John Baker is Professor Emeritus of Law at Louisiana State University Law School, as well as a Visiting Professor at Georgetown Law School and Visiting Professor at Peking University School of Transnational Law. After law school, he served as a law clerk in federal district court and as an assistant attorney in New Orleans. While teaching at the Louisiana State University Law School, Baker has been a Visiting Fellow at Oriel College, the University of Oxford from 2012 to 2014, and taught a course at Blackfriars Hall, Oxford in 2014. He has also taught at a number of schools internationally and has been a Visiting Professor at the University of Lyon III (France) and at the Universidad de los Andes, Chile, where he was a Fulbright Specialist in 2012. He has lectured at universities and research institutes internationally. Aside from teaching, Baker has also been a consultant to many executive and legislative departments, committees, and task forces, as well as being a co-founder of the first iteration of Stratfor, Inc.

Baker received his J.D., with honors, from the University of Michigan Law School, a Ph.D. in Political Thought from the University of London, and his B.A., magna cum laude, from the University of Dallas.

Baker has written many articles, book chapters, and academic publications and has argued in federal court, including two oral arguments in front of the Supreme Court.