[1] He is the director of the Berkeley Center on Comparative Equality and Anti-Discrimination Law and the faculty co-director of the pro bono program.
[25] Oppenheimer is a member of the American Law Institute and the advisory committee of the European Union Rewiring project on gender equality.
[31][32] Oppenheimer is best known for his expertise and publications on comparative discrimination law and U.S. civil rights history, including the origins of diversity policies.
He has filed amicus curiae briefs in the California, United States and Japanese Supreme Courts and in the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (regarding the fatal beating of Anastasio Hernandez Rojas by U.S. border agents).
[43][40] In 2011, Oppenheimer founded the Berkeley Center on Comparative Equality and Anti-Discrimination Law, which includes over 1000 scholars, advocates, and activists from every continent except Antarctica.
[2] Under his direction, the center has facilitated the publication of webinars, books, and conferences by bringing together scholars and advocates from around the world focused on equality law.
[49] His co-authored Whitewashing Race: The Myth of a Color-Blind Society, won the 2004 Benjamin L. Hooks outstanding book award.