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Faculty Publications - David B. Oppenheimer

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DAVID B. OPPENHEIMER
Associate Dean for Faculty Development and Professor of Law
B.A., University Without Walls, Berkeley; J.D., Harvard Law School

Verdicts Matter: An Empirical Study of California Employment Discrimination and Wrongful Discharge Jury Verdicts Reveals Low Success Rates For Women and Minorities, article and data sheets.

Editor
Bill of Rights series by Prometheus Books.

Books
  • Rowe v. Pacific Quad, Inc., 4th ed., (National Institute for Trial Advocacy, 2008).
  • Employment Discrimination Stories ch. 1 The Story of Green v. McDonnell Douglas (Joel Friedman, ed., Foundation Press, 2006).
  • Distinguishing Five Models of Affirmative Action in Healey & O'Brien, Race, Ethnicity, and Gender: Selected Readings (Pine Forge Press 2004).
  • Directions In Sexual Harassment Law ch. 17 Employer Liability for Sexual Harassment by Supervisors (Catharine A. MacKinnon & Reva B. Siegel, eds., Yale University Press, 2003).
  • Whitewashing Race: the myth of a color-blind society (Univ. of CA Press, 2003).
  • Workplace Harassment and the First Amendment: A Response to Professor Volokh in Paul I. Weizer, Sexual Harassment: Cases, Case Studies & Commentary (Peter Lang Publishing 2002).
  • Understanding Affirmative Action in Davis, et al. A Reader on Race, Civil Rights and American Law: A Multicultural Approach (Carolina Academic Press 2001).
Articles
  • Breves remarques sur l'importance insoupconnee de la periode d'essai au pays de l' "employment at will" (Brief remarks on the unexpected importance of probationary periods within a system of "employment at will"), 4 Revue de Droit du Travail (Delloz) 259 (2008).
  • Does US Labor Law Have a Culture of Litigation? Fevrier 2007 Revue de Droit du Travail 129 (2007).
  • Facts are essential, National Law Journal (June 11, 2007).
  • At Will Employment Under U.S. Law, 1 Revue de Droit du Travail (June 2006).
  • State's path on bench picks a model for D.C., The Recorder 4, 8 (Feb. 2, 2006).
  • Color-blind equality? A U.S. solution to what ails France -- affirmative action, SFGate.com (Nov. 18, 2005).
  • Evaluating the U.S. policy of Using Private Lawsuits to Remedy Employment Discrimination, 1 Droit et Cultures 109 (2005).
  • Deck is Stacked Against Minorities, Women in Job Bias Cases, San Francisco Daily Journal (Feb. 11, 2004).
  • Verdicts Matter: An Empirical Study of California Employment Discrimination and Wrongful Discharge Jury Verdicts Reveals Low Success Rates For Women and Minorities, 37 UC Davis Law Review 511 (2003). The article and data may be accessed here.
  • McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green Revisited: Why Non-Violent Civil Disobedience Should Be Protected from Retaliation by Title VII, 34 Columbia Human Rights Law Review 635 (2003).
  • Afterward: The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and US Law. 30 Capital Univ. L.R. 706 (2002).
  • Gender and Race Bias in Medical Treatment, 2 Journal of Gender-Specific Medicine 27 (#2, 1999) With Marjorie M. Schultz.
  • Carcieri's Self-Described 'Progressive' Critique of the ACLU on Proposition 209: A 'Conservative' Response, 39 Santa Clara Law Review 1153 (1999).
  • Rethinking Equality in the Global Society, 75 Washington University Law Quarter 1561, 1635 (1998). Transcribed Comments.
  • Introduction to Reaching for the Dream: Profiles in Affirmative Action (Coalition for Civil Rights 1998).
  • Inclusiveness, Interrelatedness, and the Affirmative Action Debate in California - Introduction to the GGU School of Law Symposium on Race Relations in America, 27 Golden Gate University Law Review 287 (1997).
  • Employer Liability for Sexual Harassment by Supervisors: A Comparison of Federal (Title VII) and California (FEHA) Law, 10 California Labor and Employment Law Quarterly 3 (#2, 1997). With Mark Vickness.
  • Trina Grillo - A Remembrance, 31 USF Law Review 965 (1997).
  • From Little Acorns Great Oaks Grow - Neil Gotanda's Contribution to the Law Permitting General and Punitive Damages in Employment Discrimination Cases, 4 Asian Law Journal, Boalt Hall of School of Law (1997).
  • Workplace Harassment and the First Amendment: A Response to Professor Volokh, 17 Berkeley Journal of Employment & Labor Law 321 (1996).
  • Understanding Affirmative Action, 23 Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly 921 (1996).
  • CCRI - An Assault on Affirmative Action & Women's Rights, 9 Contra Costa Lawyer 15 (1996).
  • "Plune v. Downtown Airport Hotel , Innovations in Teaching," Program Material, for AALS Annual Meeting Labor and Employment Law Section Meeting (1996).
  • Exacerbating the Exasperating: Title VI Liability of Employers for Sexual Harassment Committed by Their Supervisors, 81 Cornell Law Review 101 (1995).
  • Kennedy, King, Shuttlesworth & Walker: The Events Leading to the Introduction of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 29 University of San Francisco Law Review 645 (1995).
  • Affirmative Action - Fiction and Facts, 1 Common Ground: A Forum for Civil Liberties Issues 30 (1995).
  • Martin's March, 80 ABA Journal 54 (June 1994).
  • Report to the CA Department of Insurance, Anti-Discrimination Task Force, Committee on Employment Discrimination (1994).
  • Martin Luther King, Walker v. City of Birmingham, and the Letter From Birmingham Jail, 26 U.C. Davis Law Review 791 (1993).
  • Negligent Discrimination, 141 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 899 (1993).
  • National Institute for Trial Advocacy ch. Rowe v. Pacific Quad -- Problems, Teaching Notes and Casefile (3rd ed. 1993).
  • ABA National Law Student Negotiation Competition Problem for 1990-91 competition, American Bar Association (1991).
  • Distinguishing Five Models of Affirmative Action, 4 Berkeley Women's Law Journal 42 (1989).
  • Employment Discrimination and Wrongful Discharge: Does the California Fair Employment and Housing Act Displace Common Law Remedies? 23 USF Law Review 145 (1989). With M. Baumgartner.
  • Boalt Hall's Employment Discrimination Clinic: A Model for Law School/Government Cooperation in Integrating Substance and Practice, 7 Indus. Rel. L.J. 245 (1985).
  • Employment Discrimination: Rightful Place Seniority under Title VII and Section 1981: The Teamsters Roadblock May Be Only a Detour, 2 Hamline L. Rev. 15 (1979)
  • Open Account in Texas in Light of Houston Sash, 10 St. Mary's L.J 705 (1978-1979).
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