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.
He received his bachelor's degree from Stanford University and his J.D.
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.
Baker died on December 8, 2009, after he collapsed while exercising.