SCOTUS 101: From Robbing Banks to Teaching Criminal Law

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SCOTUS 101: From Robbing Banks to Teaching Criminal Law

Apr 30, 2019 1 min read
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Former Legal Fellow and Appellate Advocacy Program Manager

Elizabeth Slattery researches and writes on the rule of law, separation of powers, civil rights, and other constitutional issues.
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In this week’s episode of SCOTUS 101, Elizabeth Slattery briefly hits SCOTUS headlines before diving into a recent interview with bank-robber-turned-law-professor Shon Hopwood. He shares about his experience writing cert. petitions from prison, clerking for Judge Janice Rogers Brown, and meeting Kim Kardashian.

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