Lawrence Lessig
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Lessig in 2015
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| Director of the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University Professor of Law at Harvard Law School |
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Assumed office 2005 |
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| Preceded by | redrawn district |
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Lester Lawrence Lessig III June 3, 1961 Rapid City, South Dakota |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse(s) | Bettina Neuefeind (m. 1999) |
| Children | 3 |
| Education | B.S. in management B.A. in economics M.A. in philosophy J.D. |
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University of Pennsylvania Trinity College, Cambridge Yale University |
| Website | www |
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 Q&A: Lawrence Lessig (58:48), C-SPAN
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Larry Lessig: Laws that choke creativity (19:08), TED talks
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TEDxNYED – Lawrence Lessig (19:07), TEDx talks
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Lester Lawrence "Larry" Lessig III (born June 3, 1961) is an American academic, attorney, 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. Lessig was a candidate for the Democratic Party's nomination for President of the United States in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, but withdrew before the primaries.
Lessig is a proponent of reduced legal restrictions on copyright, trademark, and radio frequency spectrum, particularly in technology applications. In 2001, he founded Creative Commons, a non-profit organization devoted to expanding the range of creative works available for others to build upon and to share legally. Prior to his most recent appointment at Harvard, he was a professor of law at Stanford Law School, where he founded the Center for Internet and Society, and at the University of Chicago. He is a former board member of the Free Software Foundation and Software Freedom Law Center; the Washington, D.C. lobbying groups Public Knowledge and Free Press; and the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
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