Eric B EastonEric B. Easton is Professor of Law Emeritus at the University of Baltimore School of Law, where he specialized in Media Law and Legal Writing for more than 25 years. He is founding editor of the Journal of Media Law & Ethics and author of New York Ties v. Sullivan: Documentary Supplement, Defending the Masses: A Progressive Lawyer's Battles for Free Speech, and Mobilizing the Press: Defending the First Amendment in the Supreme Court. He is co-author of The Law of Advertising, a multi-volume treatise. Professor Easton is an executive board member and past chair of the Mass Communications Law Section of the Association of American Law Schools and a member of the Society of Professional Journalists, the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communications, and the International Communication Association. He is a past chair of the Maryland State Bar Association's Section on Legal Education and Admission to the Bar, past chair of the Communication Skills Committee of the American Bar Association's Section on Legal Education and Admission to the Bar, and a member of the Association of Legal Writing Directors and the Legal Writing Institute. He has also directed the Law School's LL.M. in the Law of the United States and chaired the University's Faculty Senate and Institutional Review Board. Before joining the University of Baltimore School of Law, Professor Easton taught media law and other subjects at Loyola University Maryland. He has also taught various aspects of media law at the University of Aberdeen, Shandong University, and the University of the Netherlands Antilles, and was a visiting scholar at the Journalism Institute of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. Professor Easton holds a Ph.D. from the Philip Merrill College of Journalism, University of Maryland, a J.D. from the University of Maryland, and a B.S. from Northwestern University. He was a professional journalist for more than 20 years before joining the academy. Read More Read Less