| NAME |
| KT Albiston |
| EMAIL |
| calbiston@law.berkeley.edu |
| MY ROLE: |
| Faculty |
| WHAT DO YOU TEACH? |
| I teach several courses in the Ph.D. program (J.D. students can take these courses too!), including Sociology of Law, Social Movements and Law, Research Design, and Gender, Law & Society. I teach Employment Discrimination in the J.D. program. I also teach undergraduate Sociology of Law and Women and the Law. |
| WHAT IS YOUR AREA OF RESEARCH OR WRITING? |
| My work focuses on the relationship between law and social change, and it is primarily empirical research based on original data. I have two major strands of research right now. One examines public interest law and the legal profession, including a study of a representative sample of more than 200 public interest law organizations in the United States, and a six school comparative study of public interest career choices among a decade of California law graduates. The second strand of research examines inequality in employment, including whether law can mitigate bias against mothers and family leave takers in the workplace, whether wage and future employment penalties for being fired vary with race, and a large scale study on whether race and gender bias operates in the hiring process for STEM faculty in major research universities. I’m also interested in how obscure procedural rules (e.g., which opinions must be officially published, what is the standard for prevailing party for the purposes of fee shifting in civil rights actions) affect civil rights enforcement and the development of civil rights law. |
| WHEN I STARTED WORKING HERE: |
| 2003 |
| WHAT I DO IN FIVE WORDS OR LESS: |
| Teach law and social science. |
| THE BEST PART ABOUT WORKING HERE: |
| The students at Berkeley are unparalleled. Not only are they exceptionally talented, they are creative, committed to civic engagement, and typically have already lived very interesting lives before arriving here. |
| SOMETHING YOU DON’T KNOW ABOUT ME: |
| Based on my internet searches, google thinks I’m a 34 year old man interested in law, statistics, baseball, and computational text analysis. All that is true except for the 34 year old man part. |
| ONE OR TWO TIPS ABOUT THINGS YOU LIKE TO DO AROUND THE BAY AREA: |
| Point Reyes National Seashore is only an hour away and one of the most amazing places on earth to hike, explore, camp, or just visit the beach. Don’t miss it. |
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