Frank Bowman will present "Pardons: Discretionary Mercy and the Rule of Law in Britain and America, 1066-2026”

We have been approved for 1 hour CLE credit.

Frank Bowman is University of Missouri Curators’ Distinguished Professor Emeritus and Floyd R. Gibson Missouri Endowed Professor of Law Emeritus at the University of Missouri School of Law. Raised in Durango, he has been a member of the Colorado Bar since 1979 and is also Provost’s Visiting Scholar at Fort Lewis College.

A 1979 graduate of Harvard Law School, Professor Bowman practiced as a federal and state prosecutor and sometime criminal defense counsel or civil litigator for seventeen years. 

 Since joining the legal academy in 1996, Professor Bowman has published widely on an array of subjects, focusing in recent years on presidential power. His most recent book is Pardons: Discretionary Mercy and the Rule of Law in Britain and America, 1066-2026 (Cambridge University Press 2026).

He has also written extensively on impeachment, including two books: High Crimes & Misdemeanors: A History of Impeachment for the Age of Trump (2d ed. Cambridge University Press 2024) and the upcoming Great and Dangerous Offences: The Case for (and Against) Impeaching Trump a Third Time (Ig Publishing 2027). He testified before the House Homeland Security Committee on the impeachment of Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. 

He has authored more than sixty journal articles on federal sentencing and criminal law generally, and since 1996 has co-authored the Federal Sentencing Guidelines Handbook (Thomson Reuters), the best-selling treatise on U.S. federal sentencing. He has testified numerous times on sentencing before the U.S. Sentencing Commission and the U.S. House and Senate Judiciary Committees. He has also written on Civil War era legal history.