Catherine Fisk is the Barbara Nachtrieb Armstrong Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley. She is also the founding Faculty Director of the Berkeley Center for Law and Work. She teaches and writes on the law of work, civil procedure, and the legal profession using primarily the methods of legal history and doctrinal analysis, with occasional collaboration with empirical social scientists and scholars in the humanities. She is the author of two monographs and four law casebooks and has two more monographs in press.

She has been involved in the Law & Society Association for her entire academic career, beginning when she attended the LSA summer institute for junior scholars in 1993. She served on the LSA Board of Trustees (2006-2009), an ad hoc committee that developed the anti-harassment and non-discrimination policy (2018), the Graduate Student Workshop Committee (2009-10), the Nominating Committee (2004-05), and twice chaired the Willard Hurst Book Prize Committee (2013-14, 2003-04). She has also performed similar service for other learned societies, including the American Society for Legal History, the Labor Law Group, and the Association of American Law Schools.