Professor Ted Becker is a clinical professor of law and the director of the Legal Practice Program.
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Activities
Co-counsel for Plaintiffs in two civil rights cases currently pending at the Michigan Supreme Court, Johnson v. Vanderkooi and Harrison v. Vanderkooi, raising Fourth Amendment challenges to the "photo and print" procedures of the City of Grand Rapids as applied to juveniles who are stopped by police and who lack identification.
Co-presenter, "The Survey Says: Understanding and Using the New ALWD/LWI Survey," Legal Writing Institute Biennial Conference.
Presented "Same as it Never Was: Some Reflections on the Use of History in Classical and Modern Legal Argument" at the Nevada Law Journal Symposium: Classical Rhetoric as a Lens for Contemporary Legal Praxis, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, William S. Boyd School of Law.
Co-presenter, "What is the Value of Scholarship?," Legal Writing Institute Biennial Conference, Milwaukee.
Co-presenter, "How We Built a Scholarly Working Group Developed to Classical Legal Rhetoric (and How You Can Do the Same Thing with Other Legal Writing Subjects)," Legal Writing Institute Biennial Conference, Milwaukee.
Co-presenter, "The Sooner, the Better: How Live Client Work for 1L LRW Students Helps Them Develop a Shared Professional Identity," Association of Legal Writing Directors Biennial Conference, Minneapolis.
Presented "Prophets Looking Backward: Lessons for Today's Lawyers from Historical Clashes of Cultural Narratives," 6th Biennial Applied Legal Storytelling Conference, Washington, D.C.
Co-presenter, "Some Ideas for Effectively Incorporating Transactional Drafting into the First-Year Legal Writing Class," Southeastern Regional Legal Writing Conference, Gulfport, Florida.