John J. Donohue III is the Leighton Homer Surbeck Professor of Law. He 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. Before joining Yale Law School, he was a chaired professor at both Northwestern Law School and Stanford Law School. He recently published Employment Discrimination: Law and Theory. Among his major articles are: Uses and Abuses of Empirical Evidence in the Death Penalty Debate (with Justin Wolfers), Shooting Down the ‘More Guns, Less Crime’ Hypothesis (with Ian Ayres), and The Impact of Legalized Abortion on Crime (with Steven Levitt). Professor Donohue is a graduate of Hamilton College and he received his J.D. from Harvard and a Ph.D. in economics from Yale.

Education
Ph.D. (Economics), Yale, 1986
J.D., Harvard, 1977
B.A., Hamilton College, 1974

Courses Taught
Empirical Law and Economics
Law, Economics and Organization
Torts