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David B. Oppenheimer
Clinical Professor of Law
UC Berkeley School of Law
Berkeley, CA
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Education:
- B.A., University without Walls (Berkeley) (1972)
- J.D., Harvard Law School (1978)
Professional Bio:
David B. Oppenheimer is Clinical Professor of Law and Director of Professional Skills at Berkeley Law, where he teaches Civil Procedure, Leadership for Student Leaders, and Comparative Equality & Anti-Discrimination Law.
Professor Oppenheimer graduated from the University Without Walls (Berkeley) and Harvard Law School. He clerked for California Chief Justice Rose Bird, and thereafter worked as a staff attorney for the California Department of Fair Employment and Housing, and as Director of the Boalt Hall Employment Discrimination Clinic, before entering full time teaching.
He is the co-author of Foundations’ Simulated Casefile for Learning Civil Procedure, which he developed with three of his Teaching Assistants, Molly Leiwant (Berkeley Law 2013), Rebecca Schonberg (Berkeley Law 2012) and Sam Wheeler (Berkeley Law 2013). He has also written casefiles on Trial Practice Skills and Deposition Skills, published by the National Institute for Trial Advocacy.
Professor Oppenheimer has presented scholarly papers on discrimination law and on legal education at numerous universities, including Berkeley, Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Columbia, UCLA, Duke, Oxford, Sciences-Po Paris, Heidelberg, the European University Institute (Florence), Kings College London, the Free University of Brussels, Humboldt University Berlin, the University of Valencia, Bucerius Law (Hamburg), the University of Lyon and the University of Paris (I and X), and at the annual meetings of the Association of American Law Schools and the American Political Science Association.
His co-authored book, Whitewashing Race: The Myth of a Color-Blind Society (with M. Brown, M. Carnoy, E. Currie, T. Duster, M. Schulz & D. Wellman) (University of California Press 2003) won the 2004 Benjamin L. Hooks outstanding book award. His newest book, Comparative Equality & Anti-Discrimination Law: Cases, Codes, Constitutions & Commentary (Foundation Press 2012) (with Teaching Manual 2013) (co-authored with Sheila Foster and Sora Han) is the first U.S. textbook on comparative anti-discrimination law. Other recent books include an edited volume on the importance of dissenting opinions in the jurisprudence of the California Supreme Court.
Professor Oppenheimer has published articles on discrimination law and on clinical legal education in the Pennsylvania Law Review, the Cornell Law Review, the Journal of Legal Education, the American Bar Association Journal, the Columbia Journal of Human Rights Law, the Berkeley Women's Law Journal, the Berkeley Journal of Employment and Labor Law, the European Anti-Discrimination Law Journal, Droit et Cultures, Revue de Droit Travail, and many others, and was a contributor to MacKinnon and Siegel's Directions in Sexual Harassment Law (Yale University Press 2003), Friedman's Employment Discrimination Stories (Foundation Press 2006), and Mercat-Bruns’ Discriminations en droit du travail (Dalloz 2013).
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