PROFESSOR DONELSON PUBLISHES PAPER ON NATURAL PUNISHMENT
March 2021 — Professor Raff Donelson will be featured in the forthcoming 100th Volume of the North Carolina Law Review. A prepublication version of his article, entitled “Natural Punishment,” is available here.
In this paper, Donelson defines and describes instances in which wrongdoers are punished by the results of their wrongdoing, rather than by any punishment system. Donelson examines how courts take such punishment into account and advocates for courts to further recognize this type of punishment when deciding upon punishment post-conviction.
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.