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12 May 2017, 12:45 pm
We will continue to do so.[17]Civil society became more vocally critical of the UNGP project after 2012,[18] as did some influential legal academics.[19] Some thought that this criticism would be the basis for efforts to guide the operationalization of the UNGP.[20] Instead, this criticism ultimately became a call for a comprehensive treaty on business and human rights shortly after the UNGP endorsement, one built around the core group of civil society that had been most critical of the UNGP… [read post]
10 Apr 2017, 5:56 am by Staci Zaretsky
[Reuters] * Remember Shon Hopwood, the bank robber who won a SCOTUS case as a jailhouse lawyer, went to law school, and clerked for the D.C. [read post]
27 Feb 2017, 12:57 pm
Young, 'The Common Law'" and "Shon Hopwood, 'Unnecessary Imprisonment and the Need for Sentencing Reform.'" [read post]
20 Feb 2017, 9:15 am by CrimProf BlogEditor
Shon Hopwood (Georgetown University Law Center) has posted (Book Review) Caught: The Prison State and the Lockdown of American Politics, by Marie Gottschalk (Journal of Legal Education, Volume 66, Number 2, (Winter 2017)) on SSRN. [read post]
9 Dec 2016, 12:45 pm
Access the audio of Shon Hopwood's Fourth Circuit oral argument on Wednesday: Via this link (29.3 MB mp3 audio file). [read post]
26 Sep 2016, 5:04 am by CrimProf BlogEditor
Shon Hopwood has posted Clarity in Criminal Law (American Criminal Law Review, Forthcoming) on SSRN. [read post]
18 Sep 2016, 4:19 am by SHG
Shon Hopwood calls for the courts to refuse to be complicit in sloppy lawmaking. [read post]
24 Jun 2016, 6:47 am by Kimberly West-Faulcon
”   In fact, showing that facts ruled the day in Fisher II, Kennedy enlists the historical fact that the Fifth Circuit’s invalidation of the race-conscious component of UT Austin’s admissions policy in a 1996 anti-affirmative action case, Hopwood v. [read post]
8 Apr 2016, 6:32 am
A function check by Officer Hopwood showed the gun was operable. [read post]
4 Apr 2016, 7:23 pm
In his Hopwood Lecture, entitled “Writers and Their Songs,” Kennedy commented on a necessary pivotal shift for a journalist who wants to become a novelist, “The fiction writer who puts little or no value on yesterday, or the even more distant past, might just as well have Alzheimer’s disease; for serious fiction, especially novelistic work, has time as its essence and memory as its special tool” (Riding the Yellow Trolley Car 34). [read post]
4 Jan 2016, 6:29 am by Ezra Rosser
Meanwhile, the plaintiffs in affirmative action cases like Grutter, Gratz, Hopwood and Fisher are often popularly perceived as socioeconomically disadvantaged whites who pitted the interests of that group against racial and ethnic minorities. [read post]
28 Dec 2015, 4:58 pm
" The paper that Mann's post is discussing -- "Seasonal Affective Disorder: Clerk Training and the Success of Supreme Court Certiorari Petitions" by William Blake, Hans Hacker, and Shon Hopwood -- can be accessed online via SSRN. [read post]
13 Dec 2015, 6:53 pm by Omar Ha-Redeye
A different finding emerged in 1996 in Hopwood v. [read post]