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Arthur LeFrancois
Professor of Law

E-mail:   Arthur LeFrancois

Phone:  (405) 208-5235

Office Hours:

Tuesday and Thursday 2:30-3:30 p.m.; by appointment.

Courses:
Criminal Law • Criminal Procedure • Jurisprudence

Education:
B.A., Beloit College; J.D., University of Chicago; Phi Beta Kappa

Background:
Professor LeFrancois was in private practice in State College, Pa., before joining the OCU law faculty. He has served in leadership positions for a number of statewide public and private efforts devoted to criminal sentencing reform and state constitutional revision. He has led sentencing workshops for state trial judges and directed a training program for Armenian defense attorneys under the auspices of the American Bar Association's Central and East European Law Initiative. His recent scholarship has focused on criminal law and procedure, the Rehnquist Court, and the relationship between values and law.

Publications:

• Drugs and Incarceration in Oklahoma: An Arresting Problem, in DRUGS “LEGAL... ILLEGAL... AND OTHERWISE” 3-69 – 3-70 (Okla. Acad. for State Goals, 2005).

• Book Review, A Curious Place for Intolerance: Alabama’s Segregated Public Libraries, 57 ALA. L. REV. 141-71 (2005) (reviewing PATTERSON TOBY GRAHAM, A RIGHT TO READ: SEGREGATION AND CIVIL RIGHTS IN ALABAMA'S PUBLIC LIBRARIES, 1900-1965 (2002)).
• Book Review, 23 L. & HIST. REV. 725-27 (2005) (reviewing MARK V. TUSHNET, SLAVE LAW IN AMERICAN SOUTH: STATE V. MANN IN HISTORY AND LITERATURE (2003)).
• “You Know How We Cheyennes Try to Live:” Nineteenth-Century Cheyenne Property Offenses and Anglo Comparisons, 17 SOVEREIGNTY SYMPOSIUM VI-1 - VI-26 (Okla. S.Ct. et al., 2004).
• Book Review, 81 N.C. Hist. Rev. 111-12 (2004) (reviewing HAROLD D. TALLANT, EVIL NECESSITY: SLAVERY AND POLITICAL CULTURE IN ANTEBELLUM KENTUCKY (2003)).

• Organized Crime Control Act of 1970, in 3 Brian K. Landsberg ed., MAJOR ACTS OF CONGRESS, at 104-09 (Macmillan Reference USA, 2004).

• Fugitive Slave Acts (1793, 1850), in 2 Brian K. Landsberg ed., MAJOR ACTS OF CONGRESS, at 128-32 (Macmillan Reference USA, 2004).

• Categorizing Crime and Determining Punishment in Oklahoma, in RATIONAL JUSTICE POLICY - FINDINGS AND RECOMMENDATIONS: A REPORT TO THE OKLAHOMA STATE SENATE A1-A28 (Oklahoma Alliance for Public Policy Research, Inc., 2003).

• Liberalism, the Constitution, and the Supreme Court, in Martin H. Belsky ed., THE REHNQUIST COURT: A RETROSPECTIVE 253-73 (Oxford Univ. Press, 2002) (with Robert H. Henry).

• The Art of Judging and the Performance of Being Earnest: Responding to Professor Chemerinsky’s Informalism, 54 OKLA. L. REV. 26-35 (2001).

• Some Lessons from Karl Llewellyn and Cheyenne Homicide Law, 14 SOVEREIGNTY SYMPOSIUM 15-1 to 15-12 (Okla. S.Ct. et al., 2001).

• Law and Economics (panel remarks), 31 N.M. L. REV. 107, at 112-16 (2001).

• New Developments in Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Amendment Law (panel remarks), 31 N.M. L. REV. 175, at 181-85 (2001).

• Our Chosen Frequency: Norms, Race, and Transcendence in Ralph Ellison’s Cadillac Flambé, 26 OKLA. CITY U. L. REV. 1021-40 (2001).

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