EDUCATION
DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW, Durham, North Carolina. J.D. Degree with Highest Honors, May 1990. First in class (Willis Smith Award); Order of the Coif. Article Editor, Duke Law Journal. Most Effective Advocate Award for Trial Practice Moot Court Board (Appellate Practice). Mr. Taibi has practiced and taught law for over ten years. He has written and published extensively on subjects ranging from civil procedure to civil rights. Law School Duke University School of Law, 1990 Durham, North Carolina J.D. with Highest Honors, First in class (Willis Smith Award) Order of the Coif Article Editor, Duke Law Journal "Most Effective Advocate" Award for performance in Trial Practice Moot Court Board College Michigan State University, 1985 B.A. Urban Policy, Dean's List.

MEMBERSHIPS
North Carolina State Bar State Bar of Georgia Association of Trial Lawyers of America North Carolina Academy of Trial Lawyers National Lawyers Guild Million Dollar Advocates Forum

PUBLICATIONS
"Left" is Not Another Word for "Hip"
55 GUILD PRACTITIONER 1 (1998).

Racial Justice in the Age of the Global Economy: Community Empowerment and Global Strategy
44 DUKE LAW JOURNAL 928 (1995)

Banking Finance and Community Economic Empowerment: Structural Economic Theory, Procedural Civil Rights and Substantive Racial Justice
107 HARVARD LAW REVIEW 1463 (1994)

Environmental Justice, Structural Economic Theory, and Community Economic Empowerment
9 ST. JOHN'S JOURNAL OF LEGAL COMMENTARY 491 (1994)

Race Consciousness, Communitarianism and Banking Regulation, 1992
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS LAW REVIEW 1103

Politics and Due Process: The Rhetoric of Social Security Disability Law
1990 DUKE LAW JOURNAL 913