John Donohue is a law professor and economist widely known for his writings on effect of legalized abortion on crime and criticism of the More Guns, Less Crime theory of John Lott.
John J. Donohue III was born on January 30, 1953. He is a law professor at Stanford University and is well known for using empirical analysis to determine the impact of law and public policy in a wide range of areas, including arguments against the death penalty and racial discrimination by police in their law enforcement efforts. Other work by Donohue has advocated stronger efforts to stop employment discrimination, to increase school funding, and to regulate private gun ownership more heavily. Donohue rejoined the Stanford Law School faculty in 2010, and prior to that he was a Professor of Law at Yale Law School. He received his BA from Hamilton College in 1974, his JD from Harvard in 1977, and his Ph.D. in economics from Yale in 1986. In 1982, Donohue was the Democratic nominee for the Connecticut State Senate, 14th District (Milford, Orange, West Haven). [1] [2]