C. Edwin Baker
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Charles Edwin Baker | |
|---|---|
| Born | May 28, 1947 |
| Died | December 8, 2009 (aged 62) |
| Occupation | Law professor |
| Title | Nicholas F. Gallicchio Professor of Law and Communication |
| Academic background | |
| Education | Stanford University Yale University |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | University of Pennsylvania Law School |
| Main interests | constitutional law, communications law, and free speech |
Charles Edwin Baker (May 28, 1947 – December 8, 2009), the Nicholas F. Gallicchio Professor of Law and Communication at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, was a scholar of constitutional law, communications law, and free speech.
Baker was considered one of the country's foremost authorities on the First Amendment and on mass media policy.[1] His most recent scholarship focused on the economics of the news business, political philosophy, and jurisprudential questions concerning the egalitarian and libertarian bases of constitutional theory.
Baker was a native of Madisonville, Kentucky. He received his bachelor's degree from Stanford University and his J.D. degree from Yale Law School. He was a law and humanities fellow at Harvard University in 1974, a fellow at Harvard's Shorenstein Barone Center in 1992, and a Radcliffe fellow there in 2006.
Baker served as a staff attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union and was a professor at the University of Oregon and an assistant professor at the University of Toledo. He joined the University of Pennsylvania Law School in 1981, and since 2007 held a joint appointment at the Annenberg School for Communication at Penn. He was also a visiting professor at New York University, the University of Chicago, Cornell University, Harvard University, and the University of Texas.
Baker died on December 8, 2009, after he collapsed while exercising.[2] Baker was survived by his sister, Nancy L. Baker a member of the faculty at Fielding Graduate University. He was predeceased by his parents, Falcon O. Baker Jr. and Ernestine Magagna Baker.
