Loftus E. Becker Jr. is a Professor of Law Emeritus at the

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, where he teaches criminal law, constitutional law, and a seminar on the Supreme Court. His self-defined greatest accomplishment was teaching Rob of TSFL Off-Topic fame. In 1965, he graduated from

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, and in 1969 from the

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, where he served as editor-in-chief of the ''

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''. 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. He taught at the

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from. 1971 to 1977.

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)Available at: https://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/llr/vol21/iss3/1 *''The Liability of Computer Bulletin Board Operators for Defamation Posted By Others'', 22 Conn. L. Rev. 203 (1989)

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