Douglas L. Donoho

Douglas L. Donoho is a tenured Professor of Law at Nova Southeastern University's Shepard Broad College of Law, where he has taught since 1989 and received tenure in 1994. He teaches courses including Constitutional Law, International Human Rights, International Business Transactions, and Torts, and has taught abroad in Venezuela, Costa Rica, and Barcelona, Spain. He serves as a faculty advisor for the ILSA Journal of International and Comparative Law and the International Law Society.

• Education: J.D., cum laude, Rutgers University (Camden), 1981; LL.M., Harvard Law School, 1989

His research focuses on international human rights, constitutional law, and legal education. He has authored books on International Human Rights (2016, 2017) and International Business Transactions (2014, 2018), and contributed to journals like Stanford, Michigan, and Georgia International Law Journals. His scholarship explores human rights enforcement, democratic legitimacy, and water access as a human right.

He has engaged in human rights practice, representing asylum claimants, Chilean victims, and Venezuela's labor union in cases before U.S. courts and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. He is a member of the New York and California bars.

Professor Donoho is married to Melissa Minsk Donoho, an NSU graduate and Chief Assistant at the Florida Regional Conflicts Counsel Office, and has three children: Madison, Quinn, and Ailish. He is also working to establish a death penalty resource center for Florida capital case lawyers.