David B. Oppenheimer is a Clinical Professor of Law.
He serves as the Faculty Co-Director of the Pro Bono Program, and the Director of the Berkeley Center on Comparative Equality & Anti-discrimination Law. The center
brings together over 800 scholars, activists, NGO workers, government anti-discrimination agency lawyers and officials, PhD candidates and other graduate students, and legal practitioners from six continents, to address the problems of systemic inequality and discrimination.
Its principal mission is to expand our understanding of inequality and discrimination through the tools of comparative legal studies, and to transfer that
knowledge from those who study inequality to those who enforce anti-discrimination law.
In Fall 2025 Professor Oppenheimer was awarded one of the Center for Portuguese’s Portugal-Berkeley Visiting Professor Program grants whichallowed him to invite Professor Nausica Palazzo, NOVA School of Law, to give a public lecture at UC Berkeley. Professor Palazzo works in the areas of family law and constitutional law as an Associate Professor at NOVA School of Law, and Director of the NOVA Centre for the Study of Gender, Family and the Law.
Read the event report here