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

Publications & Cases

Recent Publications

John J. Donohue III, Discrimination in Employment, John M. Olin Program in Law and Economics Working Paper No. 161 (1998).
John J. Donohue III, James J. Heckman and Petra E. Todd, Social Action, Private Choice and Philanthropy: Understanding the Sources of Improvements in Black Schooling in Georgia, 1911-1960, John M. Olin Program in Law and Economics Working Paper No. 153 (1997).
John J. Donohue III, Executive Compensation, 3 Stanford Journal of Law, Business and Finance 1 (1997).
John J. Donohue III, Foundations of Employment Discrimination Law, Cary, NC: Oxford University Press, 1997.
Pauline Kim, John J. Donohue III, B.P.Jevan Reddy, and Sunita Parikh, Some Thoughts on Affirmative Action, 75 Washington University Law Quarterly 1590-1602 (1997).
John J. Donohue III, Some Perspective on Crime and Criminal Justice Policy, in The Crime Conundrum: Essays on Criminal Justice, edited by Lawrence M. Friedman and George Fisher. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1997.
John J. Donohue III and Peter Siegelman, Is the United States at the Optimal Rate of Crime?, A.B.F. Working Paper, No. 9404, (1995).
John J. Donohue III and Peter Siegelman, The Selection of Employment Discrimination Disputes for Litigation: Using Business Cycle Effects to Test the Priest-Klein Hypothesis, 24 Journal of Legal Studies 427-462 (1995).
John J. Donohue III, Book Review: Richard Epstein's Forbidden Grounds: The Case Against Employment Discrimination Laws, 31 Journal of Economic Literature 1477-78 (1994).
John J. Donohue III, Employment Discrimination Law in Perspective: Three Concepts of Equality (Visions of Equality: The Future of Title VII), 92 Michigan Law Review 2583-2612 (1994).
John J. Donohue III, The Effects of Joint and Several Liability on Settlement Rates: Mathematical Symmetries and Meta-Issues in the Analysis of Rational Litigant Behavior, 23 Journal of Legal Studies 543 (1994).
John J. Donohue III, Liberal Law and Economics, (Book Review: Susan Rose-Ackerman's Rethinking the Progressive Agenda) 13 Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 192-194 (1994).
John J. Donohue III, Opting for the British Rule, or, If Posner and Shavell Can't Remember the Coase Theorem, Who Will?, in Foundations of Tort Law, Saul Levmore, editor, New York: Foundation Press, 1994.
John Donohue III and James Heckman, Continuous Versus Episodic Change: The Impact of Civil Rights Policy on the Economic Status of Blacks, 29 Journal of Economic Literature 1603 (1993).
John Donohue III and Peter Siegelman, Law and Macroeconomics: Employment Discrimination Litigation Over the Business Cycle, 66 University of Southern California Law Review 709-765 (1993).
John J. Donohue III, The Effects of Fee Shifting on the Settlement Rate: Theoretical Observations on Costs, Conflicts and Contingency Fees, 54 Law and Contemporary Problems 195 (1991)
John J. Donohue III and James Heckman, Re-Evaluating Federal Civil Rights Policy, 79 Georgetown Law Journal 1713 (1991).
John J. Donohue III, Opting for the British Rule: Or, if Posner and Shavell Can't Remember the Coase Theorem, Who Will?, 104 Harvard Law Review 1093 (1991)