Mariam Hinds is an associate professor of law at the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law and directs the Criminal Defense Clinic. Her scholarship focuses on criminal law, criminal procedure, race, and gender and has been published in the Washington University Law Review, 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 the Maryland Carey Law faculty, Associate Professor Hinds was a clinical associate professor of law at Fordham University School of Law and a supervisor in the Criminal Defense Clinic. In the clinic, she oversaw students who represented clients charged with misdemeanor offenses in Manhattan Criminal Court and partnered with the Legal Aid Society’s Video Mitigation Unit to produce persuasive mitigation videos that were used in criminal and immigration proceedings to support plea negotiations, sentencing advocacy, and applications for relief from removal.
Before joining Fordham, Associate 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. She also taught the seminar Criminal Defense Theory and Practice, which introduced students to the ethical, legal, and practical dimensions of criminal defense practice.
Prior to law teaching, Associate 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, she was a supervising attorney and team leader in the Criminal Defense Practice at The Bronx Defenders.
As a supervisor and team leader, Associate 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.
She received her JD 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. She holds a BA in Psychology from Yale University where she graduated cum laude and with distinction in her major.