Lawrence Lessig

Roy L. Furman Professorship of Law and Leadership

Director, Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, Harvard University

Research Interests

• Constitutional Law
• Institutional Ethics

Education

• University of Pennsylvania (Wharton) B.S. 1983, Management
• University of Pennsylvania B.A. 1983, Economics
• Trinity College, Cambridge University M.A. 1986, Philosophy
• Yale Law School J.D. 1989

Appointments

• Visiting Professor of Law, 1997
• Professor of Law, 1997-2000
• Jack N. and Lillian R. Berkman Professor for Entrepreneurial Legal Studies, 1998-2000
• Faculty Director, Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, 2009
• Professor of Law, 2009
• Roy L. Furman Professor of Law, 2011

Other Information

2011-2012 Faculty Disclosures re: Related Outside Interests and Activities

Biographical Statement

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, The American Academy, Berlin, AXA Research Fund and iCommons.org, and is on 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.

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