PROFESSOR DONELSON INVITED TO PARTICIPATE IN APRIL 2021 APA CONFERENCE ON POLICE SEARCHES
August 2020 — Professor Raff Donelson was invited to speak at the American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division Annual Meeting in April 2021. Donelson’s participation is part of a special symposium dedicated to the issue of Policing and Police. Donelson’s presentation will be “Privacy When You Least Expect It: On Police Searches and Expectations of Privacy.”
Professor Donelson, who teaches criminal procedure at Dickinson Law and who holds a PhD in philosophy, was invited to share his expertise on policing at the American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division Annual Meeting in April 2021. The American Philosophical Association is the largest professional organization for philosophers in the world. Its three divisions – Eastern, Central, and Pacific – each meet annually, and Donelson regularly participates in at least one meeting per year, often sharing his expertise on matters about the law or policing. In 2020, Donelson participated in a symposium on The Retrieval of Liberalism in Policing, a recent monograph by Professor Luke Hunt (Alabama). In his 2021 presentation, Donelson will argue that the definition of a police search should have nothing to do with whether a suspect expects privacy over something.
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Professor Raff Donelson is an Assistant Professor of Law at Penn State Dickinson Law who earned his J.D. and Ph.D. in Philosophy from Northwestern University. Professor Donelson’s research and teaching interests lie at the intersection of philosophy, constitutional law, and criminal law. His more theoretical research interests include metaethics and general jurisprudence, while his doctrinal work focuses on constitutional protections for criminals and the accused. His scholarship includes contributions to books published by Oxford University Press and Cambridge University Press, as well as articles in U.S. and foreign law reviews and in philosophy journals such as Metaphilosophy. He has been an invited speaker at numerous legal and philosophy conferences and has addressed both U.S. and foreign academic audiences. His work is featured in Legal-Phi, which is an online venue that profiles the work of rising stars in the field of legal philosophy.