Lawrence Lessig

J.P. Morgan Fellow - Class of Fall 2006, Class of Spring 2007
Harvard Law School
Biography
Lawrence Lessig is the Roy L. Furman Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, and director of the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University. Prior to rejoining the Harvard faculty, Lessig was a professor at Stanford Law School, where he founded the school’s Center for Internet and Society, and at the University of Chicago. He clerked for Judge Richard Posner on the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals and Justice Antonin Scalia on the United States Supreme Court. Lessig serves on the board of Creative Commons, MAPLight, Brave New Film Foundation, AXA Research Fund and iCommons.org, and on the the advisory board of the Sunlight Foundation. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Philosophical Association, and has received numerous awards, including the Free Software Foundation's Freedom Award, Fastcase 50 Award, and being named one of Scientific American's Top 50 Visionaries. Lessig holds a BA in economics and a BS in management from the University of Pennsylvania, an MA in philosophy from Cambridge, and a JD from Yale.
Selected Works
Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Creativity (Penguin Press, 2004)
The Future of Ideas: The Fate of the Commons in a Connected World (Random House, 2001)
Code, and Other Laws of Cyberspace (Basic Books, 1999)
Lecture Summary
What We Should (Finally) Have Learned about Law and Culture on the Internet
To watch a video of Lawrence Lessig's multimedia talk and the post-lecture discussion with Rene Schuster, CEO of O2 Telefonica, please click
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Fieldnotes on the Hybrid Economy
The Internet is reviving a culture of amateur creativity — meaning creativity by people who create out of love, not for money. In this lecture, Lessig describes efforts within the Internet community to exploit this revived creativity. What rules constrain companies such as Flickr, MySpace, or YouTube? How far can they go?
The Internet is reviving a culture of amateur creativity — meaning creativity by people who create out of love, not for money. In this lecture, Lessig describes efforts within the Internet community to exploit this revived creativity. »
