C. Edwin Baker

A professor at the University of Pennsylvania since 1981 and graduate of Yale Law School and Stanford University, Ed Baker has also taught at NYU, Chicago, Cornell, Texas, Oregon and Toledo law schools and at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government and was briefly a staff attorney for the ACLU. He is the author of three books on media policy: Media Concentration and Democracy: Why Ownership Matters(Cambridge, 2007); Media, Markets, and Democracy (Cambridge, 2002), winner of the 2002 McGannon Communications Policy Research Award; and Advertising and a Democratic Press(Princeton, 1994); plus his first book, Human Liberty and Freedom of Speech (Oxford, 1989). His more than 50 academic articles consider free speech, equality, property, law and economics, jurisprudence and the mass media. He has lectured widely on media ownership and media policy in the United States, as well as in Africa and the Middle East, Eastern and Western Europe, Mexico and Canada.