David B. Oppenheimer

David B. Oppenheimer is a Clinical Professor of Law, the Director of the Berkeley Center on Comparative Equality and Anti-Discrimination Law, and the Faculty Co-Director of the Pro Bono Program at Berkeley Law. He was the founding director of the Berkeley Law Employment Discrimination Law Clinic. He is the author of numerous books, book chapters, web courses and articles on anti-discrimination law, comparative equality law and civil rights history, and has lectured on anti-discrimination law at scores of universities around the world. Professor Oppenheimer has litigated sexual harassment, pay equity and other forms of sex discrimination cases, as well as cases of race discrimination, ethnicity discrimination, disability discrimination, religious discrimination, and age discrimination, and has filed amicus curie briefs in the California, United States and Japanese Supreme Courts. He earned a juris doctor degree from Harvard University. He is a member of the California and United States Supreme Court bars, and the American Law Institute.

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Juliane Kokott

Prof. Dr. Dr. Juliane Kokott, LL.M., S.J.D., holds the position of Advocate General at the Court of Justice of the European Union. Since October 2003, she has been responsible for approximately 1300 cases and has delivered around 600 opinions, including opinions in cases concerning Gender and Law e.g. equal pay, surrogate motherhood, head scarfs and same sex families (cf. cases C‑19/02; C‑220/02; C‑313/02; C‑116/06; C‑231/06; C‑236/09; C‑356/09; C‑167/12; C‑157/15; C‑443/15; C‑558/17 P; C‑93/19 P; C‑223/19; C‑490/20). Prior to joining the Court, Advocate General Kokott was a professor at the universities of Augsburg, Heidelberg, Düsseldorf and St. Gallen, an interim professor at the University of Mannheim and a visiting professor at Berkeley Law. Furthermore, she was a Deputy Judge for the Federal Government at the Court of Conciliation and Arbitration of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) and a Deputy Chairperson of the Federal Government’s Advisory Council on Global Change (WBGU). Advocate General Kokott is a graduate of the universities of Bonn, American University/Washington D.C., Heidelberg and the Harvard Law School. She has authored, co-authored and co-edited a broad variety of publications on European law and public international law, including e.g. Freedom of Religion and Gender Equality (2014 in German, with Ute Mager); Shaping Society under the Influence of Fundamental and Human Rights – Contributions to the Interdisciplinary Conference of the Association of the Auditors of the International Academy of Constitutional Law (2001 in German and French, with Beate Rudolf); The ECHR and the CJEU – between Social Engineering and Merely Applying the Law in Matters of Gender Equality (in French, with Judith Schamell), in: Dialogues between Judges 2020; The Status of Women through the Prism of the Case Law of the Court of Justice of the European Union (in French, with Jean-Marie Gardette), Revue de l’Union européenne n° 629 (2019), p. 341-344; Legal Questions on Affirmative Action in Government and Business (in German, with Patricia Egli), Aktuelle Juristische Praxis (AJP) 12 (2020), p. 1485-1497; On Equality between Men and Women – German Constitutional Law and European Community Law (in German), in: Neue Juristische Wochenschrift (NJW) 41 (1995), p. 1049-1057. Moreover, Advocate General Kokott has actively initiated and organized several high-level expert conferences and symposia.

Laura Carballo Piñeiro

Laura Carballo Piñeiro is currently working at the World Maritime University as Professor and holder of the Nippon Foundation Chair of Maritime Labour Law & Policy. She joined WMU in February 2018 and is on leave from the University of Santiago de Compostela where she is Associate Professor of Private International Law.

As a Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, she has specialized in international maritime labour law being her research published in 2015 by Springer at the Hamburg Studies on Maritime Affairs Collection edited by the International Max Planck Research School for Maritime Affairs at the Hamburg University. Gender studies are part of her research portfolio having contributed to the organizing of the Third WMU Empowering Women in the Maritime Community Conference in 2019 and being the main drafter of the Conclusions that closed the Conference. In 2020 she co-authored with Ass. Prof. Momoko Kitada a seminal socio-legal paper on Sexual harassment and women seafarers: the role of laws and policies to ensure occupational safety & health.

Professor Carballo has published in a number of international journals in English, German, Italian and Spanish. She has been visiting fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and Private International Law, Columbia Law School, the Institute of European and Comparative Law at Oxford University and UNCITRAL, and she has taught in a number of institutions in Europe and Latin America such as the Hague Academy of International Law, the Universities of Antioquia and  Medellín in Colombia and the Central University of Venezuela.

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Daniel Pérez del Prado

Daniel Pérez del Prado is an associate professor at Carlos III University of Madrid, Ph. D in Law (with honours) and also an economist. He is author of three books and several articles on different topics but frequently analysed from an interdisciplinary perspective. He is specialized in Social Law and Labour Economics.

He has participated in national and international conferences and meetings, has taken part in a number of research projects, some of them of international scope and has carried out research stays at some of most prestigious universities, such as the University of Cambridge, Aalborg University, Université Libre de Bruxelles, University of Guent, Université de Lyon 2 – Lumière, University of Leuven (KU Leuven). He is a member of the research group “Economic Changes, Labour law and new society (DTCENS), the Institute for Law and Economics at University Carlos III, the CIELO Community and the Labour Law Research Network. He is also an expert of the European Commission (EX2013D148731).

Professor Perez del Prado has extensive experience of teaching in different areas of Labour, Employment and Social Security Law, giving lectures for master and bachelor degrees and specialized seminars, both in Spanish and English.