Biography

John J. Donohue III, the former William H. Neukom Professor of Law at Stanford Law School, joined the faculty of Yale Law School in July 2004, where he is the Leighton Homer Surbeck Professor of Law. Professor Donohue 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. Professor Donohue is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Hamilton College, and received his J.D. from Harvard, and a Ph.D in economics from Yale. Prior to joining Yale, Professor Donohue was a chaired professor at both Northwestern Law School and Stanford Law School, and visited at the law schools of Harvard, Yale, University of Chicago, Cornell, and the University of Virginia. He was a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies in Behavioral Sciences in 2000-01, and edited the volume Foundations of Employment Discrimination Law, Foundation Press, 2d edition (2003).  He recently published Employment Discrimination:  Law and Theory, Foundation Press (with George Rutherglen), 2005. Donohue was selected to deliver the 2006 Rosenthal Lectures at Northwestern Law School.