New Lecture Series Established in Memory of Prof. Katz '70

The Katheryn D. Katz '70 Lecture Fund has been established to honor the late Professor Emerita Katheryn D. Katz '70, the first permanent Kate Stoneman Chair in Law and Democracy.

Professor Katz was a pioneer in legal education, teaching the nation's first domestic violence course. Upon her passing two years ago, donations from family, friends and colleagues in her memory established the fund to underwrite the new lecture series. Professor Katz's daughter Elizabeth "Betsy" Katz and son Professor Michael Katz, along with his wife Jennifer M. Hobart, worked to establish the fund.

The new lecture series will begin next year and focus on the family law topics Professor Katz made central to her teaching: domestic violence, gender and the law, children and the law, reproductive rights and inequality. Its establishment marks the 20th Anniversary of Kate Stoneman Day at Albany Law School. A recent article in the Albany Law Review by Professors Mary Lynch and Melissa Breger titled "Kate  Stoneman to the Kate Stoneman Chair: Feminist Waves and the First Domestic Violence Course at a United States Law School" captures the significance of Katz' work