Biography
Kamina Pinder joined the Emory faculty in 2016. She is the director of academic excellence and a professor of practice. Pinder teaches Survey of Integrated Legal Concepts Contracts, Remedies, Introduction to Legal Analysis, Introduction to Legal Advocacy, Legal Profession, and Law and Legal Professionals. She has taught in several law and business schools in the areas of legal writing, contracts, professional ethics, ethical issues in healthcare, remedies, case settlement negotiation, bar prep, and externship. Pinder is also a bar review lecturer in the subject of professional responsibility.
Pinder recently published A 1L Guide to Legal Writing (Carolina Academic Press); she also co-authored an interactive study aid entitled Practice Perfect on Contracts (Aspen Publishing). Her scholarship has been published in the University of Louisville Law Review, Stanford Journal of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, Amsterdam Law Forum, Journal of Law and Education, and the Georgetown Journal of Law and Education. Pinder practiced in the Office of the General Counsel for the United States Department of Education, where she served as legal counsel to a number of federal grant programs.
Since coming to Emory Law, Pinder has been awarded the Inaugural Provost’s Distinguished Teaching Award for Excellence in Graduate and Professional Education and the Professor of the Year, presented by the Emory Black Law Students’ Association. She serves as the director of the Emory Law Professionalism Program. Her daughter, Spencer Jack, is currently a sophomore at Emory College.
Publications
The 1L Guide to Legal Writing (Carolina Academic Press 2024).
Practice Perfect for Contracts: an interactive study aid for Contracts. (Aspen Publishing 2023).
“Do as I Teach Not as I Do: For Whom Are Law Schools Trustees?,” 55 U. Louisville L. Rev. 323 (2017).
“Reconciling Race-Neutral Strategies and Race-Conscious Objectives: The Potential Resurgence of the Structural Injunction in Education Litigation,” 9 Stan. J.C.R. & C.L. 247 (2013).
“360 Degrees of Segregation: A Historical Perspective of Segregation-era School Equalization Programs in the Southern United States,” (co-authored with Evan R. Hanson) vol. 2 no. 3 Amsterdam L.F. 49 (2010).
“De Jure, De Facto, and Déjà vu All Over Again: An Evaluation of the Modern School Finance Reform Movement Through the Historical Lens of Georgia’s Segregation-Era School Equalization Program,” (co-authored with Evan R. Hanson) 3 J. Marshall L.J. 165 (2010).
“Federal Demand and Local Choice: Safeguarding the Notion of Federalism in Education Law and Policy,” 39 J.L. & Educ. 1 (2010).
“Using Federal Law to Prescribe Pedagogy: Lessons Learned from the Scientifically-Based Research Requirements of No Child Left Behind,” 6 Geo. J. L. & Pub. Pol’y 47 (2008).
“Street Law: Twenty-Five Years and Counting,” 27 J.L. & Educ. 211 (1998).