorship for Excellence in Teaching (2003-2005), the Edward Sherman Award (presented by the American Civil Liberties Union of Colorado to the Outstanding Cooperating Attorney of the Year, in 1997), the Colorado Hispanic Bar Association Community Service Award (1997), and the University of Denver College of Law Hughes Research Professorship (1996). Professor Corrada graduated from the Catholic University of America Columbus School of Law in 1985, where he served as editor-in-chief of the law review.
Dean, Sturm College of Law
Professor
A former partner in the employment litigation group at Davis, Graham & Stubbs, and a graduate of Harvard College and Yale Law School, Professor Katz’s approach to employment law is practical, as well as theoretical. He has taught, written, and lectured on Employment Law for more than 15 years. He has also litigated and tried several high profile cases, including a sexual and racial harassment case against a small town sheriff’s department that was featured repeatedly on 9 News and DateLine NBC.
His current scholarship focuses on the role of intent and causation in anti-discrimination law and one of his recent articles, “The Fundamental Incoherence of Title VII: Making Sense of Causation in Disparate Treatment Law,” appeared in the Georgetown Law Journal. Professor Katz’s other employment related law review articles have appeared in the Yale Law Journal, Notre Dame Law Review, Hastings Law Journal, and Indiana Law Journal. His work on constitutional law has appeared in Constitutional Commentary, a peer-reviewed journal.
While in law school, Professor Katz was co-Editor-in-Chief of the Yale Law Journal. After law school, he clerked for Judge David Ebel on the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals.
Assistant Professor
Raja Raghunath has been the Civil Rights Clinical Fellow of the Student Law Office since 2007. Before joining the faculty, he was an associate at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton in New York, where his practice focused primarily on securities enforcement and bankruptcy litigation matters. His pro bono practice included federal wage and hour litigation on behalf of undocumented immigrant restaurant workers and guardianship proceedings in New York State Family Court. Prior to this, he worked as a labor lawyer at Gilbert & Sackman in Los Angeles, representing unions, unionized workers, and jointly-trusteed labor-management employee benefit funds in federal and state administrative and judicial forums. He has written in the areas of labor and administrative law.
Director, Civil Rights Clinic
Associate Professor
Laura Rovner received her J.D. from Cornell Law School, her B.A. magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Pennsylvania, and an LL.M. in Advocacy from Georgetown University Law Center. At Georgetown, Professor Rovner was a clinical teaching fellow in the Institute for Public Representation, where she supervised students on civil rights cases involving race, gender, disability and national origin discrimination. She was then awarded an Equal Justice Fellowship from Equal Justice Works (formerly the National Association for Public Interest Law) to work with a national organization representing the interests of deaf and hard of hearing people. Following this fellowship, Professor Rovner taught at Syracuse University College of Law, where she served as the Director of the Public Interest Law Firm, a clinical legal education program with a focus on civil rights and public interest litigation, and most recently, was the Director of Clinical Education and founder of the Civil Rights Project at the University of North Dakota School of Law. At the University of Denver College of Law, Professor Rovner founded and directs the Civil Rights and Disability Law Clinic.
Lawyering Process Professor
Nantiya Ruan teaches legal research and writing (“Lawyering Process”) at the Sturm College of Law, and teaches Law & Society courses at the Women’s College at DU. Professor Ruan attended the University of Denver College of Law as a Chancellor’s Scholar, and received her M.S.W. from DU as well.
Professor Ruan clerked for the U.S. Magistrate Judge Ronald L. Ellis in the Southern District of New York, as well as for Colorado Supreme Court Justice Rebecca Love Kourlis. Upon completion of her clerkships, Professor Ruan represented employees in national employment discrimination and wage and hour class actions, and individuals in other employment matters.
Professor Ruan’s employment-related scholarship will soon be published in an upcoming issue of the Employee Rights & Employment Policy Journal.
Associate Dean of Institutional Diversity and Inclusiveness
Associate Professor
Catherine Smith teaches Torts and Employment Discrimination. After graduating from the University of South Carolina School of Law, Professor Smith clerked for the late Chief Judge Henry A. Politz of the U. S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and for U.S. Magistrate Judge William M. Catoe Jr. In both clerkships she prepared bench memorandum and draft opinions in a wide range of employment related matters. Upon completion of her clerkships, Smith served as a two-year legal fellow at the Southern Poverty Law Center where she practiced civil rights law.
Before joining the faculty at the University of Denver, Professor Smith was an Assistant Professor at the Thurgood Marshall School of Law from 2000 to 2004. Her research interests include torts and race discrimination.
Smith’s employment related scholarship has been published in the Virginia Journal of Social Policy and Law.