Laura K. Donohue is a Professor of Law at Georgetown Law, Director of Georgetown's Center on National Security and the Law, and Director of the Center on Privacy and Technology. She writes on constitutional law, legal history, emerging technologies, and national security law. Her most recent book, The Future of Foreign Intelligence: Privacy and Surveillance in a Digital Age (Oxford University Press, 2016), was awarded the 2016 IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law/Roy C. Palmer Civil Liberties Prize. She also has written The Cost of Counterterrorism: Power, Politics, and Liberty (Cambridge University Press, 2008); and Counterterrorist Law and Emergency Law in the United Kingdom 1922-2000 (Irish Academic Press, 2007).
Professor Donohue's articles have been published by California Law Review, University of Chicago Law Review, Stanford Law Review, University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, and other scholarly journals.
In November 2015, the U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court appointed her as one of five amici curiae under the 2015 USA FREEDOM Act.
Professor Donohue is a Life Member of the Council on Foreign Relations; an Advisory Board Member of the Electronic Privacy Information Center; and a Member of the American Bar Association's Standing Committee on Law and National Security. She is a Senior Scholar at Georgetown Law's Center for the Constitution.
Donohue obtained her AB in Philosophy (with Honors) from Dartmouth College; her MA in Peace Studies (with Distinction) from the University of Ulster, Northern Ireland; her JD (with Distinction) from Stanford Law School; and her PhD in History from the University of Cambridge, England.
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Panel: Originalism and the Fourth Amendment
22nd Annual Federalist Society Faculty Conference
The Omni Shoreham Hotel2500 Calvert St NW
Washington, DC 20008
Perfecting the Constitution - a Roundtable: Visions for the 28th Amendment
2018 National Student Symposium
Hart Auditorium, Georgetown University Law Center600 New Jersey Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20001
Panel II: Detained Suspected Terrorists: Try in Military Courts or Civilian Courts?
2014 National Student Symposium
University of Florida Levin College of Law309 Village Dr
Gainesville, FL 32611
The Fourth Amendment at the High Court: Last Term in Review and the Future
The Federalist Society's Criminal Law and Procedure and Environmental Law and Property Rights Practice Groups bring...
The Fourth Amendment at the High Court: Last Term in Review and the Future
The Federalist Society's Criminal Law and Procedure and Environmental Law and Property Rights Practice Groups bring...
Panel: Originalism and the Fourth Amendment
22nd Annual Federalist Society Faculty Conference
On January 3-4, 2020, the Federalist Society hosted its 22nd annual Faculty Conference at the...
Panel: Originalism and the Fourth Amendment
22nd Annual Federalist Society Faculty Conference
On January 3-4, 2020, the Federalist Society hosted its 22nd annual Faculty Conference at the...
Perfecting the Constitution - a Roundtable: Visions for the 28th Amendment
2018 National Student Symposium
Article V of the Constitution provides a process for amending the Constitution. However, this process...