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Mary Hoopes

Associate Professor

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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 California Law Review, 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.

Prior to joining UC Law SF, Professor Hoopes was an Associate Professor at the Pepperdine School of Law, where she taught administrative law, remedies, contracts, and ethical lawyering and directed 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.

Education

  • University of California, Berkeley
    Ph.D.

  • Cornell Law School, magna cum laude
    J.D.

  • University of Notre Dame, magna cum laude
    B.S.

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