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Loftus Becker

Loftus Becker, Professor of Law. Professor Becker teaches criminal law , constitutional law, and a seminar in the Supreme Court. 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, in 1969. 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, most recently, Comments on “The Telecommunications Act of 1966,” by Thomas G. Krattenmaker, 29 U. Conn. L. Rev. 175 (1996).

Recent Courses

• Constitutional Law II (Spring 2009)
• Constitutional Law, Prob In (Spring 2009)
• Constitutional Law I (Fall 2008)
• Criminal Law (Fall 2008)
• Constitutional Law II (Spring 2008)
• Constitutional Law, An Intro (Spring 2008)