PROFESSOR DONELSON INVITED TO SPEAK AT SYMPOSIUM ON MASS INCARCERATION
July 2021 — Professor Raff Donelson was recently invited to present at the University of Oklahoma College of Law’s Symposium entitled “Ending Mass Incarceration.”
The symposium will take place in February 2022 at the University of Oklahoma College of Law in Norman, Oklahoma. Professor Donelson will present his work-in-progress, “Ways of Ending Mass Incarceration,” a survey of proposed solutions to this problem.
Professor Raff Donelson is an Associate 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.