Raff Donelson

Chicago-Kent College of Law - Illinois Institute of Technology

565 W. Adams St.

Chicago, IL 60661-3691

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“  I'm currently working on a book about ethics and pragmatism. On the side, I am thinking and reading about organized crime, meta-jurisprudence, and punishment.  ”

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Blacks, Cops, and the State of Nature

15 Ohio St. J. Crim. L. 183 (2017)
Number of pages: 10 Posted: 27 Mar 2017 Last Revised: 27 Nov 2017
Raff Donelson
Chicago-Kent College of Law - Illinois Institute of Technology
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Police Violence, Thomas Hobbes, State of Nature

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Fuller and the Folk: The Inner Morality of Law Revisited

Oxford Studies in Experimental Philosophy, Volume 3. Oxford: UK, Oxford University Press, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 08 Dec 2018
Raff Donelson and Ivar Hannikainen
Chicago-Kent College of Law - Illinois Institute of Technology and Department of Philosophy I, University of Granada
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Lon Fuller, Jurisprudence, Philosophy of Law, Experimental Philosophy, Experimental Jurisprudence, Methodology of Jurisprudence, Natural Law Theory

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Natural Punishment

100 N. C. L. Rev. 557 (2022)
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 05 Mar 2021 Last Revised: 09 Mar 2022
Raff Donelson
Chicago-Kent College of Law - Illinois Institute of Technology
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Eighth Amendment, pre-trial punishment, retributivism, mercy, karma, natural punishment, poena naturalis, Absehen von Strafe

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The Inherent Problem with Mass Incarceration

Oklahoma Law Review, Vol. 75, No. 1, 2022
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 08 Nov 2022
Raff Donelson
Chicago-Kent College of Law - Illinois Institute of Technology
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mass incarceration, abolitionism, prison, race, racism, Thomas Hobbes, Immanuel Kant, John Rawls

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The Pragmatist School in Analytic Jurisprudence

Philosophical Issues, Vol. 31, Issue 1, 2021
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 05 Oct 2021 Last Revised: 06 Oct 2021
Raff Donelson
Chicago-Kent College of Law - Illinois Institute of Technology
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pragmatism, general jurisprudence, analytic jurisprudence, legal positivism, ethical positivism, conceptual ethics, conceptual engineering, experimental jurisprudence, representationalism

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Describing Law

33 Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence 85 (2020)
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 15 Nov 2019 Last Revised: 03 Mar 2020
Raff Donelson
Chicago-Kent College of Law - Illinois Institute of Technology
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Jurisprudence, jurisprudential methodology, pragmatism, expressivism, description, natural kinds, philosophy of language

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Legal Inconsistencies

55 TULSA L. REV. 15 (2019)
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 22 Apr 2019 Last Revised: 08 Nov 2019
Raff Donelson
Chicago-Kent College of Law - Illinois Institute of Technology
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legal inconsistency, due process, Lon Fuller, sexting, crack/powder cocaine disparity, consistency principle, action guidance, jurisprudence, rule of law, legal contradiction

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Cruel and Unusual What? Toward a Unified Definition of Punishment

9 Washington University Jurisprudence Review 1 (2016)
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 27 Mar 2017
Raff Donelson
Chicago-Kent College of Law - Illinois Institute of Technology
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Punishment, Retribution, Eighth Amendment

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Experimental Approaches to General Jurisprudence

Advances in Experimental Philosophy of Law (Stefan Magen & Karolina Prochownik, eds. Bloomsbury)
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 22 Dec 2022
Raff Donelson
Chicago-Kent College of Law - Illinois Institute of Technology
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general jurisprudence, philosophy of law, experimental philosophy, experimental jurisprudence, conceptual analysis

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Are There Cross-Cultural Legal Principles? Modal Reasoning Uncovers Procedural Constraints on Law

Cognitive Science, Volume 45 (2021)
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 22 Jun 2021 Last Revised: 15 Mar 2022
Ivar Hannikainen, Kevin Tobia, Guilherme Almeida, Raff Donelson, Vilius Dranseika, Markus Kneer, Strohmaier Niek, Piotr Bystranowski, Kristina Dolinina, Bartosz Janik, Sothie Keo, Egle Lauraityte, Alice Liefgreen, Maciej Próchnicki, Alejandro Rosas Martinez and Noel Struchiner
Department of Philosophy I, University of Granada, Georgetown University Law Center, Insper, Chicago-Kent College of Law - Illinois Institute of Technology, Independent, University of Zurich - Institute of Philosophy, Independent, Interdisciplinary Centre for Ethics; Jagiellonian University, Independent, University of Silesia in Katowice, Independent, Vilnius University - Faculty of Law, University College London - Department of Experimental Psychology, Affective Brain Lab, Independent, Independent and PUC-Rio
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Reparations, Responsibility, and Formalism: A Reply to Carnes

Philosophia, 2020
Number of pages: 5 Posted: 16 Jan 2021
Raff Donelson
Chicago-Kent College of Law - Illinois Institute of Technology
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Attributive responsibility, Cost-spreading, Formalism, Functionalism, Reparations. Substantive responsibility

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The Nihilist

The Pragmatism and Prejudice of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. 31-48 (Seth Vannatta, ed. Lexington Press 2019).
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 10 Jul 2019
Raff Donelson
Chicago-Kent College of Law - Illinois Institute of Technology
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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Friedrich Nietzsche, nihilism, existentialism, morality, pragmatism, William James, truth

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Who are the Punishers?

86 UMKC Law Review 259 (2017)
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 27 Mar 2017 Last Revised: 21 Jan 2018
Raff Donelson
Chicago-Kent College of Law - Illinois Institute of Technology
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Eighth Amendment, Punishment, Constitutional Interpretation, Pragmatism

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The Real Problem with Katz Circularity

65 St. Louis University Law Journal 809 (2021)
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 06 Apr 2021 Last Revised: 09 May 2022
Raff Donelson
Chicago-Kent College of Law - Illinois Institute of Technology
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privacy, Katz test, Katz circularity, policing, search and seizure, Fourth Amendment

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Forbidden Purposes

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 14 Sep 2023
Raff Donelson
Chicago-Kent College of Law - Illinois Institute of Technology
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rationality review, rational basis test, legitimate government purposes, liberalism, equal protection clause, substantive due process, war on drugs