Between 1992 and 2007, Albertyn worked at the Centre for Applied Legal Studies (CALS), a research and litigation institute attached to the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) in Johannesburg.
[1] At the same time, President Nelson Mandela appointed her to the inaugural Commission for Gender Equality in 1997,[2] and she was hired by Wits as an associate professor of law in 1999.
[1] While she was still holding that position, in 2005, the Judicial Service Commission shortlisted her as a candidate to fill Arthur Chaskalson's empty seat on the Constitutional Court of South Africa.
Albertyn left her position at CALS at the end of April 2007,[1] but she remained a professor at Wits and also became a commissioner at the South African Law Reform Commission, where she served between 2007 and 2011.
An article by Albertyn about substantive equality, published in 2018 in the South African Journal on Human Rights, was cited in the Constitutional Court's judgement in Mahlangu v Minister of Labour.