About Us

Mission Statement

The Berkeley Center on Comparative Equality and Anti-Discrimination Law is a group of over 800 academics, advocates, and activists from six continents working together to address the problem of discrimination and inequality.

Our Goals

To facilitate the study of comparative equality between scholars, activists, and advocates around the globe;
To nurture the work of emerging scholars and activists, and the work of scholars and activists from underrepresented groups and developing countries;
To connect the work of global legal scholars and anti-discrimination/equality body workers in enforcing anti-discrimination law;
To serve as a multinational virtual think tank on comparative equality and anti-discrimination law, seeking innovative approaches to the problem of inequality;
To host and to mentor visiting legal scholars at Berkeley Law and other host/participant universities;
To publish papers and books on comparative anti-discrimination law, sharing this information with other scholars, and with legislators, equality bodies, litigators, and jurists.
To encourage collaboration with scholars and legal practitioners working in different legal systems.

Participating and Influencing Issues of the Day

The Center has issue-focused working groups on important current topics, including Sexual Harassment/Violence; Pay Equity/Fairness; Disability Rights; Equality Rights of Immigrants and Climate Refugees; Age Discrimination; Digital Equality; Global Systemic Racism; Early Career Network; and COVID-19.

Where We Are

Universities

American University
Australian National University
Berkeley Law
Bond University
Boston College Law School
Boston University
Bucerius Law School
California Western School of Law
Cardiff University
Cardozo School of Law
Caruso School of Law
Catholic University of Louvain
Central European University
Charles University
Chicago-Kent College of Law
China University of Political Science and Law
Chonman National University
Columbia University
Complutense University of Madrid
Cornell University
CQ University
Diego Portales University
Dokuz Eylul University
Duke University
Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales
Edinburgh Napier University
Elizabeth Haub School of Law
Erasmus School of Law
Essex University
Europa University at Frankfurt
European University, Cypress
European University, Flensburg
Ewha Women’s University
Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
Fordham University School of Law
Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences
George Mason University
George Washington University
Georgetown Law
Ghent University
Golden Gate University
Hacettepe University
Hanyang University School of Law
Harvard University
Hasselt University
Hebron University
Henry Radzyner Law School
Howard University
Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin
Indiana University Robert H. Mckinney School of Law
International University College of Turin
Istanbul Bilgi University
Istanbul University
ITAM University
James Cook University
Kabarak University
Keele University
Keio University
Kellogg College
Kent Law School
King’s College London School of Law
Kisii University School of Law
Koc University Law School
Leiden University
Loyola Law School
Lund University
Maastricht University
Macquarie Law School
Masaryk University
McGill University
McMaster University
Melbourne Law School
Monash University
Nalsar University of Law
National University
National University of Ireland, Galway
National University of Singapore
National University of the Third of February
New York University
Ohio State University
Oxford Brookes University
Peking University
Pontifica Universidad Catolica, Argentina
Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro
Portsmouth Law School
Protestant University of Applied Sciences
Queen Mary University
Queen Mary, University of London
Queen’s University
Queen’s University Belfast School of Law
Queensland University of Technology
Rhodes University
Rio de Janeiro Law School
RMIT University
Ruhr-University Bochum
Rutgers University
Ryerson University
Santa Clara University
Sciences Po School of Law
Seoul National University
Seton Hall University School of Law
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Sheffield Hallam University
Soochow University School of Law
South East European University
Southern Methodist University
St. John’s Law School
Stanford Law
State University of Semarang
Stockholm University
Syracuse University
Tamil Nadu National Law School
Tel-Aviv University
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
The Free University of Brussels
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
The National University of Ireland Galway
The University of Hong Kong
The University of Melbourne
The University of Newcastle
The University of Turn
Thomas Jefferson School of Law
Trinity College, Dublin
UC Davis School of Law
UC Hastings Law
UC Santa Cruz
UCLA Law
UConn Law
Ukranian Catholic University
Umea University
Universidad Austral de Chile
Universidad de los Andes
Universidad de Palermo
Universidad del Pais Vasco
Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona
Universitat Regensburg
Universite Catholique de Louvain
Universite Libre des Bruxelles
Universite Paris Pantheon-Sorbonne
Universiteit Hasselt
University College Dublin Sutherland School of Law
University College London
University de Trento
University of Alcala
University of Amsterdam
University of Auckland
University of Bergamo
University of Bergen
University of Birmingham
University of Bocconi
University of Bologna
University of Brescia
University of Bristol Law School
University of British Columbia
University of California, Berkeley
University of California, Irvine
University of California, San Francisco
University of Cambridge
University of Canterbury
University of Cape Town, South Africa
University of Chicago
University of Chile
University of Cologne
University of Colorado Law School
University of Denver Sturm College of Law
University of Deusto
University of El Salvador, Argentina
University of Florence
University of Florida Levin College of Law
University of Frankfort
University of Groningen
University of Hafia
University of Hawaii at Manoa
University of Helsinki
University of Iceland
University of Illinois College of Law
University of International Business and Economics Law School
University of Kentucky Rosenberg College of Law
University of Lapland
University of Leeds
University of Leicester
University of Ljubljana
University of Lund
University of Massachusetts Boston
University of Miami School of Law
University of Michigan
University of Milan
University of New South Wales
University of North Carolina Law School
University of Nottingham
University of Oslo
University of Oxford
University of Pablode Olavid
University of Paris Ouest Nanterre
University of Pennsylvania
University of Pretoria
University of Prishtina
University of Redlands
University of Sao Paulo
University of South Africa
University of Southern California
University of Southern Queensland
University of Sydney
University of Tasmania
University of Technology Sydney
University of the Basque Country
University of the District of Columbia
University of the Western Cape
University of the Witwaterstrand, Johannesburg
University of Toronto
University of Trento
University of Valencia
University of Verona
University of Vienna
University of Vigo
University of Windsor
Uppsala University
Utrecht University School of Law
Vanderbilt University Law School
Vienna University of Economics and Business
Virginia Polytechnic Institue and State University
Washington University in St. Louis
Western Sydney University
Willamette University Law School
Wuhan University
Yale University
York University, Canada

Others of us can be found at government organizations, including the French and German anti-discrimination agencies, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the California Fair Employment and Housing Council, the European Commission, the United Nations and NGO’s, including the Open Society Justice Initiative.