Loftus Becker

Professor Becker teaches criminal and constitutional law. He graduated from Harvard College in 1965 and the University of Pennsylvania Law School, where he was Editor-in-Chief of the University of Pennsylvania Law Review. Thereafter he served as 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 has taught law since 1971 except for two years in practice with Sonosky, Chambers, Sachse & Endreson in Washington, D.C., primarily representing Indian tribes in water rights, oil and gas, and land claims matters. In addition to his present courses, he has taught civil procedure, criminal procedure, law and psychiatry, family law, federal courts, computers and the law, and federal income taxation. His writings include Plea Bargaining and the Supreme Court, 21 Loyola of L.A. L. Rev 757 (1988), and, more recently, Comments on “The Telecommunications Act of 1966,” by Thomas G. Krattenmaker, 29 U. Conn. L. Rev. 175 (1996).