Lawrence Lessig is the Roy L. Furman Professor of Law and Leadership at Harvard Law School.
Prof. Lessig is:
- the founder of EqualCitizens and a
- founding board member of Creative Commons.
- Cited by The New Yorker as “the most important thinker on intellectual property in the Internet era,”
Lessig has focused much of his career on law and technology, especially as it affects copyright. His current work addresses “institutional corruption”—relationships which, while legal, weaken public trust in an institution—especially as that affects democracy.
Some of his books include:
- They Don’t Represent Us: Reclaiming Our Democracy (November 2019),
- Fidelity & Constraint: How the Supreme Court Has Read the American Constitution (May 2019) and
- America, Compromised (2018).
Lessig holds a BA in economics and a BS in management from the University of Pennsylvania, an MA in philosophy from Cambridge University, and a JD from Yale.
Please join Prof. Lessig for a live YouTube session on reforming democracy amid COVID19 moderated by Adlai E. Stevenson High School senior Victor Shi.
