Professor David Benjamin Oppenheimer

David Oppenheimer is a Clinical Professor of Law at the University of California Berkeley and Director of the Berkeley Center on Comparative Equality and Anti-Discrimination Law. https://www.law.berkeley.edu/research/berkeley-center-on-comparative-equality-anti-discrimination-law/He teaches civil procedure, evidence, and comparative equality law. He and his students draft policy papers and amicus briefs on topics of comparative equality law.

The center has over 1,000 members on six continents. It's principal mission is to facilitate cross-border collaborations among equlity scholars and activists, and to mentor the next generation of equality lawyers.

Oppenheimer graduated from the University Wthout Walls and Harvard Law School, and clerked for California Chief Justice Rose Bird. He and his wife Marcy Kates live in the East Bay, as do their two children and five grandchildren.