Biography
Professor Hoopes’s research examines how legal and political institutions serve marginalized
populations, with a focus on noncitizens. Her work has been published or is forthcoming
in Law & Social Inquiry, the Berkeley Journal of International Law, the Hastings Law
Journal, and Cambridge University Press.
At Pepperdine, Professor Hoopes teaches administrative law, remedies, and ethical
lawyering. She also co-directs the Wm. Matthew Byrne, Jr. Judicial Clerkship Institute.
Professor Hoopes joined the Pepperdine law faculty in 2022 from the UC Berkeley School
of Law, where she was the Director of Research at the Berkeley Judicial Institute.
She previously served as a United States Supreme Court Fellow at the Federal Judicial
Center in Washington, D.C. Prior to the fellowship, she clerked for the Honorable
John T. Noonan of the Ninth Circuit, and was a litigation associate at Skadden, Arps,
Slate, Meagher & Flom, LLP. Professor Hoopes earned a Ph.D. from the Jurisprudence
and Social Policy program at UC Berkeley, and graduated magna cum laude from Cornell
Law School, where she was an editor of the Cornell Law Review. She earned her Bachelor’s
of Science magna cum laude from the University of Notre Dame.
Education
- Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
- J.D., Cornell Law School, magna cum laude
- B.S., University of Notre Dame, magna cum laude
Forthcoming Articles
- Mary S. Hoopes, Resisting Precarious Labor, 60 Georgia L. Rev. (forthcoming 2025)
- Mary S. Hoopes, The Future of Virtual Proceedings in the Federal Courts, 101 Indiana
L. J. (forthcoming 2025) (with Jeremy Fogel)
Articles
- Mary S. Hoopes, Law Clerk Selection and Diversity: Insights From Fifty Sitting Judges
of the Federal Courts of Appeals, 137 HARVARD L. REV. 588 (2023) (with Jeremy Fogel
and Goodwin Liu) SSRNHeinOnline
- Mary S. Hoopes, Regulating Marginalized Labor, 73 HASTINGS L.J. 1041 (2022) SSRNHeinOnline
- Mary S. Hoopes, Learning to Detain Asylum Seekers and the Growth of Mass Immigration
Detention in the United States, 46 L. & SOC. INQUIRY 993 (2021) (with Smita Ghosh)
SSRN
- Mary S. Hoopes, Judicial Deference and Agency Competence, 39 BERKELEY J. INT’L L.
161 (2021) SSRNHeinOnline
Book Chapters
- Mary S. Hoopes, Judicial Decision-Making and Implicit Bias (with Jeremy Fogel and
Jason Cantone), in HANDBOOK OF THE PSYCHOLOGY OF LEGAL DECISION-MAKING, Cambridge
Univ. Press (forthcoming 2022)
- Mary S. Hoopes, Attorney-Client Privilege and Work Product Doctrine-Protecting the
Privilege: What Is It, Who Has It, and What Happens If You Waive It Good-Bye? (with
Christina M. Tchen), in SINCLAIR ON FEDERAL CIVIL PRACTICE, Practising Law Institute
(2004-) Worldcat
- Mary S. Hoopes, Attorney-Client Privilege and Work Product Doctrine in Internal Investigations
(with Christina M. Tchen), in SINCLAIR ON FEDERAL CIVIL PRACTICE, Practising Law Institute
(2004-) Worldcat
Presentations
- Mary S. Hoopes, Law Clerk Diversity, Central District of California Judicial Conference,
Ojai, CA, Nov. 2022
- Mary S. Hoopes, Law Clerk Diversity, UC Berkeley School of Law, March 2022
- Mary S. Hoopes, Regulating Marginalized Labor, Law & Society Association, Chicago,
IL, May 2021 (virtual)
- Mary S. Hoopes, Learning to Detain Asylum Seekers, Law & Society Association, Denver,
CO, May 2020 (virtual)
- Mary S. Hoopes, Disparities in Appellate Review of Asylum Law, United States Judicial
Conference, Committee on Federal and States Issues. Williamsburg, VA, June 2018
- Mary S. Hoopes, Disparities in Appellate Review of Asylum Law, United States Supreme
Court, Washington, D.C., Feb. 2018
- Mary S. Hoopes, Disparities in Appellate Review of Asylum Law, Legal Academia Workshop
(invited), University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN, April 2017
- Mary S. Hoopes, Religious Claims in Asylum Appeals, Western Political Science Association.
Los Angeles, CA, May 2014
- Mary S. Hoopes, Appellate Review of Religious Asylum Claims, Religious Exchange Scholars
Conference, University of California, Berkeley, CA, May 2012
- Mary S. Hoopes, Evaluating a Recent Proposal to Create Article I Immigration Courts,
Immigration Law Teacher’s Conference, DePaul University College of Law, Chicago, IL.
May 2010
