Book Lawrence Lessig

Lawrence Lessig is an American law professor and activist who holds the Roy L. Furman chair at Harvard Law School and founded of Creative Commons, the licensing system that lets creators share their work freely. A former director of Harvard's Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, he has also taught at Stanford, where he founded the Center for Internet and Society, and the University of Chicago. Before his academic career he clerked for Judge Richard Posner and for Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. His influential books include Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace (1999), The Future of Ideas (2001), Free Culture (2004), Code: Version 2.0 (2006), Remix (2008) and Republic, Lost (2011). Lessig also launched Science Commons, Rootstrikers, Mayday PAC, The Electors Trust and Equal Citizens, campaigning to reduce the influence of money in politics, and he sought the Democratic nomination for president in 2016 before withdrawing ahead of the primaries. His honors include the Scientific American 50 (2002), the FSF Award for the Advancement of Free Software (2003), the Berlin Prize (2007) and the Webby Lifetime Achievement Award (2014). Lessig is a sharp, persuasive speaker on technology, copyright and democracy.