Professor Donelson Recently Spoke at SLU Law about Fourth Amendment Searches

PROFESSOR DONELSON RECENTLY SPOKE AT SLU LAW ABOUT FOURTH AMENDMENT SEARCHES

October 2020 — Professor Raff Donelson gave a presentation on a panel at the Childress Symposium at Saint Louis University Law School. His presentation was entitled, “Katz Should Only Have One Step.”

Professor Donelson, who teaches criminal procedure at Dickinson Law, was invited to share his expertise on the Fourth Amendment as part of the annual Childress Symposium at SLU Law. Donelson argued that the two-step test for determining whether a Fourth Amendment search has occurred should be replaced by a simpler and more intuitive one-step test.

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.