B.Sc. : 1958, Lucknow University, Lucknow, India, LL.B. : 1960, Lucknow University, Lucknow, India & LL.M. (Specialisation in Criminal Law and Tort Law branch.): 1962, Lucknow University, Lucknow, India.

Prof. B.B. Pande is the Visiting Professor at the Dr. Ram Manohar Lohiya National Law University,Lucknow. Prof. Pande's scholarship intersects the sociology of punishment, criminal law and procedure, and criminology. He has served Jabalpur University in 1962 as a teacher and joined Delhi University as Professor of Law in 1988.

As a Consultant (Research), Prof. Pande worked with the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), New Delhi from December 2005 till December 2007. He was awarded Fellowship by the Max Planck Institute of International and Foreign Penal Law, Freiburg, Germany in 1988, 1992, 1995 and 1997. He is the recipient of Senior Social Scientist Award (1995), and the Kumarappa Reckless Award (2002) from the Indian Society of Criminology in 2003.

He has been Member of several Advisory Committees and was also UNDP Expert Consultant to the Rule of Law and Reform of the Judiciary projects of Kingdom of Nepal since 2000. He has been the Visiting Professor at University of Dar es Salam, Tanzania (East Africa) 1981-83, University of Cardiff, Wales (1998), University of Hongkong (1996). His areas of specialization include: Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, Law of Evidence, Criminology, Juvenile Justice, Human Rights and Jurisprudence.