Mariam Hinds

Professor Hinds is a Clinical Associate Professor of Law at Fordham University School of Law and a Supervising Attorney in the Criminal Defense Clinic. Her scholarship focuses on criminal law, criminal procedure, race, and gender and has been published or is forthcoming in the Georgetown Law Journal, the Stanford Journal of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, and the American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy, and the Law.

Prior to joining Fordham, Professor Hinds was a Practitioner-in-Residence and served as the Acting Co-Director of the Criminal Justice Clinic at American University Washington College of Law. In the clinic, she oversaw student attorneys who represented clients charged with misdemeanor offenses or petitioning for expungement in Montgomery County District Court. She also taught a seminar entitled Criminal Defense Theory and Practice that introduced students to the ethical, legal, and practical dimensions of criminal defense practice.

Prior to law teaching, Professor Hinds was a Principal at The Wren Collective where she provided strategic advising and did policy, legislative, and communications work for elected officials, grassroots organizations, and professional athletes on criminal justice and police reform issues. Before Wren, Professor Hinds was a supervising attorney and team leader in the Criminal Defense Practice at The Bronx Defenders.

As a supervisor and team leader, Professor Hinds provided client-centered representation to indigent clients charged with misdemeanor and felony offenses, and supervised new attorneys in their first and second years of practice. She also oversaw a holistic, interdisciplinary team of attorneys, advocates, social workers, and investigators who practiced in criminal, family, immigration, and civil courts. Immediately following law school, Professor Hinds clerked for the Honorable Cheryl L. Pollak of the Eastern District of New York.

Professor Hinds received her J.D. from Stanford Law School where she was the recipient of the Gerald Gunther Prize for outstanding performance in Constitutional Law: Fourteenth Amendment and the John H. Ely Prize for outstanding performance in Juvenile Justice and Social Policy. Professor Hinds holds a B.A. in Psychology from Yale University where she graduated cum laude and with distinction in her major.