Cambridge University Press published Professor Pinello's Gay Rights and American Law in 2003, issued his textbook, America's Struggle for Same-Sex Marriage, in 2006, and released his latest book, America's War on Same-Sex Couples and Their Families - And How the Courts Rescued Them, in 2017. His scholarship also includes "Linking Party to Judicial Ideology in American Courts: A Meta-Analysis," Justice System Journal (1999); “Location, Location, Location: Same-Sex Relationship Rights by State” (American Bar Association 2009); and "Is Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia a Homophobe?" (2005). The Department of Manuscripts and Archives at Yale University’s Sterling Memorial Library will preserve for posterity Professor Pinello's nearly 300 videotaped interviews (of same-sex couples across ten states, and of activists on both sides of the American same-sex marriage debate) conducted for his 2006 and 2017 books. He has served on the American Political Science Association's Committee on the Status of Lesbians, Gays, Bisexuals, and the Transgendered in the Profession and on the Dissertation Prize Committee of the Law and Society Association. Professor Pinello has been an external reviewer for Cambridge University Press, the Journal of Politics, Law & Social Inquiry, the Law & Society Review, the National Science Foundation, Political Research Quarterly, Routledge, and Stanford University Press. He currently serves as the secretary and trustee for the PSC-CUNY Welfare Fund, and was the John Jay chapter chair of the Professional Staff Congress of CUNY. Professor Pinello was the principal organizer of the boycott of the 2012 APSA Annual Meeting, and teaches courses on American government and politics, judicial processes and politics, and the law and politics of LGBTQ rights.