He was professor of Criminal Law at University of São Paulo (USP) and Minister of Justice in the government of Fernando Henrique Cardoso.

[5] Miguel is also honorary member of the 2nd Chair of the Literature Academy of São Paulo, as of the Madrid Real Academia de Jurisprudencia y Legislación.

Was nominated as State Secretary of Public Security of São Paulo, from 1983 to 1984, in the government of André Franco Montoro.

[6] Member of the Brazilian Social Democracy Party, Reale was also connected to politicians such as Franco Montoro, Mário Covas and Fernando Henrique Cardoso.

[8] In 2015, along with the jurists Hélio Bicudo and Janaína Paschoal, Reale filed an impeachment request against president Dilma Rousseff.