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Donald
F. Tibbs
Associate
Professor of Law
Email: donald.f.tibbs@drexel.edu
Phone: 215-571-4773
Office: Earle Mack School of Law, Room 274
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Education
J.D., University
of Pittsburgh School of Law
LL.M., University of Wisconsin Law School
Ph.D., Arizona State University
B.S., Georgia State University
Donald Tibbs’ expertise focuses on the
overlapping issues of law, civil rights, criminal procedure,
race and punishment
and professional responsibility.
Professor Tibbs came to Drexel from Southern University Law
Center, where he was an assistant professor of law and director
of the Institute for Civil Rights and Justice. Previously, he
was a lecturer in the Department of Criminal Justice at the University
of North Carolina at Charlotte, in the School of Justice Studies
and the Department of African American Studies at Arizona State
University and in the Department of Criminal Justice at Central
Piedmont Community College in Charlotte.
The author of the forthcoming book, “Black Power, Prison
Power: Race and Legal Consciousness in the Making and Unmaking
of the Jones Case,” his publications include “Peeking
Behind the Iron Curtain: How Law ‘Works’ Behind Prison
Walls,” in the Southern California Interdisciplinary
Law Journal.
Professor Tibbs received his J.D. from the University of Pittsburgh
School of Law, where he was a semi-finalist in the Frederick
Douglas Moot Court Competition. He received the Sheila S. Skipper
Award for outstanding graduate work while pursuing his Ph.D.
in Law and the Social Sciences at Arizona State University.
After receiving his J.D., he worked as an associate
with the Law Offices of Pamela A. Hunter & Associates in
Charlotte.
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