david b. oppenheimer
David B. Oppenheimer is a law professor and associate dean at Golden Gate University School of Law, in San Francisco, and an affiliated scholar with the Institute for the Study of Social Change at the University of California, Berkeley. In 2008 he will be a visiting professor at UC Berkeley and the University of Paris.
Following his graduation from Harvard Law School, he clerked for California Chief Justice Rose Bird. He then began a career as a civil rights lawyer, prosecuting discrimination cases for the State of California. He was the founding director of UC Berkeley’s Employment Discrimination Clinic.
Professor Oppenheimer has lectured on discrimination law at numerous universities, including Yale, Stanford, Columbia, Berkeley, Duke, UCLA, Oxford, Heidelberg, Free University Berlin and the University of Paris. He has published articles on discrimination law in the Pennsylvania Law Review, the Cornell Law Review, the Columbia Journal of Human Rights Law, the Berkeley Women’s Law Journal, the Berkeley Journal of Employment and Labor Law, Droit et Cultures, and many others, and was a contributor to MacKinnon and Siegel’s Directions in Sexual Harassment Law and Freidman’s Employment Discrimination Stories
His highly acclaimed co-authored book on racism, Whitewashing Race: The Myth of a Color-Blind Society (with M. Brown, M. Carnoy, E. Currie, T. Duster, M. Shultz & D. Wellman) won the 2004 Benjamin L. Hooks outstanding book award.
Professor Oppenheimer is available to speak on “Dr. King’s Legal Legacy: A Critical Assessment” and to debate on the topic of affirmative action.
For more speakers on race, see: Farai Chideya, Loretta Ross, Veronica Chambers, Meri Nana-Ama Danquah, Marcia Ann Gillespie, Irshad Manji, Catherine McKinley, Lisa Tiger, Third Wave Foundation
For more speakers on legal issues, see: Catharine MacKinnon, Linda R. Hirshman
