Tiffany D. Atkins is an Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Kentucky J. David Rosenburg College of Law, where she teaches Civil Procedure, Family Law, and Race and the Law. She was formerly a professor at Elon University School of Law, teaching first-year and upper-level legal writing courses. Prior to teaching, Professor Atkins was a staff attorney with Legal Aid of North Carolina, where she litigated family law, public housing law, unemployment, and educational justice cases.

As a scholar, Professor Atkins writes about—and is interested in—how law, culture, and systems impact the ability of Black people, and other people of color, to exist freely and fully in society. Her first full-length article, #FORTHECULTURE: Generation Z and the Future of Legal Education, which was published in the Michigan Journal of Race and Law, examined this within the context of law school classrooms; her latest article, These Brutal Indignities: Making the Case for Crimes Against Humanity in Black America, published in the Kentucky Law Journal, looks at the structure of domestic and international law, recognizing them as barriers to the full protection of Black human rights.

Professor Atkins has also completed a two-year Legal Method and Communication Fellowship at Elon in 2018 and was a Visiting Assistant Professor at Wake Forest Law School in 2019.