Berkeley Law Professor Catherine Fisk ’86 recently received the Miller Award at the 2025 Colloquium on Scholarship in Employment and Labor Law, held at Seton Hall School. Named for the late Paul Miller — a renowned leader in the disability rights movement and an expert on international disability rights and anti-discrimination law — the award is given to an academic who has shown “outstanding academic and public contributions to the field of labor and employment scholarship.”
Fisk, who teaches California Employment Law, Civil Procedure, Labor Law, and Legal Profession, is also a co-founder and co-faculty director of the school’s Center for Law and Work, a hub for cross-disciplinary scholarship, student engagement, and community involvement to address pressing and emerging labor and employment issues.
She’s published more than 100 articles and essays and authored several books, including California Employment Law, Working Knowledge: Employee Innovation and the Rise of Corporate Intellectual Property, 1800-1930, and Writing for Hire: Unions, Hollywood, and Madison Avenue. Fisk is at work on two forthcoming books, Speech @ Work and No Neutrals: Lawyers for the 20th Century Labor Movement.