Becca Donaldson

Professor Donaldson (she/hers) is an Assistant Clinical Professor of Law and Assistant Director of the Andrew Center for Restorative Justice at Marquette University Law School.  She teaches Alternative Dispute Resolution and Interviewing & Counseling.  Her research interests include related topics on gendered violence, access to justice, and international law and human rights.

Prior to joining the Marquette Law faculty, Professor Donaldson practiced at Legal Action of Wisconsin on a team that received the Legal Innovators Award from the Wisconsin State Bar in 2018.  She clerked for the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.  She has served as a Harvard Presidential Public Service Fellow at the ACLU Women’s Rights Project, a Fulbright Research Fellow in the United Arab Emirates, and a Newton Minow Research Fellow in Sierra Leone.  Her work has appeared in industry publications and the popular press, as well as the Seattle University Law Review for an article that won Harvard’s Davis Polk Legal Profession Writing Prize.

Professor Donaldson earned her J.D. cum laude from Harvard Law School, where she was elected Editor-in-Chief of the International Law Journal and awarded the Dean’s Scholar Prize for courses in Negotiations and Gender Violence, Law, & Social Justice.  She received her B.A. with honors from Northwestern University.  She was born and raised right here in Wisconsin, just down the road from the Marquette campus.