Shon Hopwood’s unusual legal journey began prior to him attending law school and included the U.S. Supreme Court granting two petitions for certiorari he prepared. Shon’s research and teaching interests include criminal law and procedure, civil rights, and the constitutional rights of prisoners. He received a J.D. as a Gates Public Service Law Scholar from the University of Washington School of Law. He served as a law clerk for Judge Janice Rogers Brown of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.  And his legal scholarship has been published in the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties, Fordham, and Washington Law Reviews, as well as the American Criminal Law Review and Georgetown Law Journal’s Annual Review of Criminal Procedure.

Scholarship

Contributions to Law Reviews and Other Scholarly Journals

Shon Hopwood, OSJCL Symposium 2022: Transcript of Keynote Speech, 20 Ohio St. J. Crim. L. 151-162 (2022). [WWW] [W]
Shon Hopwood, Two Sides of the Same Interpretive Coin: The Presumption of Mens Rea and the Historical Rule of Lenity, 53 Ariz. St. L.J. 507-521 (2021).
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U.S. Supreme Court Briefs

Brief of Former Jailhouse Lawyers as Amici Curiae Supporting Petitioner, Herrera v. Cleveland, No. 21-771 (U.S. Dec. 8, 2021).
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Brief Amici Curiae of Criminal Law Scholars in Support of Petitioner, Concepcion v. United States, No. 20-1650 (U.S. Nov. 22, 2021).
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Brief for Professors of Criminal Law as Amici Curiae Supporting Petitioner, Wooden v. United States, No. 20-5279 (U.S. May 10, 2021).
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