James M. Donovan joined the staff of the University of Georgia Alexander Campbell
King Law Library in July 2003. In his role as faculty services librarian, he serves as
the primary liaison between the law library and the faculty. Donovan manages the Current
Awareness Program, which helps faculty stay informed of new developments in their fields,
and he supervises the library’s Research Assistant Program, a resource faculty members
can utilize for short-term projects. He also leads the team responsible for the law
school's institutional repository, the Digital Commons.

As access services librarian, Donovan is also responsible for library functions
originating in the circulation department. In addition to scheduling the library’s hours
of operation and assuring that the service areas are properly staffed, he oversees the
reserve collection, interlibrary loan operations and document delivery services of the
library.

Before coming to UGA, Donovan was a member of the library team at Tulane University Law
School for 11 years. Initially he worked in the government documents and microforms
department and later served as its Head of Access Services. He also taught as an adjunct
professor and instructor at Tulane’s Law School and University College.

He currently holds an adjunct appointment to the UGA Department of Anthropology, for
which he teaches legal anthropology in the spring semesters. Published books include
LEGAL ANTHROPOLOGY: AN INTRODUCTION (AltaMira Press, 2008), and ANTHROPOLOGY & LAW
(Berghahn, 2003). He also served as editor-in-chief of the AALL publication SEXUAL
ORIENTATION AND THE LAW: A RESEARCH BIBLIOGRAPHY (2006). Additional work in the areas of
sexual orientation law, religion and the law, and law as a species of regulatory social
norm has appeared in a number of law reviews and peer-reviewed journals.

A holder of five degrees, Donovan received his first, a Bachelor of Arts with majors in
Greek/Latin and Humanities, in 1981 from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. He
earned both his Master in Library Information Science and a Master of Arts in philosophy
from Louisiana State University. At Tulane, he obtained a Ph.D. in anthropology with
specialization in psychological anthropology. Finally, in the spring of 2003, Donovan
graduated magna cum laude from Loyola New Orleans with a Juris Doctor.

Selected Works of James M. Donovan

James M. Donovan

University of Georgia School of Law

Anthropology

The Moral Significance of Social Roles (2008)

Legal Anthropology: An Introduction (2008)

"Anticipatory Self-Defense" and Other Stories (with Jeanne M. Woods), Kansas Journal of Law & Public Policy (2005)

Review: The Discipline of Law Schools: The Making of Modern Lawyers (Philip C. Kissam, Carolina Academic Press, 2003), and The Shame of American Legal Education (Alan Watson, PH-Dosije, 2004), PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review (2005)

Defining Religion, Selected Readings in the Anthropology of Religion: Theoretical and Methodological Essays (2003)

Civil Rights

Broun is Mere Opportunist, Athens Banner-Herald (2009)

Gay Marriage: The Issue, Flagpole (2009)

Corporate Domestic Partner Benefits, Defending Same-Sex Marriage, Vol. 1: "Separate But Equal" No More (2007)

Delimiting the Culture Defense (with John Stuart Garth), Quinnipiac Law Review (2007)

Same-Sex Union Announcements: Precis on a Not so Picayune Matter, Loyola Law Review (2003)

Constitutional Law

Same-Sex Union Announcements: Precis on a Not so Picayune Matter, Loyola Law Review (2003)

Same-Sex Union Announcements: Whether Newspapers Must Publish Them, and Why We Should Care, Brooklyn Law Review (2003)

DOMA: An Unconstitutional Establishment of Fundamentalist Christianity, Michigan Journal of Gender & Law (1997)

Restoring Free Exercise Protections by Limiting Them: Preventing a Repeat of Smith, Northern Illinois University Law Review (1996)

God Is as God Does: Law, Anthropology, and the Definition of "Religion", Seton Hall Constitutional Law Journal (1995)

Courts

Burdine v. Johnson -- To Sleep, Perchance to Get a New Trial: Presumed Prejudice Arising from Sleeping Counsel, Loyola Law Review (2001)

Criminal Law and Procedure

Delimiting the Culture Defense (with John Stuart Garth), Quinnipiac Law Review (2007)

Burdine v. Johnson -- To Sleep, Perchance to Get a New Trial: Presumed Prejudice Arising from Sleeping Counsel, Loyola Law Review (2001)

Dispute Resolution

Prolegomenon to a Fairness-Centered Anthropology of Law (2007)

Delimiting the Culture Defense (with John Stuart Garth), Quinnipiac Law Review (2007)

General Law

Review Essay: The Implicit Relation of Psychology and Law: Women and Syndrome Evidence (Fiona E. Raitt and M. Suzanne Zeedyk, Routledge, 2000), Sexualities, Evolution & Gender (2004)

Anthropology & Law (with H. Edwin Anderson) (2003)

International Law

Rights as Fairness (2008)

A Foundation for Transnational Obligations (2007)

"Anticipatory Self-Defense" and Other Stories (with Jeanne M. Woods), Kansas Journal of Law & Public Policy (2005)

Civilian Immunity and the Rebuttable Presumption of Innocence, Journal of Law in Society (2004)

Law and Society

Legal Anthropology: An Introduction (2008)

Human Nature Constraints upon the Realistic Utopianism of Rawls and Nussbaum (2007)

Prolegomenon to a Fairness-Centered Anthropology of Law (2007)

Corporate Domestic Partner Benefits, Defending Same-Sex Marriage, Vol. 1: "Separate But Equal" No More (2007)

Delimiting the Culture Defense (with John Stuart Garth), Quinnipiac Law Review (2007)

Legal Research and Bibliography

Back Away from the Survey Monkey!, AALL Spectrum (2009)

White Paper: Behind a Law School's Decision to Implement an Institutional Repository (with Carol A. Watson), (2008)

Sexual Orientation and the Law: A Research Bibliography Selectively Annotating Legal Literature through 2005 (2006)

Quality Online Legal Researching -- On the Cheap!, The Advocate (University of Georgia School of Law) (2006)

Libraries

Back Away from the Survey Monkey!, AALL Spectrum (2009)

Libraries as Doppelgängers: A Meditation on Collection Development, Southeastern Law Librarian (2009)

Skating on Thin Intermediation: Can Libraries Survive?, Legal Reference Services Quarterly (2008)

White Paper: Behind a Law School's Decision to Implement an Institutional Repository (with Carol A. Watson), (2008)

A Library Romantic’s Reply to Richard Danner, Legal Reference Services Quarterly (2008)

Philosophy

The Moral Significance of Social Roles (2008)

Rights as Fairness (2008)

Human Nature Constraints upon the Realistic Utopianism of Rawls and Nussbaum (2007)

A Foundation for Transnational Obligations (2007)

The Possibility of Technical Definition in Later Wittgenstein (2006)

Psychology

Review Essay: The Implicit Relation of Psychology and Law: Women and Syndrome Evidence (Fiona E. Raitt and M. Suzanne Zeedyk, Routledge, 2000), Sexualities, Evolution & Gender (2004)

Review: Facial Attractiveness: Evolutionary, Cognitive, and Social Perspectives (Gillian Rhodes and Leslie A. Zebrowitz, eds., Ablex Publishing, 2002), Human Nature Review (2003)

Implicit Religion and the Curvilinear Relationship between Religion and Death Anxiety, Implicit Religion (2002)

Reinterpreting Telepathy as Unusual Experiences of Empathy and Charisma, Perceptual and Motor Skills (1998)

Multiple Personality, Hypnosis, and Possession Trance, Yearbook of Cross-Cultural Medicine and Psychotherapy 1994/Jahrbuch fur Transkulturelle Medizin und Psychotherapie 1994 (1996)

Public Law and Legal Theory

Delimiting the Culture Defense (with John Stuart Garth), Quinnipiac Law Review (2007)

"Anticipatory Self-Defense" and Other Stories (with Jeanne M. Woods), Kansas Journal of Law & Public Policy (2005)

Civilian Immunity and the Rebuttable Presumption of Innocence, Journal of Law in Society (2004)

Rock-Salting the Slippery Slope: Why Same-Sex Marriage is Not a Commitment to Polygamous Marriage, Northern Kentucky Law Review (2002)

DOMA: An Unconstitutional Establishment of Fundamentalist Christianity, Michigan Journal of Gender & Law (1997)

Religion

Defining Religion, Selected Readings in the Anthropology of Religion: Theoretical and Methodological Essays (2003)

Implicit Religion and the Curvilinear Relationship between Religion and Death Anxiety, Implicit Religion (2002)

A Brazilian Challenge to Lewis's Explanation of Cult Mediumship, Journal of Contemporary Religion (2000)

Reconciling Arguments Regarding a Self-Preserving Soul with Evolutionary Theory (2000)

DOMA: An Unconstitutional Establishment of Fundamentalist Christianity, Michigan Journal of Gender & Law (1997)

Sexual Orientation

Broun is Mere Opportunist, Athens Banner-Herald (2009)