Scholarly Comments on Academic Economics

John J. Donohue

The bio below comes from a published article and may now be dated.

John J. Donohue

John J. Donohue III is an economist as well as a lawyer and is well known for using empirical analysis to determine the impact of law and public policy in a wide range of areas, including civil rights and antidiscrimination law, employment discrimination, crime and criminal justice. Before rejoining the Stanford Law School faculty in 2010, Professor Donohue was the Leighton Homer Surbeck Professor of Law at Yale Law School. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the former editor of the American Law and Economics Review and president of the American Law and Economics Association and the Society of Empirical Legal Studies. He is also a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. His email address is donohue@​law.stanford.edu.