Loftus Becker

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Loftus E. Becker Jr. is a law professor at the University of Connecticut School of Law, where he teaches criminal law, constitutional law, and a seminar on the Supreme Court. In 1965, he graduated from Harvard College, and in 1969 from the University of Pennsylvania Law School, where he served as editor-in-chief of the University of Pennsylvania Law Review. After graduating from law school, he was a law clerk for Chief Judge David L. Bazelon of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, and Justice William J. Brennan, Jr., of the Supreme Court of the United States.

[edit] Selected Publications

• Durham Revisited: Psychiatry and the Problem of Crime (1973)
• Criminal Law: Theory and Process (with Joseph Goldstein ) (Supp. 1982)
• Plea Bargaining and the Supreme Court, 21 Loyola of L.A. L. Rev 757 (1988)
• The Liability of Computer Bulletin Board Operators for Defamation Posted By Others, 22 Conn. L. Rev. 203 (1989)

[edit] External links

• University of Connecticut Faculty Profile