Security or Freedom – The Costs of Counterterrorism

Laura K. Donohue joined Stanford Law in 2007 as the inaugural fellow of the Center for Constitutional Law. She is also a fellow at the Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC) at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford. Donohue's research focuses on constitutional law, counterterrorist law, and national security in the United States, United Kingdom, Republic of Ireland, and the Republic of Turkey, and she has written numerous articles on counterterrorism in liberal, democratic states.

Donohue earned her JD with Distinction from Stanford Law School in 2007. Prior to coming to Stanford, Donohue was a fellow at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government, where she served on the Executive Session for Domestic Preparedness and the International Security Program. In 2001 the Carnegie Corporation named her to its Scholars Program. As an acting assistant professor at Stanford’s Department of Political Science in 2002-03, Donohue directed a CISAC project for the U.S. Department of Justice/Department of State and later the Department of Homeland Security, advising government planners on domestic preparedness for radiological and biological terrorist attacks. She holds a PhD in History from the University of Cambridge and an MA with Distinction in War and Peace Studies from the University of Ulster, Northern Ireland.