John J. Donohue III
Visiting Fellow, October 11-22, 2009
Leighton Homer Surbeck Professor of Law, Yale Law School
John J. Donohue III is an economist/lawyer who has used large-scale statistical studies to estimate the impact of law and public policy in a wide range of areas from civil rights and employment discrimination law to school funding and crime control. His research has included uses and abuses of empirical evidence in the death penalty debate, addressing the hypothesis that more guns equals less crime, and the impact of legalized abortion on crime. Before joining Yale Law School, Donohue was a chaired professor at Northwestern Law School and Stanford Law School. He is the empirical editor of the American Law and Economics Review. Donohue recently published Employment Discrimination: Law and Theory. A graduate of Hamilton College, he received a JD from Harvard and a PhD in economics from Yale.
Activities
Events
- Rethinking America’s Illegal Drug Policy (Lecturer)