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Professor Donald Tibbs 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


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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