Robin Runge

Robin R. Runge joined the faculty in the fall of 2025 as an Assistant Professor and Director of the Domestic Violence Law Clinic. Previously, she served on the faculty at The George Washington University Law School where she taught Domestic Violence Law, the Domestic Violence Law Project, and directed the Workers’ Rights Division of the Access to Justice Clinic. In 2022, Professor Runge assisted the Universidad Catolica de Salta, Salta Argentina develop their international human rights law clinic as a Fulbright Specialist. From 2009-2013, she was an assistant professor at the University of North Dakota School of Law where she taught in the Housing and Employment Law Clinic and Domestic Violence Law. In 2012-2013, Professor Runge lived in Beijing, China as a Fulbright Senior Research Scholar studying the legal system response to violence against women in China and assisting with the drafting of the national anti-domestic violence law that was adopted in 2015.

Professor Runge is an internationally recognized legal expert violence against women and gender-based violence and harassment in the world of work. She is the author of several law review articles and co-authored Stopping Gender-Based Violence in the World of Work (Aspen Publishing 2022) describing the landmark global campaign that led to the adoption of International Labour Organization Convention (ILO) 190 the first ever binding international treaty to eliminate violence and harassment in the world of work including gender-based violence and harassment. Ms. Runge participated in the negotiations for ILO Convention 190 in 2018 and 2019 in Geneva supporting the worker group.

Ms. Runge was the Director of Enforcement Policy and Procedures in the Wage and Hour Division and a Senior Policy Advisor in the Civil Rights Center at the U.S. Department of Labor from 2013-2017.

From 2003 to 2009, Ms. Runge directed the American Bar Association Commission on Domestic Violence where she led efforts to expand civil legal assistance for victims of domestic violence domestically and internationally. Previously, she was Deputy Director and Coordinator of the Program on Women’s Employment Rights (POWER) at the DC Employment Justice Center. Upon graduation from law school, Ms. Runge received an Equal Justice Works Fellowship and created the Domestic Violence and Employment Project at the Legal Aid Society of San Francisco (now Legal Aid at Work), one of the first programs in the country devoted exclusively to advocating for the employment rights of domestic violence victims. She is a graduate of the George Washington University Law School and Wellesley College.