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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.
- Lester Lawrence Lessig III, June 3, 1961 (age 62), Rapid City, South Dakota, US
- Brian Pellot
- He was a choirboy. As a kid, Lessig sang in his church choir in Williamsport, Pa., and went on to attend the nonsectarian American Boychoir School in Princeton, N.J., where a choir director sexually abused him and other classmates.
- He lost his faith in England. Lessig says he grew up a church-going “right-wing lunatic Republican” and entered Trinity College at the University of Cambridge as a “libertarian theist” in his early 20s.
- He clerked for the Catholic Scalia. After ditching his Republican roots and earning a law degree from Yale, Lessig clerked for Judge Richard Posner in Chicago and conservative Catholic Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia in Washington, D.C.
- The man loves freedom. Lessig is a founding father of the free culture movement, which opposes excessively strict copyright rules, on the grounds that they restrict creativity.
Jan 8, 2015 · Harvard law professor Lawrence Lessig shares his vision for campaign finance reform and his crowdfunded super PAC. [7 p.m., Jewish Community Center, 3200 California St., S.F.]
Harvard professor Lawrence Lessig on why AI and social media are causing a free speech crisis for the internet. October 24, 2023. Today, I’m talking to Harvard law professor and internet policy legend Lawrence Lessig. Larry is a defining expert when it comes to free speech and….
Oct 24, 2023 · Today, I’m talking to Harvard law professor and internet policy legend Lawrence Lessig. Larry is a defining expert when it comes to free speech and the internet. He’s taught law for more than ...
- Nilay Patel
When HLS Professor Lawrence Lessig was named as the director of the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard in 2008, he announced his intention to create a limited-time project to research the problem of institutional corruption in the U.S. He launched that project, the Edmund J. Safra Research Lab, in 2010, as a […]
Oct 19, 2015 · Last year, Lessig raised over $10 million for his May Day superPAC to support candidates who vowed to reform the campaign finance system. But in 2014, most of his candidates lost. So now he is ...
