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41 Loy. L. A. L. Rev. 49 (2007-2008)
Steve Shiffrin: Friend and Scholar

handle is hein.journals/lla41 and id is 59 raw text is: STEVE SHIFFRIN: FRIEND AND SCHOLAR C. Edwin Baker* Being able to contribute in this collaboration to honor Steve Shiffrin is a great pleasure. Steve's significance to me has been great both personally and professionally since we met 30 years ago at a conference in Los Angeles. We appeared on the same panel, and both later published our papers in both the conference book itself and the UCLA Law Review.' I assume that this is an occasion for offering amusing or maybe embarrassing personal stories, but that is not my skill. I can turn neither Steve's kindness in reacting to my mis-bids in the single time he took me as a bridge partner in duplicate bridge in Ithaca, nor his single-minded focus on making winning adjustments to his fantasy baseball team while I waited outside a caf6 in Prague, into anything interesting. So I will limit myself to discussing Steve as a scholar. First, he is an extraordinarily sharp, careful, but fair reader with the keenest eye for weaknesses or inconsistencies. This quality is constantly exhibited in Steve's reviews of judicial doctrine and is equally present in his iconoclastic and telling critiques of the homilies that fill constitutional, political, and philosophical discourses. My experience with this trait is, however, more personal. In an article in Northwestern University Law Review, Steve summarized my views on commercial speech with a clarity that I wish I could duplicate, and certainly with more accuracy than any other critic of my views.2 I take Steve's care to be a true virtue, especially given * Nicholas F. Gallicchio Professor of Law and Professor of Communication, University of Pennsylvania Law School. 1. CONSTITUTIONAL GOVERNMENT IN AMERICA (Ronald K.L. Collins ed., 1980); C. Edwin Baker, Scope of the First Amendment Freedom of Speech, 25 UCLA L. REV. 964 (1978); Steven Shiffrin, Defamatory Non-Media Speech and First Amendment Methodology, 25 UCLA L. REV 915 (1978). I thank Ron Collins for his central role in putting together both this and the earlier conference and hence, among other things, bringing Steve and me together. 2. Steven Shiffrin, The First Amendment and Economic Regulation: Awayfrom a General Theory of the First Amendment, 78 Nw. U. L. REV. 1212, 1239-45 (1983).

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