Dr. Laura K. Donohue

Laura K. Donohue is Visiting Fellow at the Center for International Security and Cooperation and Acting Assistant Professor in the Political Science Department, where she teaches PS 113: Security, Civil Liberties, and Terrorism. Dr. Donohue's research focuses on individual rights and counterterrorism in the United States, the United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland, Israel, and Turkey. In April 2001 the Carnegie Corporation named her to the Scholars Program, awarding her two years' funding for the project: Security and Freedom in the Face of Terrorism. This work builds on research she conducted for her book, Counter-terrorist Law and Emergency Powers in the United Kingdom, 1922-2000, published in December 2000. Some articles she has written include "'Good Guy' turns Assassin," "Capital Punishment and Political Challenge," "Fear itself: counter-terrorism, individual rights, and US Foreign Relations Post 9-11", "Bias, National Security, and Military Tribunals," "Federalism and the Battle over Counter-terrorist Law: State Sovereignty, Criminal Law Enforcement, and National Security," "In Time of Need: Terrorism and the Liberal Constitution," "Temporary Permanence: the Constitutionalisation of Emergency Powers in Northern Ireland," and "The 1922-43 Special Powers Acts: Regulating Northern Ireland." Dr. Donohue received her Ph.D. in History from the University of Cambridge, England; her M.A. with Distinction in War and Peace Studies from the University of Ulster, Northern Ireland; and her B.A. with Honors in Philosophy from Dartmouth College.