18/01/2018
Visiting Berkeley law Professor David B. Oppenheimer will be talking Wednesday March 7 from 2 to 4 pm in the Amphitheatre Descartes in the Sorbonne Centre (17, Rue de la Sorbonne, 75005 Paris) :
"Donald Trump and the Enforcement of Anti-Discrimination Law: Why Trump May Fail in His Goal of Dismantling the Employment Rights of Minorities and Women"
https://lnkd.in/eQYjcJ2
Our guest, David B. Oppenheimer, is Clinical Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Student Initiated Legal Services Projects at Berkeley Law, where he teaches Civil Procedure, Evidence, and Comparative Equality & Anti-Discrimination Law. He is a co-author of Comparative Equality & Anti-Discrimination Law (2nd edition 2017) (co-authored with Sheila Foster, Sora Han and Richard Ford), the first U.S. textbook on comparative anti-discrimination law. 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. Other recent books include an edited volume on the importance of dissenting judicial opinions, and teaching materials for Civil Procedure and Trial Advocacy.
David B. Oppenheimer is a Clinical Professor of Law. Following his graduation from Harvard Law School, Professor Oppenheimer clerked for California Chief Justice Rose Bird. He then worked as a staff attorney for the California Department of Fair Employment and Housing, prosecuting discrimination cas...