 | John J. Donohue III |
John J. Donohue III, newly appointed as the inaugural Leighton Homer Surbeck Professor of Law, specializes in the areas of corporate finance, employment discrimination, criminal law, law and economics, contracts, law and statistics and torts, among other subjects.
He joined the Yale faculty this summer after teaching for nearly a decade at Stanford University, where he was the William H. Neukom Professor and had served as academic associate dean for research.
Donohue is the author of "Foundations of Employment Discrimination Law," now in its second edition. He has written and lectured extensively on such topics as wrongful-discharge laws in employment, employment discrimination, the effects of gun policy on crime, the impact of legal abortion on crime and the impact of affirmative action and civil rights policy on the economic status of black Americans.
A graduate of Hamilton College, Donohue earned his J.D. from Harvard Law School and was a law clerk to Chief Justice T. Emmet Clarie of the U.S. District Court. He then earned three degrees from Yale in economics: an M.A. in 1982, M. Phil in 1984 and a Ph.D. in 1986. He worked part-time in private practice in New Haven during his years as a Yale graduate student. He joined the faculty of Northwestern University School of Law in 1986 and was named the Class of 1967 James B. Haddad Professor of Law there. In 1995, he moved to the Stanford Law School.
Donohue has held visiting professorships at Harvard Law School, the University of Virginia and the University of Chicago law schools, and was a lecturer at Japan's Toin University School of Law. He taught a summer course at the Center for the Study of American Law in China at Renmin University Law School in 1998. He has also been a fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford.
The Surbeck Professorship was established in 1998 in memory of L. Homer Surbeck of the Class of 1927, a leader of the law firm of Hughes, Hubbard and Reed. It is awarded to a professor whose scholarship and teaching focus on practical solutions to legal issues.
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