Donald Jones, Professor of Law, is a Baltimore native and a graduate of the New York University School of Law. He teaches Constitutional Law, Criminal Procedure, and Employment Discrimination at the law school.

Prior to joining the faculty at the University of Miami in 1988, Professor Jones served as a Reginald Heber Smith fellow at Legal Services in Baltimore, Maryland, and later as a Clinical Instructor at the Antioch School of Law in Washington, D.C. Subsequently, Professor Jones served as Senior Trial Attorney for the United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

Professor Jones' numerous articles on the civil and political rights of minorities appear in leading legal journals. These include Darkness Made Visible: Law, Metaphor, and the Racial Self in the Georgetown Law Journal; No Time for Trumpets: Title VII, Equality and the Fin de Siecle in the University of Michigan Law Journal; The Death of the Employer: Image, Text, and Tile VII in the Vanderbilt Law Journal and "We're All Stuck Here For A While: Law and the Social Construction of the Black Male in The Journal of Contemporary Law. His essays also appear in books including Chapter 13 of Critical White Studies: Looking Behind the Mirror (1997) and an essay on Dred Scott in Michael Higgenbotham's Race and the Law (2003). Most recently Professor Jones published Race, Sex, and Suspicion: The Myth of the Black Male (Praeger2005).