Lawrence Lessig

Lawrence Lessig is a professor of law at Stanford Law School and founder of the school’s Center for Internet and Society. He teaches and writes in the areas of constitutional law, contracts, and the law of cyberspace. He has earned undergraduate degrees in economics and management from the University of Pennsylvania, a master's in philosophy from Cambridge, and a J.D. from Yale. Prior to joining the Stanford faculty, he was the Berkman Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and a professor at the University of Chicago. He clerked for Judge Richard Posner on the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals and Justice Antonin Scalia on the Supreme Court. He is the author of several books, including Free Culture, The Future of Ideas, and Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace. He also chairs the Creative Commons project and serves on the board of Free Press, the Free Software Foundation, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Public Library of Science, and Public Knowledge.