Dr. Tibbs holds a law degree from the University of Pittsburgh and a PhD from the School of Justice and Social Inquiry at Arizona State University. He was a J. Willard Hurst fellow in legal history and a William H. Hastie fellow in law teaching at the University of Wisconsin where he earned his LLM. His research focuses on the legal history of the civil rights/black power eras, race and punishment, and critical race theory. He is the author of the forthcoming book From Black Power to Prison Power, which critically investigates the intersection of prisoners' rights law during the black power era.