Mr. Mrinal Satish is a Visiting Professor at NLSIU since July 2009. He is an alumnus of NLSIU and of Yale Law School. He was a member of the NLSIU faculty between 2002 and 2006.

In 2007, Mrinal joined the National Judicial Academy (NJA), Bhopal, as an Assistant Professor. The focus of his work at NJA was on adjudication, mainly in the area of criminal law. He conceptualized, organized and made presentations at various seminar, workshops and conferences for the district judiciary and judges of High Courts. Mrinal was also involved in organizing two annual retreats of the judges of the Supreme Court of India.

Mrinal has also worked on various research projects submitted to the Government, Committees appointed by the Government and NGOs, mainly in the area of criminal law. He co-authored a report studying the implementation of the Protection of Civil Rights Act, which was submitted to the Government of India by one of the Research Centres at NLSIU.

Mrinal's area of interest and specialization is criminal law. He has been working on the issue of sentencing in criminal law, an area on which he has presented papers at international conferences and is publishing as well. He is working on the issue of sentencing in sexual offences for his doctoral dissertation at Yale Law School.