Natalia Ramírez Lee

Natalia Ramírez Lee joined the faculty at McGeorge School of Law in 2026 as an Assistant Professor of Law. Her scholarship examines how the law can mitigate, construct and perpetuate workplace vulnerability, including discrimination and lack of access to substantive rights, as new workplace practices emerge and norms shift. She is particularly interested in issues pertaining to workers who work in homes, such as remote and care workers. Professor Ramírez Lee teaches Torts, Employment Law and a seminar entitled “Law, Labor and Care.” 

Prior to joining McGeorge, she was the C. Keith Wingate Visiting Assistant Professor of Law at the Center for Racial and Economic Justice (CREJ) at UC Law SF where she taught Race, Racism and American Law and Law, Labor and Care. Prior to this, she was a Visiting Associate Professor of Law at Golden Gate University School of Law where she co-led the Women’s Employment Rights Clinic (WERC). At WERC, she taught a substantive employment law seminar and supervised law students who represented low-wage workers, including domestic workers, agricultural workers, retail workers, warehouse workers, and other workers, in their fight for equitable employment rights.

Professor Ramírez Lee was previously an employment litigator at two boutique employment firms in Oakland where her practice was focused on counseling and representing workers in wage and hour, retaliation, discrimination, and harassment class, representative and individual actions. Prior to her legal career, she was the Director of Human Resources for an environmental consulting company in Bogotá, Colombia. She also directed HIV prevention programs for immigrant women in New York City at the Dominican Women’s Development Center and the Latino Commission on AIDS.

Professor Ramírez Lee graduated from Berkeley Law, where she served as a Managing Editor of the Berkeley Journal of African American Law and Policy (now the Berkeley Journal of Black Law and Policy), Speakers Editor for the Berkeley Journal of Employment and Labor Law, a Coblentz Civil Rights Fellow and was awarded the American Jurisprudence Award in Constitutional Law.