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Mary S. Hoopes

Mary S. Hoopes

Associate Professor of Law
Caruso School of Law
Curriculum Vitae

Biography

Professor Hoopes’s research examines how legal and political institutions serve marginalized populations in two strands of research. One focuses on noncitizens and studies the impact of laws and policies on asylum seekers and low-wage immigrant workers, including farmworkers. Drawing on her experience at the Federal Judicial Center and the Berkeley Judicial Institute, the other focuses on the federal courts and has examined diversity in law clerk hiring, implicit bias in judicial decisionmaking, and the impact of the pandemic on the courts. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in the Georgia Law Review, Harvard Law Review, Indiana Law Journal, UC Law Journal, Law & Social Inquiry, the Berkeley Journal of International Law, and Cambridge University Press.

At Pepperdine, Professor Hoopes has taught administrative law, remedies, contracts, and ethical lawyering. She also 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) SSRN
  • Mary S. Hoopes, The Future of Virtual Proceedings in the Federal Courts, 101 Indiana L. J. (forthcoming 2025) (with Jeremy Fogel) SSRN

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, The Asymmetric Effects of Migration Policy Change, Law & Society Association. Chicago, IL, June 2025.

  • Mary S. Hoopes, The Asymmetric Effects of Migration Policy Change, Immigration Law Scholars Conference, Ohio State University College of Law, May 2025.

  • Mary S. Hoopes, Resisting Precarious Labor, George Washington Law Faculty Workshop, March 2025.

  • Mary S. Hoopes, The Asymmetric Effects of Migration Policy Change, Center for Study of Law & Society, Berkeley Law, January 2025.

  • Mary S. Hoopes, Resisting Precarious Labor, Junior Labor Scholars Workshop, Cornell University, November 2024.

  • MaryS. Hoopes, Diversity and the Supreme Court: An Examination of the Bench and Bar, Emory Law School, September 2024.

  • Mary S. Hoopes, Resisting Precarious Labor, Law & Society Association, Denver, Co, June 2024.

  • Mary S. Hoopes, Do Restrictive Asylum Policies Discourage Migration? Immigration Law Scholars Conference, University of Minnesota, May 2024.

  • Mary S. Hoopes, Law Clerk Selection and Diversity, Faculty Workshop, University of Kentucky School of Law, October 2023.

  • Mary S. Hoopes, Law Clerk Selection and Diversity, Center for Study of Law & Society, Berkeley Law, September 2023.

  • Mary S. Hoopes, Law Clerk Selection and Diversity, Tenth Circuit Judicial Conference, Santa Fe, NM, September 2023.

  • Mary S. Hoopes, Regulating Precarious Labor, Law & Society Association, San Juan, Puerto Rico, May 2023.

  • 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

Areas of Expertise

  • Immigration
  • Federal Courts