Catherine (KT) Albiston is Jackson H. Ralston Professor of Law and Professor of Sociology (by courtesy) at the University of California, Berkeley, where she also holds an affiliate appointment in Gender and Women’s Studies and is faculty director of the Center for the Study of Law and Society. She teaches in the Ph.D. (JSP), J.D., and undergraduate Legal Studies program at the law school.

Albiston teaches and writes about law, inequality, and social change.  Workplace inequality and public interest law are her two main areas of focus. She is the recipient of the Law & Society Association Article Prize and the Law & Society Association Dissertation Prize. She is the author of a book, Institutional Inequality and the Mobilization of the Family and Medical Leave Act: Rights on Leave (Cambridge University Press 2010), and articles in peer review journals such as Law & Society Review, Law & Social Inquiry, and the American Journal of Sociology, as well as in law reviews. In 2016, Albiston received the campus-wide Carol D. Soc Distinguished Graduate Student Mentoring Award for Senior Faculty, and in 2012-13 she was a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University. She received her Ph.D. and J.D. from UC Berkeley, and her M.A. and B.A. from Stanford University.

Albiston has been an active member of the Law and Society Association for more than 25 years. She served on the Dissertation Prize Committee, the Nominations Committee, the Kalven & Wheeler Prize Committee, the Article Prize Committee, and the Student Paper Prize committee. She also served on the Editorial Advisory Board for Law & Society Review and on the LSA Board of Trustees from 2005 to 2007. She has participated in the LSA Early Career & Graduate Student Workshop and presented on several professional development panels at LSA meetings.