Professor Bowman joins the faculty 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
Books
Federal Sentencing Guidelines Handbook with Roger W. Haines, Jr. and Jennifer C. Woll, (Thomson/West 2008).
Debacle: How the Supreme Court Has Mangled American Sentencing Law And How It Might Yet Be Mended, 77 UNIVERISITY OF CHICAGO LAW REVIEW__ (forthcoming 2010).
American Buffalo: Vanishing Acquittals and the Gradual Extinction of the Federal Criminal Trial Lawyer, 156 UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA LAW REVIEW PENNumbra 226 (2007).
'The Question is Which is to Be Master - That's All': Cunningham, Claiborne, Rita and the Sixth Amendment Muddle, 19 FEDERAL SENTENCING REPORTER 155 (2007).
