Ruth Colker

Ruth Colker is an American legal scholar working as the Distinguished Professor and Heck Faust Chair in Constitutional Law at the Ohio [State University Moritz College of Law]. She was awarded the 2009 Distinguished University Professor by the university.

Education

Colker earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in social studies from Radcliffe College in 1978 and a Juris Doctor from Harvard [Law School] in 1981.

Career

Colker's scholarship focuses on constitutional and disability law. She spent four years as a trial attorney in the United States Department of Justice Civil Rights Division. Prior to joining Ohio State University, she worked as a professor at the Tulane University Law School, University of Toronto Faculty of Law, University of Pittsburgh School of Law, and George Washington University Law School.