Mary S. Hoopes

Mary S. Hoopes is an Associate Professor at the Pepperdine Caruso School of Law and the director of the Wm. Matthew Byrne, Jr. Judicial Clerkship Institute. Her work examines how legal and political institutions serve marginalized populations in two strands of research. One studies the impact of laws and policies on asylum seekers and low-wage immigrant workers. 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. Previously, she was the Director of Research at the Berkeley Judicial Institute and a United States Supreme Court Fellow at the Federal Judicial Center in Washington, D.C. 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. 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.