Professor Michael Pinard teaches the Reentry of Ex-offenders Clinic/LTP (which he co-founded with Professor Sherrilyn Ifill), Criminal Procedure and Legal Profession. He also taught Comparative Criminal Process at the University of Aberdeen in summer 2006. Professor Pinard’s scholarship and research interests focus on the criminal process, criminal defense lawyering and issues related to the interconnections between the reentry of individuals with criminal records and the collateral consequences of criminal convictions. His most recent articles include "Collateral Consequences of Criminal Convictions: Confronting Issues of Race and Dignity," ___ N.Y.U. L. Rev. ___ (2010), "A Reentry-Centered Vision of Criminal Justice," 20 Fed. Sent. Reporter 103 (2007), "An Integrated Perspective of the Collateral Consequences of Criminal Convictions and the Reentry of Formerly Incarcerated Individuals," 86 B.U. L. Rev. 623 (2006), and "The Logistical and Ethical Difficulties of Informing Juveniles about the Collateral Consequences of Adjudications," 6 Nevada L.J. 1111 (2006).

Professor Pinard is an editor-in-chief of the Clinical Law Review and serves on the Clinical Skills Committee of the ABA’s Section on Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar. He is the past president of the Clinical Legal Education Association (CLEA). He has served as co-chair of Clinical Scholarship Committee, co-chair of the AALS Section on Litigation, and chair of the Nominations Committee for the AALS Section in Clinical Education Executive Committee.

Professor Pinard serves on the board of directors of the Public Justice Center (Baltimore) and the Jobs Opportunities Task Force (Baltimore). He is on the advisory committees of the Prisoner Reentry Institute at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and the Maryland Reentry Partnership (Baltimore). He has served as chair of the Maryland State Bar Association’s Legal Education and Bar Admission’s Committee.

Professor Pinard received his juris doctor from the New York University School of Law. He was a staff attorney with the Neighborhood Defender Service of Harlem and the Office of the Appellate Defender in New York City. From 1998-2000, he was a Robert M. Cover Clinical Teaching Fellow at Yale Law School. Prior to coming to Maryland in 2002, he was an Assistant Professor at St. John's University Law School and a Visiting Associate Professor at Washington University School of Law in St. Louis. From 2008-2009, he was a Visiting Professor at New York University School of Law.