Lawrence Lessig
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Lawrence Larry Lessig is the director of Harvard University's Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics, and also a Law Professor at Harvard Law School.[1]
Academic Experience[edit | edit source]
Mr. Lessig worked within the University of Chicago Law School until 1997. Mr. Lessig was the Chair of Berkman Professor of Law in Harvard University until 2000, followed by a position in Stanford Law School where he established the Stanford's Center for Internet and Society. In 2008, Mr. Lessig returned to Harvard for the positions he continues to hold today.[2] The activity Mr. Lessig performs within the Center for Ethics is related to the issue of "institutional corruption", and it focuses on a 5 year project that addresses institutional corruption in different institutional contexts. [3]
Publications[edit | edit source]
Mr. Lessig was very preoccupied with the issue of law and technology and the way in which these affect copyright. He is the author of various books on the topic:
- Remix, 2008
- Code v2, 2007
- Free Culture, 2004
- The future of ideas, 2001
- Code and other laws of Cyberspace, 1999 [4]
A member of numerous boards[edit | edit source]
Among the numerous boards, Mr. Lessig is part of we will enumerate:
- A founding board member of Creative Commons, a non-profit organization that devotes its activity to expanding the range of creative works legally available for share; [5]
- A member of MAPLight, a nonprofit research organization that aims at providing citizens and journalists with the tools necessary for better understanding the way in which money influence politics; [6]
- A co-founder of "Change Congress", a movement that aims at restoring public trust in the American government; [7]
- A member of iCommons, a charity foundation that promotes the access to knowledge, open education, open access publishing all over the world. [8]
Lawrence Lessig and ICANN[edit | edit source]
Mr. Lessig played a very important role in the foundation of ICANN in reviewing the different proposals and supervising it from a legal point of view. [9]
Education[edit | edit source]
- BA in Economics, BS in Management, University of Pennsylvania
- MA in Philosophy, University of Cambridge
- Juris Doctor from Yale Law School [10]
References[edit | edit source]
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