Bio
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 ¾«¶«Ó°Òµ 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
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¾«¶«Ó°Òµ of California, Berkeley
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Cornell Law School, magna cum laude
J.D. -
¾«¶«Ó°Òµ of Notre Dame, magna cum laude
B.S. -
Selected Scholarship
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(with Adam Cox and David Hausman), 115 California Law Review forthcoming 2027)
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60 Georgia Law Rev. (forthcoming 2026)
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(with Jeremy Fogel), 101 Indiana Law Journal 53 2025
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(with Jeremy Fogel and Jason Cantone), In Handbook of Psychology and Legal Decision-Making, Cambridge ¾«¶«Ó°Òµ Press 2024
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(with Goodwin Liu and Jeremy Fogel), 137 Harvard Law Review 588 2023
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73 Hastings Law Journal 1041 2022
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(with Smita Ghosh), 46 Law & Social Inquiry 993 2021
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39 Berkeley Journal of International Law 161 2021