纪念美国最著名的言论自由学者C.Edwin Baker教授
Alex Kreit: "He was as fine a teacher as he was a scholar."
Alex Kreit：“他是个像他的学问一样出色的教师”。
First Amendment Center: "Ed was a modern-day gadfly, albeit one who wore wide-rimmed glasses that allowed him to see things that many of the rest of us could not."
宪法第一修正案中心：尽管带着宽框眼睛使他看到了我们中的许多人都看不到的事物，Ed依然是个现代的牛虻。
Legal Theory: "Ed was a significant contributor to fundamental debates in constitutional theory for decades."
法律理论：Ed为数十年来宪法领域的核心论争，做出了巨大的贡献
Balkinization: "The finest media law scholar of his generation."
Balkinization：他是他那个时代最好的媒体法学者。
Balkinization (2): "I’ve never seen the influence of the ’marketplace of ideas’ on the Supreme Court documented or criticized as thoroughly as Baker does it."
Balkinization（2）：我从来没有见过谁对深受“观念市场理论”影响的最高法院的判决或批评，像Baker先生那样入木三分。
Feminist Law Professors: "He was brilliant, funny, kind and fiercely invested in building a more just world."
女权主义者法学教授：在构建一个更公正的世界的过程中，他功绩卓越、有趣、良善并且充满活力。
Daily Pennsylvanian: "He loved the underdog.”
Daily Pennsylvanian：他爱生活在社会低层的人。
C. Edwin Baker, the Nicholas F. Gallicchio Professor of Law and Communication at the University of Pennsylvania Law School and a leading scholar in the fields of constitutional law, communications law and free speech, died suddenly on Dec. 8 in New York City, where he had lived the past 20 years. He was 62. He collapsed while exercising and could not be revived.
C. Edwin Baker，宾夕法尼亚大学法学院Nicholas F. Gallicchio法学和传播学教授，卓越的宪法、传播法和言论自由教者，（2009年）12月8日在纽约市，也就是他过去曾经生活过20年的地方，突然辞世。他只活了62岁。他在锻炼身体时轰然倒下，就再也没有复活。
Professor Baker was considered one of the country’s foremost authorities on the First Amendment and on mass media policy. Most recently, he focused his work on the economics of the news business, political philosophy, and jurisprudential questions concerning the egalitarian and libertarian bases of constitutional theory.
在宪法第一修正案和大众传媒政策领域，Baker先生是美国最权威的教授之一。最近，他的研究兴趣集中在新闻业、政治哲学和与宪法理论之基础的平等和自由主义相关的法理问题。
“Ed Baker was a brilliant scholar, a dedicated teacher and a wonderful friend,” said Penn Law Dean Michael A. Fitts. “Generations of students and lawyers benefitted from his insights, his high expectations and his caring approach to everyone around him. His death is a great loss for the Penn Law community as well as for the larger community of academicians and practitioners focused on free speech, the media and human rights.”
“Ed Baker是个卓越的学者，有奉献精神的教师和益友”，宾夕法尼亚大学法学院院长Michael A. Fitts说。“有几代在他身边的学生和律师，都得益于他的洞见、他的高瞻远瞩和他的关切。他的死是宾夕法尼亚法律社区和更大范围内关注言论自由、媒体和人权的学者和从业者的巨大损失。”
His work was read and respected by policy makers and students in the United States and internationally. Just this past summer, he taught a course on communication policy, freedom of speech, and freedom of the press at Communication University of China in Beijing. Earlier this year, Professor Baker told a Congressional subcommittee that "huge actual layoffs of journalists as well as threatened closures of towns’ only daily are a major threat to democracy. When people are reading newspapers, corruption goes down." In January, he wrote an essay calling for a targeted federal tax credit to help newspapers hire more journalists, instead of laying them off.
美国和美国之外的政策制定者和学生，都阅读并钟爱他的著作。就在刚刚过去的夏天，他还远赴中国北京的中国传媒大学，教授传播政策、言论自由和传媒自由课程。在今年更早的时候，Baker先生给国会的一个专门委员会委员说：“大规模解雇新闻工作者和关闭城镇仅有的日报”的作法，是民主的巨大威胁。今年一月，他针对一项受到攻击的联邦减税政策写过一篇文章，呼吁联邦政府帮助报纸雇用更多的记者，而不是解雇他们。
“It is always a pleasure to read Ed Baker’s work, but it is a pleasure tinged by envy, for I inevitably come away thinking, ‘I wish I were that good a scholar,’” said Seth Kreimer, the Kenneth W. Gemmill Professor at Penn Law. “Some of my colleagues are outstanding lawyers, some are insightful social scientists, and Ed was both. Rather than deploying a single social science paradigm to illuminate a legal problem, he deployed two or three, with the result brilliantly illuminating the discourse of practicing lawyers and judges.”
“阅读Ed Baker的文章是一件非常愉快而伴有淡淡妒意的事情，因为阅读的时候我总是在想，如果我是个像他那样出色的学者，该多好。”在宾夕法尼亚大学法学院工作的Kenneth W. Gemmill 教授Seth Kreimer先生说。“我的同事中有杰出的法学家，有见解深刻的社会科学家，而ED Baker先生同时兼具两者。他不是用单个的社会科学范式阐明某个法律问题，他用两个，甚至三个，结果自然便是，他卓越地阐明了执业律师和从业法官之道。”
Professor Baker was scheduled to participate in the upcoming fifth international human rights workshop on the subject of “Private Power and Human Rights” in Israel, and he was working on his fifth book at the time of his death. His first book, Human Liberty and Freedom of Speech, published by Oxford University Press in 1989, defends interpreting First Amendment freedom of speech as concerned primarily with individual freedom and autonomy rather than the more traditional understanding of it being about a marketplace of ideas. Advertising and a Democratic Press (Princeton University Press, 1994) became a leading critique of the impact of advertising on media’s non-advertising content and Media, Markets, and Democracy (Cambridge University Press, 2002) explores why the free market predictably fails to provide the media that consumers want or citizens need. His most recent book, Media Concentration and Democracy: Why Ownership Matters (Cambridge, 2007), evaluates economic and democratic reason to oppose media concentration.
Baker教授计划参加即将在以色列召开的第十五届“私权和人权”国际人权讲习班，在他去世之际，他正致力于他的第五本专著。他的第一本巨著，即由牛津大学1989年出版的《人类自由和言论自由》，从最重要的个人自由和自治来捍卫宪法第一修正案保护的言论自由，而不是从更传统的观念市场理论来理解。《广告和民主的传媒》（1994年普林斯顿大学出版社出版），就广告对传媒的非广告内容之影响，给出了最重要的评论。《传媒、市场和民主》（剑桥大学2002年出版）探索了自由市场不可能为消费者或市场提供他们想要的传媒的原因。他最新的著作，即《传媒集中与民主：为什么所有权至关重要》（2007年剑桥），评估的是反对传媒集中的经济和民主方面的理由。
Professor Baker joined Penn Law in 1981 and focused his teaching on constitutional law, mass media law, the First Amendment, and jurisprudence. Since 2007, he has held a joint appointment in the Annenberg School for Communication at Penn. During his career he served as a staff attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union and he held teaching positions at several universities prior to joining Penn Law.
Baker教授1981年加盟宾夕法尼亚大学法学院并致力于宪法学、大众传媒法、宪法第一修正案和法理学教学工作。2007年起，他又兼任起宾夕法尼亚大学Annenberg传播学院的教职。在其职业生涯中，他还是美国公民自由联盟的法律事务专员。加盟宾大之前，他先后在几所大学担任过教职。
“There was no scholar so committed, passionate, disciplined and wise in thinking through the relationship between the media and the political system,” said Monroe Price, the director of the Center for Global Communication Studies at Penn’s Annenberg School. “He was a quiet and persistent missionary for his own very exacting and compelling view of the First Amendment and international norms of free speech.”
“对传媒与政治制度之关系的思考方面，没有人能比Baker教授更坚定、更殷切、更严谨，也更睿智。”宾大Annenberg传播学院全球传播研究中心主任Monroe Price说。“他是个平静而坚韧的传教士，献身于传播他自己精致和令人信服的宪法第一修正案观点以及言论自由的国际准则。”
Professor Baker received his law degree from Yale University and his bachelor’s degree from Stanford University. He had been a fellow at Harvard on three occasions, most recently as a Radcliff Fellow in 2006.
Baker教授毕业于斯坦福大学并在耶鲁大学获得法学学位。他有三段时间，最近的一次是2006以Radcliff研究员的身份，在哈佛大学访学。
A memorial service is being planned for Jan. 31, 2010, in New York City. Contributions in his memory should be made to the ACLU, the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation, Oxfam, or any other charity honoring his commitment to human rights and free speech.
2010年1月31日计划在纽约市举办追悼仪式。在他纪念仪式上的捐款应当捐助给美国公民自由联盟、青少年糖尿病基金会、牛津赈灾委员会和任何赞赏其在人权和言论自由方面之贡献的其他慈善组织。
Professor Baker is survived by his sister, Nancy Baker, of El Granada, Calif., who is on the faculty of Fielding Graduate University; her spouse, Cathy Hauer; and seven first cousins with whom he was very close. He was predeceased by his parents, Falcon O. Baker, Jr. and Ernestine Magagna Baker.
Baker教授辞世时留下了他的妹妹Nancy Baker，她住在加利福尼亚的El Granada，是Fielding研究生院教师，她的配偶Cathy Hauer；和七个与他关系密切的第一代堂兄弟姐妹。他的双亲Falcon O. Baker和Ernestine Magagna Baker已经先他而去。
（译自美国宾夕法尼亚大学法学院网站。英文网址：http://www.law.upenn.edu/blogs/news/archives/2009/12/penn_law_professor_c_edwin_bak.html）
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