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 University of Pennsylvania School of Law, 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

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of the

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, and Justice

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, of the

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. He taught at the University of Minnesota Law School 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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