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Frank O. Bowman III
BA cum laude (1976), The Colorado College
JD (1979), Harvard Law School
- Phone Number: 573-882-2749
- Room Number: 310 Hulston Hall
- E-Mail Address: BowmanF@missouri.edu
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Professor Bowman joined the faculty in 2005 from the Indiana University School of Law-Indianapolis, where he served as the M. Dale Palmer Professor of Law. Following his graduation from Harvard Law School in 1979, Professor Bowman entered the U.S. Department of Justice as part of the Honor Graduate Program.
He spent three years as a trial attorney in the Criminal Division in Washington, D.C. From 1983 until 1986, he was a deputy district attorney for Denver, Colo. He also spent three years in private practice in Colorado.
In 1989, Professor Bowman joined the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Florida, where he was Deputy Chief of the Southern Criminal Division and specialized in complex white-collar crimes. In 1995 and 1996, he served as Special Counsel to the U.S. Sentencing Commission in Washington, D.C. From 1998 to 2001, he served as academic advisor to the Criminal Law Committee of the United States Judicial Conference.
Recent Publications
Academic Journals| Getting Away with Murder (Most of the Time): Civil War Era Homicide Cases in Boone County, Missouri, 77 MISSOURI LAW REVIEW 323 (2012). | |
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| Nothing is Not Enough: Fix the Absurd Post-Booker Federal Sentencing System, 24 FEDERAL SENTENCING REPORTER 356 (2012). | |
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| Prolegomenon on the Status of the Hopey, Changey Thing in American Criminal Justice, 23 FEDERAL SENTENCING REPORTER 93 (2010). | |
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| Debacle: How the Supreme Court Has Mangled American Sentencing Law And How It Might Yet Be Mended, 77 UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO LAW REVIEW 367 (2010). | |
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| Getting Away With Murder (Most of the Time): A Sesquicentennial Analysis of Civil War Era Homicide Cases in Boone County, Missouri, University of Missouri School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2011-20 | |
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