John J. Donohue III
C. Wendell and Edith M. Carlsmith Professor of Law

Publications & Cases

Recent Publications

Daniel E. Ho, John J. Donohue III & Patrick Leahy, Do Police Reduce Crime? A Reexamination of a Natural Experiment, in Empirical Legal Studies of Judicial Systems, Yun-Chien Chang, ed., Taipei: Institutum Iurisprudentiae, Academia Sinica, forthcoming 2013.
John J. Donohue III. What Can Be Done to Stem Gun Violence? San Francisco Chronicle, December 21, 2012.
Abhay Aneja, John J. Donohue III, Alexandria Zhang, The Impact of Right to Carry Laws and the NRC Report: The Latest Lessons for the Empirical Evaluation of Law and Policy, NBER Working Paper No. 18294, August 2012. Previously issued as Stanford Law and Economics Olin Working Paper No. 430, available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2118893.
John J. Donohue, When Will America Wake Up to Gun Violence?, CNN Opinion, July 21, 2012.
John J. Donohue, Time To Kill The Death Penalty?, The California Progress Report, June 28, 2012.
John J. Donohue. Capital Punishment in Connecticut, 1973-2007: A Comprehensive Evaluation from 4686 Murders to One Execution (2011).
John J. Donohue III, Benjamin Ewing, David Peloquin, Rethinking America's Illegal Drug Policy, in Controlling Crime: Strategies and Tradeoffs, Philip J. Cook, Jens Ludwig, and Justin McCrary, eds,, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011.
Abhay Aneja, John J. Donohue III, Alexandria Zhang, The Impact of Right-To-Carry Laws and the NRC Report: Lessons for the Empirical Evaluation of Law and Policy, 13 American Law and Economics Review 565 (2011).
John J. Donohue III, Michael Ashley Stein, Christopher L. Griffin, Jr., and Sascha Becker, Assessing Post‐ADA Employment: Some Econometric Evidence and Policy Considerations, 8 Journal of Empirical Legal Studies 477 (2011).
Eli K. Best, John J. Donohue III, Jury Nullification in Modified Comparative Negligence Regimes, 79 University of Chicago Law Review 945 (2012); Also Stanford Public Law Working Paper No. 1874466; Stanford Law and Economics Olin Working Paper No. 419.
John J. Donohue III, Benjamin Ewing, David Peloquin, Rethinking America's Illegal Drug Policy, NBER Working Paper No. 16776. (2011).
John J. Donohue III. Better Laws Might Have Helped in Tucson, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, January 13, 2011, p. B-7.
John J. Donohue III, It Takes Laws to Control the Bad Guys, Room for Debate: A Running Commentary on the News, New York Times, January 11, 2011.
Abhay Aneja, John J. Donohue III, Alexandria Zhang, The Impact of Right-To-Carry Laws and the NRC Report: Lessons for the Empirical Evaluation of Law and Policy, 5th Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Paper (2010).
John J. Donohue III, Punishment is a Cost, Not a Benefit, Review of Mark A.R. Kleiman’s When Brute Force Fails: How to Have Less Crime and Less Punishment, 47 Journal of Economic Literature 168 (2010).
John J. Donohue III, The Politics of Judicial Opposition: Comment. 166 Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics 108 (2010).
John J. Donohue, III and Justin Wolfers, Estimating the Impact of the Death Penalty on Murder, 11 American Law and Economics Review 249 (2009)
John J. Donohue, III and Steven Shavell, Introduction to the Death Penalty Symposium, 11, 2 American Law and Economics Review p. v (2009)
John J. Donohue III, Jeffrey Grogger, Steven D. Levitt, The Impact of Legalized Abortion on Teen Childbearing, 11 American Law and Economics Review 24 (2009)
John J. Donohue, III, Anti-Discrimination Law, in The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics Online, Steven N. Durlauf and Lawrence E. Blume, eds.. 2nd ed. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.