Prof. C. Edwin Baker
Nicholas F. Gallicchio Professor of Law
University of Pennsylvania Law School

"Media Ownership and Media Markets:
A Democratic and Economic Evaluation"

Prof. C. Edwin BakerC. EDWIN BAKER, Nicholas F. Gallicchio Professor, University of Pennsylvania School of Law. A professor at the University of Pennsylvania since 1981 and a 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. His first book, Human Liberty and Freedom of Speech (Oxford, 1989), presented a general theory of free speech emphasizing individual liberty. His more recent focus on media policy has resulted in Advertising and a Democratic Press (Princeton, 1994), Media, Markets, and Democracy (Cambridge, 2002) (winner of the 2002 McGannon Communications Policy Research Award), and Media Concentration and Democracy: Why Ownership Matters (Cambridge, 2007). He has written over 40 academic articles about free speech, equality, property, law and economics, jurisprudence, and the mass media and lectured on issues concerning press freedom or media policy in Canada, Czech Republic, England, Ethiopia, Hungary, Israel, Mexico, Scotland and Switzerland as well as the United States. His current work is turning more toward political and legal philosophy. The 2006-07 academic year Ed Baker is a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study where he is working on the possibility of a legitimate legal order and issues concerning the basis and proper content of a legal commitment to fundamental equality.