Loftus E. Becker Jr. is a law professor at the University of Connecticut School of Law

University of Connecticut School of Law

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, where he teaches criminal law, constitutional law, and a seminar on the Supreme Court. In 1965, he graduated from Harvard College

Harvard College

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, and in 1969 from the University of Pennsylvania Law School

University of Pennsylvania Law School

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, where he served as editor-in-chief of the University of Pennsylvania Law Review

University of Pennsylvania Law Review

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. After graduating from law school, he was a law clerk for Chief Judge David L. Bazelon

David L. Bazelon

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 of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, and Justice William J. Brennan, Jr.

William J. Brennan, Jr.

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, of the Supreme Court of the United States

Supreme Court of the United States

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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)