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A year after Swartz's tragic death, Lessig continues his campaign to free US politics from the stranglehold of corruption. In this fiery, deeply personal talk, he calls for all citizens to engage, and offers a heartfelt reminder to never give up hope.
In 2007, just after his last TED Talk, Lessig announced he was leaving the field of IP and Internet policy, and moving on to a more fundamental problem that blocks all types of sensible policy -- the corrupting influence of money in American politics.
Lester Lawrence Lessig III (born June 3, 1961) is an American legal scholar and political activist. He is the Roy L. Furman Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and the former director of the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University. [1] He is the founder of Creative Commons and Equal Citizens.
We have allowed a radical inequality to evolve within our political system; we don’t see it, but we must repair it if we’re to have a democracy that might count. Professor Lawrence Lessig explains that our democracy is failing, not because there are too many Republicans in Congress, or too many Democrats, but because the basic commitment of ...
Mar 6, 2010 · 8. 9. 31K views 13 years ago. Lawrence Lessig is the director of the Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics, and a Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. Prior to returning to Harvard, he ...
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Apr 4, 2014 · 00:00. 13:44. Lawrence Lessig: The unstoppable walk to political reform. by. TED.com. Publication date. 2014-04-04. Usage. Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0. Topics. TedTalks, TED, Talks, corruption, government, politics, TED2014, 2014. Contributor. Access Humboldt - Eureka, CA. Language. English.
Apr 15, 2013 · Lawrence Lessig: We the People, and the Republic we must reclaim That’s the argument at the core of his blistering talk from TED2013. In his new TED Book, Lesterland, Lessig takes a deeper look at the problem and describes a powerful method for fixing this broken system.
