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. 

Professor LeFrancois received his B.A. (Phi Beta Kappa) from Beloit College and his J.D.
from the University of Chicago. He teaches Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, and
Jurisprudence. 

Articles

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Thinking of Bill, 38 Oklahoma City University Law Review 33-37 (2013)
 

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Some Moral Perils of Criminal Law, 5 Oklahoma Humanities 17-21 (2012)
 

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Von Creel, 36 Oklahoma City University Law Review 23-25 (2011)
 

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On Some Curious Attributes of Richard E. Coulson, 34 Oklahoma City University Law Review 15 (2009)
 

Contributions to Books

Judicial Pragmatism, Encyclopedia of the Supreme Court of the United States (2008)
 
Lyons v. Oklahoma, 322 U.S. 596 (1944), Encyclopedia of the Supreme Court of the United States (2008)
 
Skinner v. Oklahoma, 316 U.S. 535 (1942), Encyclopedia of the Supreme Court of the United States (2008)
 

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Drugs and Incarceration in Oklahoma: An Arresting Problem, Drugs "Legal... Illegal... and Otherwise (2005)
 
Fugitive Slave Acts (1793, 1850), Major Acts of Congress (2004)