Email: [email protected]
Fall, 2009
Dr. Donahue received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Santa Barbara. She graduated summa cum laude with her B.A. degree from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and also received her M.A. degree from UCSB. Her areas of expertise and interest include the Law, Criminology, Statistics, The Law of the Sea, and Urban Issues. Within criminology, she focuses mainly on white collar crime, Constitutional law, and the criminal courts. She has taught courses in London and Paris. Dr. Donahue has completed field research in Ireland and West Africa and published a book on the results.
One of her current research interests is the law of the sea. Most of her work on ocean law was completed at the United Nations Office, in the Palais des Nations, Geneva, Switzerland, which is the world repository for international law of the sea materials.
She presented a paper on the law of the sea at the Law and Society Association conference in Berlin, Germany, summer of 2007. The title of the paper was "The Law of the Sea, 1800 to 1930: The Effects of the Second Billion People Added to the Planet."
Dr. Donahue does her research aboard their boat docked in a Newport Beach marina. Her latest passion is writing mystery/thrillers.
