David Lopez
Distinguished Professor of Practice, Arizona State University
David Lopez has committed his career to social justice. He is the founder of the Arizona State University Law’s Civil Rights, Migration, and Workplace Law Initiative. This Initiative advances justice through education, scholarship and community engagement focused on civil rights, migration and workplace law. Through interdisciplinary research, innovative teaching and public programming, the Initiative explores how law shapes access to economic and political opportunity while promoting strategies for meaningful change.
David Lopez is formerly co-Dean Emeritus, University Professor, Professor of Law and Professor Alfred Slocum Scholar at Rutgers Law School. Prior to serving as Dean, he was the partner-in-charge of Outten and Golden, a plaintiff-side civil rights/class action firm, leading the firm’s Washington D.C. Office, where he opened and managed the office, and handled complex class cases involving social media and human trafficking in private prisons.
Until December 2016, he served for six years as the General Counsel of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, and thus acted as the lead lawyer for the nation’s primary administrative agency charged with enforcing federal employment anti-discrimination laws.