LAWRENCE LESSIG
Lawrence Lessig
559 Nathan Abbott Way
Stanford, CA 94305
650-736-0999
EDUCATION
Yale Law School, New Haven, Ct.
J.D., 1989.
Trinity College; Cambridge University, Cambridge,
England
M.A. Philosophy, 1986; Honors First Class.
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa.
B.A. Economics, B.S. Management (Wharton), 1983.
EMPLOYMENT AND POSITIONS
Creative Commons
Chairman of the Board.
Stanford Law School; Stanford University
Professor of Law, 2000. Director, Center for Internet
and Society. Courses taught: Contracts,
Constitutional Law I, Constitutional Law II, Open
Sources, Patents in Developing Worlds, Architectures
of Identity, Law of the Virtual World, Contracts II.
Red Herring
Bi-monthly Columnist, 2002-.
CIO Insight
Columnist, 2002-.
Public Knowledge; Washington, DC
Member of the Board.
Electronic Frontier Foundation; San Francisco, CA
Member of the Board.
Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin; Berlin, Germany
Fellow, 1999-2000.
Harvard Law School; Harvard University
Jack N. and Lillian R. Berkman Professor for
Entrepreneurial Legal Studies, 1998; Professor of
Law, 1997-2000; Visiting Professor of Law, Winter
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term, 1997.Courses taught: Contracts, Constitutional
Law, The Microsoft Case, The Law of Cyberspace:
Social Protocols, The High-Tech Entrepreneur,
Fidelity (seminar).
The Industry Standard
Monthly Columnist, 1998-2001.
RedHat Center for the Public Domain
Board Member, 2000-2001.
The Law School; University of Chicago
Assistant Professor of Law, 1991-1995; Professor of
Law, 1995-97. Co-Director, Center for the Study of
Constitutionalism in Eastern Europe. Courses taught:
Constitutional Law I (federalism, separation of
powers, judicial review); Constitutional Law II (free
speech); Contracts; The Law of Cyberspace
(Seminar); The Public Good (Seminar);
arative
Comp
Constitutional Law (Seminar); Legal Theory
Workshop (Seminar); Fidelity Theory: Theories of
Originalism (Seminar); Antitrust.
Penn National Commission on Society, Culture and
Community, University of Pennsylvania,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Commission Member.
Program on Ethics and the Professions, Harvard
University, Cambridge, MA.
Fellow, 1996-1997.
The Yale Law School, Yale University
Visiting Professor of Law, Spring term, 1995.
Courses Taught: The Law of Cyberspace, Antitrust.
Lexis-Nexis Electronic Authors Press
Member of the Editorial Advisory Board, 1995-1997.
Lexis Counsel Connect
Moderator, Constitutional Law Discussion Group,
1994-1995.
Legal Studies Programme, CEU Budapest College,
Budapest, Hungary
Lecturer in LLM program for Eastern and Central
European lawyers, teaching Law and Economics,
Separation of Powers, and Constitutional Privacy.
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Summer, 1992, 1993, 1995 (Budapest); 1994
(Moscow).
Justice Antonin Scalia; United States Supreme Court
Law Clerk; 1990-1991.
Judge Richard Posner; U.S. Court of Appeals, Seventh
Circuit
Law Clerk; 1989-1990.
TESTIMONY AND LITIGATION
Comments on Rulemaking on Anti-circumvention (2003)
Copyright Office.
Eldred v. Ashcroft (2003)
Counsel of Record in challenge to 1998 Sonny Bono
Copyright Term Extension Act.
Universal Music v. Corley (2001)
Amicus Brief.
Simon v. AT&T (2001)
Plaintiffs’ expert.
A&M Records v. Napster (2000)
Defendant’s expert .
Microsystems Software v. Scandinavia Online (1999)
Amicus Brief filed.
United States v. Microsoft (1997-2002)
Amicus brief filed
Testimony before Senate Committee on the Judiciary.
In the Matter of AT&T/Media One (1998)
FCC filing (with Mark Lemley).
ICANN DNS Proposal (1998)
NTIA comments.
Child Online Protection Act (1998)
Testimony before House Subcommittee on
Telecommunications and Consumer Protection.
Anti-Paparazzi Legislation (1998)
Testimony before House Judiciary Committee .
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PUBLICATIONS AND WORK IN PROGRESS
Books
The Future of Ideas: The Fate of the Commons in a
Connected World
Random House, 2001.
Code, and Other Laws of Cyberspace
Basic Books, 1999.
Free Culture
Random House, forthcoming, 2003.
The Fidelity in Translation
Work in Progress.
Articles
The Creative Commons
RBL, Tokyo (2003).
The Place of Cyberlaw
In THE PLACE OF LAW (Austin Sarat & Martha
Merrill Umphrey, eds. 2002).
Open Source Baselines: Compared to What?
In GOVERNMENT POLICY TOWARD OPEN SOURCE
SOFTWARE (Robert W. Hahn, ed. 2002).
Privacy as Property
69 Social Research 247 (2002).
The Architecture of Innovation
51 Duke Law Journal 1783 (2002).
The End of End-to-End: Preserving the Architecture of
the Internet in the Broadband Era
(with Mark Lemley)
48 UCLA Law Review 925 (2001).
Preface to a Conference on Trust
81 B.U.L. Rev. 329 (2001).
The Internet Under Siege
Foreign Policy, November 1, 2001.
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Privacy and Attention Span
89 Georgetown Law Journal 2063 (2001).
Copyright’s First Amendment
48 UCLA Law Review 1057 (2001).
Innovation
49 Drake Law Review 397 (2001).
A Roundtable Discussion with Lawrence Lessig, David G.
Post, and Jeffrey Rosen; Moderated and
Edited by Thomas E. Baker
49 Drake Law Review 441 (2001).
Foreword: Conference on Internet Privacy
52 Stanford Law Review 987 (2000).
The Death of Cyberspace
57 Washington & Lee Law Review 337 (2000).
Code is Law: On Liberty in Cyberspace
Harvard Magazine, January-February 2000.
Innovation, Regulation and the Internet
11 American Prospect (March 27, 2000).
On the Contribution of Robert Fano
Proceedings of the IEEE (December 1999).
The Law of the Horse: What Cyberlaw Might Teach
113 Harvard Law Review 501 (1999) .
Zoning Internet Speech (with Paul Resnick)
98 Michigan Law Review 395(1999).
The Limits in Open Code: Regulatory Standards and the
Future of the Net
14 Berkeley Technology Law Journal 759 (1999).
The Architecture of Privacy
1 Vanderbilt Entertainment Law and Practice (1999).
Commons and Code
9 Fordham Intellectual Property, Media and
Entertainment Law Journal 459 (1999).
Federalism’s Text
66 George Washington Law Review 1218 (1998).
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What Things Regulate Speech
38 Jurimetrics 629 (Summer 1998).
The New Chicago School
27 Journal of Legal Studies 661 (1998).
Judicial Reputation: A Citation Analysis of Federal Courts
of Appeals Judges
(co-authors, William Landes, Michael Solimine),
Journal of Legal Studies (1998).
The Erie-Effects of Volume 110: An Essay on Context in
Constitutional Theory
110 Harvard Law Review 1785 (1997).
Lessons from a Line Item Veto Law
47 Case Western Reserve Law Review 1659 (1997).
The Puzzling Persistence of Bellbottom Theory: What a
Constitutional Theory Should Be
85 Georgetown Law Journal 1837 (1997).
The Constitution of Code: Limitations on Choice-based
Critiques of Cyberspace Regulation
5 CommLaw Conspectus 181 (1997).
Intellectual Property and Code
11 St. Johns Journal of Legal Commentary 635
(1997).
Constitution and Code
27 Cumberland Law Review 1 (1997).
Fidelity and Constraint
65 Fordham Law Review 1365 (1997).
Reading the Constitution in Cyberspace
45 Emory Law Review 869 (1996).
The Zones of Cyberspace
48 Stanford Law Review 1403 (1996).
Translating Federalism
1995 Supreme Court Review 125 (1996).
What Drives Derivability: Response to Responding to
Imperfection (Book Review)
74 Texas Law Review 839 (1996).
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Post-Constitutionalism (Book Review)
94 Michigan Law Review 1422 (1996).
Making Sense of the Hague Tribunal
Eastern European Constitutional Review, Fall, 1996.
Grounding the Virtual Magistrate
(co-author Jack Goldsmith)
http://www.law.vill.edu/ncair/disres/groundvm.htm .
Social Meaning and Social Norms
144 U. Pa. L. Rev. 2181 (1996).
The Limits of Lieber
16 Cardozo L. Rev. 2249 (1995).
The Path of Cyberlaw
104 Yale L.J. 1743 (1995).
The Regulation of Social Meaning
62 U. Chi. L. Rev. 943 (1995).
Understanding Changed Readings: Fidelity and Theory
47 Stanford Law Review 395 (1995).
An Introduction to the New Russian Constitutional Court
Eastern European Constitutional Review, Winter,
1995.
An Empirical Analysis of the 7th Circuit
43 De Paul Law Review 825 (1994).
A Review of the Russian Constitution: Separation of
Powers
ABA CEELI Project Report, January, 1994.
The President and the Administration
With Cass Sunstein, 94 Columbia Law Review 1
(1994).
The Path of the Presidency
3 East European Constitutional Review 104 (1994).
Readings by Our Unitary Executive
15 Cardozo Law Review 175 (1993).
Fidelity in Translation
71 Texas Law Review 1165 (1993).
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Plastics: Unger and Ackerman on Transformation
98 Yale Law Review 1173 (1989).
Essays
Protecting Mickey Mouse at Art’s Expense
New York Times, January 18, 2003.
Copyright Law and Roasted Pig
Red Herring, October 22, 2002.
Time to End the Race for Ever-Longer Copyright
Financial Times, October 17, 2002.
A Bounty on Spammers
CIO Insight, September 16, 2002.
Anti-Trusting Microsoft
Red Herring, September 10, 2002.
Hollywood v. Silicon Valley: Make Code, Not War
CIO Insight, June 17, 2002.
Who’s Holding Back Broadband?
Washington Post, January 8, 2002, p. A17.
May the Source Be With You
Wired, December 2001, p. 78.
The Internet’s Undoing
Financial Times, November 29, 2001, p. 23.
It’s Still a Safe World for Microsoft
New York Times, November 9, 2001.
Visible Hand
The Industry Standard, August 13, 2001.
Jail Time in the Digital Age
New York Times, July 30, 2001. p.A17.
Jail Time, Digital Style
Moscow Times, July 31, 2001. p.12.
Antitrust and Verify: Will Microsoft Admit It Has Lost?
The New Republic, July 23, 2001, p.14.
The Limits of Credibility
The Industry Standard, July 23, 2001.
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Artful Dodges
The Industry Standard, June 18, 2001.
Copyright Thugs
The Industry Standard, May 7, 2001.
Let the Stories Go
New York Times, April 30, 2001.
Just Compensation
The Industry Standard, April 16, 2001.
Adobe in Wonderland
The Industry Standard, March 19, 2001.
The Rules of Politics
The Industry Standard, January 15, 2001.
The Rules of Law
The Industry Standard, December 4, 2000.
Straitjacket on the Internet
Washington Post, October 25, 2000.
Copyrights’ Rule
The Industry Standard, October 2, 2000.
Behind the Curtain
The Industry Standard, September 4, 2000.
Right Back At Ya
The Industry Standard, July 24, 2000.
Europe’s “Me-Too” Patent Law
Financial Times, July 11, 2000.
End Game
The New Republic, June 19, 2000.
The Limits of Copyright
The Industry Standard, June 19, 2000.
Will AOL Own Everything?
Time, June 19, 2000.
A Letter to Bill
The Industry Standard, June 5, 2000.
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Cracking the Microsoft Case
Boston Globe, June 5, 2000
with Larry Kramer.
Technology Will Solve Web Privacy Problems
Wall Street Journal, May 31, 2000.
In search of Skeptics
The Industry Standard, April 17, 2000.
Battling Censorware
The Industry Standard, April 3, 2000.
Online Patents: Keep Them Pending
Wall Street Journal, March 23, 2000.
Cyberspace Prosecutor
The Industry Standard, February 21, 2000.
Patent Problems
The Industry Standard, January 21, 2000.
The Net, Version 2000
The Industry Standard, December 27, 1999.
The Prolific Iconoclast: Richard Posner
American Lawyer 109, December 1999.
The Code of Cyberspace
The Industry Standard, December 6, 1999.
G-Rated Browsers
The Industry Standard, December 3, 1999.
Architecting Innovation
The Industry Standard, November 14, 1999.
Filtering Content
The Industry Standard, October 15, 1999.
Thinking Different(ly)
The Industry Standard, September 10, 1999.
The Cable Debate, Pt. II
The Industry Standard, July 20, 1999.
Broadband Blackmail
The Industry Standard, June 15, 1999.
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Coding Privacy
The Industry Standard, May 20, 1999.
The Problem with Patents
The Industry Standard, April 23, 1999.
The Code is the Law
The Industry Standard, April 9, 1999.
Memo to the Leviathan
The Industry Standard, March 5, 1999.
Pain in the OS
The Industry Standard, February 5, 1999.
The Spam Wars
The Industry Standard, December 31, 1998.
Net Gains
New Republic, December 14, 1998.
Sign It and Weep
The Industry Standard, November 20, 1998.
Digital Dog Tags
The Industry Standard, October 16, 1998.
A Bad Turn for Net Governance
The Industry Standard, September 18, 1998.
Tyranny in the Infrastructure
Wired Magazine, 5.07, July, 1997.
A Good Plan for a Bad Idea
op-ed, Wall Street Journal, December 6, 1996.
An End Run to a Balanced Budget
op-ed, L.A. Times, January 17, 1995.
The Supreme Court and Our Future
38 University of Chicago Law School Record 13
(1992).
ADDRESSES, CONFERENCES, SEMINARS AND WORKSHOPS
InfoSec World 2003
March 10, 2003
Orlando, Florida
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South by Southwest 2003
March 9, 2003
Austin, Texas
Talk:“Building a Layer of Sanity into the World of
IP”
Hewlett Foundation Open Knowledge Meeting
March 3, 2003
Menlo Park, California
Spectrum Policy: Property or Commons?
Stanford Law School
March 1-2, 2003
Stanford, California
The Law & Technology of DRM
University of California, Berkeley
February 28, 2003
Berkeley, California
Panel: “Impacts of DRMs on flows of Information”.
Bell Labs General Research Colloquium
February 21, 2003
Murray Hill, New Jersey
Princeton Walter E. Edge Lecture
Princeton University
February 20, 2003
Princeton, New Jersey
Digital Rights Summit
Intel Corporation
February 19, 2003
Santa Clara, California
World Summit on the Information Society
February 17 2003
Geneva, Switzerland
Chicago Historical Society Debate
February 15, 2003
Chicago, Illinois
Digital Rights Management Conference
BBC London
February 7, 2003
London, England
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The Politics of Code Conference
Oxford University
February 6, 2003
Oxford, England
Keynote: “Shaping the Future of the Next Internet”.
Business Law Center Lecture
University of Tokyo Faculty of Law .
November 28, 2002.
Lecture: The Creative Commons .
Symposium on The Rule of Law and New
Communications Technologies: Reconciling
Private Rights and Public Interest, The
Catholic University of America
October 10, 2002.
Washington, DC.
Keynote: “The Tragedy of the Innovation Commons?
Reconciling Private Claims with Public Interest”.
Free Software Foundation Benefit
August 14, 2002.
San Francisco, California.
New Democrat Network
Palo Alto, CA.
August 12, 2002.
panel: “The Future of Digital Media”.
Spectrum Policy Task Force
Federal Communications Commission.
August 1, 2002.
Washington, DC.
Syllabus Conference on Education Technology
July 30, 2002.
Santa Clara, California.
Keynote: "To Promote the Progress of Science: Law's
regulation of the Creative Process.”.
O’Reilly Open Source Convention
July 24, 2002.
San Diego, California.
Keynote: “Freeing Culture”.
Designing for Resiliency, TTI/Vanguard Conference
Brussels, Belgium.
July 16, 2002.
Talk: “The Architecture of Resiliency”.
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Information Ownership and Control
July 13, 2002.
Rüschlikon, Switzerland.
Internet Law Program
Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Harvard
Law School.
July 1-5, 2002.
Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Technology and Innovation Forum
June 27, 2002.
Washington, DC.
The Economics of Open Source Software
L'Institut d'Economie Industrielle (IDEI).
June 21, 2002.
Toulouse, France.
INET 2002
The Internet Society.
June 19, 2002.
Washington, DC.
American Library Association
June 16, 2002.
Atlanta, Georgia.
Lecture: The Creative Commons.
USENIX Annual Technical Conference
June 13, 2002.
Monterey, California.
Keynote: The Internet’s Coming Silent Spring
Law and Informatics Research Institute (IRI), Stockholm
University
June 10, 2002.
Stockholm, Sweden.
The Information Society
The Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences.
June 7, 2002.
Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Keynote: Code as Law on Cyberspace
TERENA Networking Conference
June 3, 2002.
Limerick, Ireland.
Keynote: Free Culture
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Mechanics’ Institute Library
May 30, 2002.
San Francisco, California.
BIG Brains: Technology Forecasts for 2002 and Beyond,
Business Internet Group
May 29, 2002.
San Francisco, California.
World Economic Forum
May 22, 2002.
Washington, DC.
O’Reilly Emerging Technology Conference
May 16, 2002.
Santa Clara, California.
Keynote Creating the Commons
Digital Law 2002
May 8, 2002.
San Paulo, BRAZIL.
Dunwody Distinguished Lecture
University of Florida Levin College of Law.
April 26, 2002.
Gainesville, Florida.
Digital Landscapes: Redrawing the Boundaries in
Entertainment, Media, and the Law
SLATA Conference.
April 20, 2002.
Stanford, California.
Free Code, Free Speech, Free Culture
Boston University.
April 11, 2002.
Boston, Massachusetts.
American Constitutional Society Lecture
April 5, 2002.
Washington, DC.
Georgetown Hart Lecture
April 4, 2002.
Washington, DC.
Hochelaga Lectures, University of Hong Kong
March 25, 2002.
Hong Kong, CHINA.
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Workshop in Law, Philosophy and Political Theory
Judge William H. Orrick, Jr. Visiting Lecture.
University of California, Boalt Hall.
March 14, 2002.
Berkeley, California.
“Developments in Copyright”
South by Southwest Interactive Festival.
March 9, 2002.
Austin, Texas.
From Text to Performance: Law and Other Performing
Arts
University of Texas at Austin School of Law.
March 7, 2002.
Austin, Texas.
World Congress on Information Technology
Adelaide, Australia.
March 1, 2002.
McCarthy Center for Intellectual Property and
Technology Law Speaker Series
USF School of Law.
February 21, 2002.
San Francisco, California.
Hogan & Hartson Jurimetrics Lecture in honor of Lee
Loevinger, ASU College of Law
February 14, 2002.
Tempe, Arizona.
Lecture: Architecting the Innovation Commons.
American Assembly
Columbia University.
February 9, 2002.
Harriman, New York.
Is Open Source the Future of Software?
AEI-Brookings Joint Center Open Source Event.
February 8, 2002.
Washington, DC.
Tenzer Distinguished Lecture in Intellectual Property Law
Cardozo University.
February 7, 2002.
New York, New York.
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Political Science Institute: Political and legal issues of
Cyberspace in times of crisis
February 1, 2002.
Paris, FRANCE.
University of Colorado at Boulder, School of Law
Regulation of Information Platforms Symposium.
January 27, 2002.
Boulder, Colorado.
University of Toronto
January, 2002.
Toronto, Canada.
Seminar: The Law of Cyberspace.
Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS)
January, 2002.
Kona, HI.
Distinguished Lecturer .
Harvard Law School Berkman Center iLaw Seminar
January, 2002.
Singapore.
Lecture: Law, Code, Market, and Social Norms .
Lecture: Privacy.
Yale University Elliot Lecture
December, 2001.
New Haven, Connecticut.
Lecture: Free Commons, Free Culture.
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
December, 2001.
Stanford, CA .
Lecture: How the Architecture Mattered .
Microsoft Campus
November, 2001.
Redmond, WA.
Lecture: The Architecture of Innovation.
USC Annenberg School for Communication
November, 2001.
Los Angeles, CA.
Lecture: Innovation and the Internet .
Debate with Jack Valenti, President, MPAA:
Creativity, Commerce and Culture .
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Darklight Digital Film Festival
November, 2001.
Dublin, Ireland.
Lecture.
Duke University Public Domain Conference
November, 2001.
Durham, NC.
Lecture: Networks: The Public Domain in Bandwidth,
Software and Content.
Master of Business Law Program, University of St. Gallen
November, 2001.
Austin, TX.
Lecture: Broadband, Interactive Networks Law.
O’Reilly Peer-to-Peer Conference
November, 2001.
Washington, DC.
Lecture: Preserving the Innovation Commons:
What’s Really at Stake.
RIETI Conference
October, 2001.
Tokyo, Japan.
Lecture: The Architecture of Innovation.
ACM/IEEE Lecture
October, 2001.
Los Angeles, CA.
Lecture: The Innovation Commons.
Trademarks in Cyberspace Forum
October, 2001.
Chicago, IL.
Lecture: Keynote Address.
Linux World
August, 2001.
San Francisco, CA.
Lecture: The New New Old War.
American Association of Law Libraries
July, 2001.
Minneapolis, MN.
Lecture: The Law of Cyberspace.
8th Circuit Judicial Conference
July, 2001.
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St. Louis, MO .
MIT 21st Century Trust
July, 2001.
Boston, MA.
Lecture: Innovation and the Internet.
Harvard Law School Berkman Center iLaw Seminar
July, 2001.
Cambridge, MA.
Lecture: Law, Code, Market, and Social Norms .
Lecture: Speech on the Internet .
Lecture: Internet Governance.
Rüschlikon Conference on Information Law and Policy
June, 2001.
Rüschlikon, Switzerland.
Panel: Competition, Antitrust & Access.
International Conference on Cyberlaw
June, 2001.
Portugal.
Lecture: Cyber Law in the U.S.A.
Forbes CEO Forum 2001
June, 2001.
Scottsdale, AZ.
Panel: Balancing Customer Intimacy With the Call
for Privacy.
Intel
June, 2001.
Hillsboro, OR.
Lecture: Workshop on IP.
ICTI World Toy Conference
June, 2001.
Pasadena, CA.
Panel: IP and Innovation.
Chaos Control Conference
May, 2001.
Vienna, Austria.
Lecture: Coding Control.
Stanford Faculty Workshop Presentation
May, 2001.
Stanford, CA.
Lecture: Copyright’s First Amendment.
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Stanford Law Society Panel
May, 2001.
San Francisco, CA.
Title: What’s Happening at the Supreme Court.
Berkman Center’s Open Spectrum Workshop
May, 2001.
Cambridge, MA.
Berkeley SIMS Graduation
May, 2001.
Berkeley, CA.
Lecture: Graduation Lecture.
Center for the Public Domain
May, 2001.
Washington, DC.
Title: Intellectual Property and Innovation.
LCS Distinguished Lecturer Series, MIT
May, 2001.
Cambridge, MA.
Lecture: Coding Innovation.
Center for Media Education
May, 2001.
Washington, D.C.
Keynote: .Commons.
International Conference on Intellectual Property in
Cyberspace
May, 2001.
Stresa, Italy.
Lecture: IP and Innovation.
Asilomar Microcomputer Workshop 2001: A Tech
Odyssey
April, 2001.
Asilomar, CA.
Panel: Spectrum Policy & Wireless Technology in
Indian Country.
BusinessWeek Broadband Telecom Summit 2001
April, 2001.
Dallas, TX.
Keynote: Next Victim? Will the Microsoft Antitrust
Case Have Its Broadband Equivalent?.
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SD 2001: Software Development Conference
April, 2001.
San Jose, CA.
Keynote: Architecting Innovation.
Uncommon Knowledge TV Program
April, 2001.
Stanford, CA.
Topic: Regulation and the Future of Cyberspace.
Digital Property Lecture, Santa Clara Law School
April, 2001.
Santa Clara, CA.
Lecture: Law of the Horse.
Verizon Foundation Distinguished Lecture Series,
Carnegie Mellon University
April, 2001.
Pittsburgh, PA.
Lecture: The Internet and the Future of Democracy.
Washington University Center for Interdisciplinary
Studies Conference
March, 2001.
St. Louis, MO.
Session: Norms of the Commons.
Copyright Law Forum
March, 2001.
Ottawa, Canada.
Keynote: Innovation on the Internet.
Kip & Meredith Frey Lecture, Duke Law School
March, 2001.
Durham, NC.
Lecture: Architecting Innovation.
Princeton Program in Ethics & Public Affairs Seminar
March, 2001.
Princeton, NJ.
Lecture: Patience.
Princeton Institute for Advanced Study Lecture
March, 2001.
Princeton, NJ.
Lecture: The Architecture of Innovation.
Keck Lecture, Amherst University
March, 2001.
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Amherst, MA.
Lecture: The Place of Law.
National Academy of Sciences Protecting Children from
Pornography Testimony
March, 2001.
Redwood City, CA.
Berkeley Center for Law & Technology Beyond Microsoft
Conference
March, 2001.
Berkeley, CA.
Panel Participant.
Melville B. Nimmer Memorial Lecture, UCLA
March, 2001.
Los Angeles, CA.
Lecture: Copyright’s First Amendment.
Horatio Ellsworth Kellar Lecture, University of Minnesota
February, 2001.
Minneapolis, MN.
Lecture: Innovation on the Internet.
American Assoc. for the Advancement of Science
“Patenting Genes and Business Methods: Is It
Time for Congress to Cut Back Patent
Protection?” Symposium
February, 2001.
San Francisco, CA.
Symposium on the Constitution and the Internet, Drake
University
February, 2001.
Des Moines, IA.
Lecture: Architecting Innovation.
O’Reilly P2P Conference
February, 2001.
San Francisco, CA.
Keynote: The Future of P2P.
The Constitution and the Individual, University of
Southern California
February, 2001.
Los Angeles, CA.
Lecture: The Law of the Internet.
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Electronic Frontier Foundation BayFF Program
February, 2001.
Stanford, CA.
Lecture: Innovation.
Forbes Forum on Management & Policy
February, 2001.
Laguna Niguel, CA.
Moderator: Balancing Customer Intimacy with the
Call for Privacy.
World Economic Forum Annual Meeting
January, 2001.
Davos, Switzerland.
Napsterization of Hollywood Conference
December, 2000.
Los Angeles, CA.
Panel.
Digital Divide Conference
December, 2000.
Stanford, CA.
Lecture: The Digital Divide.
Business Week Conference on the Digital Economy
December, 2000.
San Francisco, CA.
Lecture: Was the Microsoft Case Just the Beginning?.
Brazil
November, 2000.
São Paolo, Brazil.
Lecture: The Regulation of the Internet.
Washington University Conference
November, 2000.
St. Louis, MO.
Lecture: The Norms of the Commons.
Chile
October, 2000.
Santiago, Chile.
Lecture: The Business of Internet Development.
Regulating on the Technological Edge
October, 2000.
Berkeley, CA.
Lecture: Open Access.
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Judges of the 1st Circuit Conference
October, 2000.
Martha’s Vineyard, MA.
Lecture: Patience.
Privacy Conference, New School University
October, 2000.
New York, NY.
Lecture: Securing Privacy in an Electronic Age.
ISOC Patent Debate
October, 2000.
Washington, D.C.
With Q. Todd Dickinson, Jay Walker, and Tim
O’Reilly.
Berkman Center Debate
October, 2000.
Boston, MA.
Title: The Future of IP: With Jack Valenti.
India Cyberspace
September, 2000.
New Delhi, India.
Lecture: The Future of Internet Innovation.
BigHook 2000
September, 2000.
Boston, MA.
Workshop.
Boston University Conference on Trust
September, 2000.
Boston, MA.
Lecture: Trust.
Conference on Jeff Rosen, The Unwanted Gaze
September, 2000.
Washington, D.C.
Lecture: Privacy and the Internet.
TIAS Business School Seminar
September, 2000.
Brussels, Belgium.
Lecture: Internet Regulation.
John Seely Brown Memorial Lecture, University of
Michigan
September, 2000.
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Ann Arbor, MI.
Lecture: The Environment of Innovation.
Drexel University Conference
July, 2000.
Philadelphia, PA.
Lecture: Freedom and the Internet.
Child Online Privacy Act Testimony
July, 2000.
Richmond, VA
Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu European Conference
June, 2000
Versailles, France
Lecture: Innovation.
Conference on New Institutional Economics
June, 2000
Dresden, Germany
Comment.
Free Software: A Model for Society?
May, 2000
Tützing, Germany
Lecture: Open Code and Open Societies.
Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen
May, 2000
Vienna, Austria
Lecture: The Law in Code.
Internet Summit
May, 2000
Barcelona, Spain
Panel.
The Law of Authoritarian Democracies and
Authoritarianism in Democracy
May, 2000
Budapest, Hungary
Comment.
www9
May, 2000
Amsterdam, Holland
Keynote: Cyberspace’s Architectural Constitution.
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IFLP Internet and Power
May, 2000
Cambridge, UK
Keynote: Law and Power in Cyberspace.
New Yorker Festival
May, 2000
New York, NY
Panel: Business and the Internet.
Brightmail SPAM Summit
May, 2000
Washington, DC
Keynote: e2e Regulation.
Seventh Circuit Judicial Conference
May, 2000
Chicago, IL
Keynote: Regulating Cyberspace.
Ninth Circuit Judicial Conference
April, 2000
Dana Point, CA
Panel: IP in Cyberspace .
New University of Lisbon
April, 2000
Lisbon, Portugal
Lecture: Innovation and Regulation.
A Free Information Ecology in the Digital Environment
April, 2000
New York, NY
Presentation: Cyberspace’s Philosophy and
Philosopher.
Zurich Financial Services
March, 2000
St. Moritz, Switzerland
Lecture: The Regulations of Cyberspace.
Hewlett Packard Science Lecture
March, 2000
Bristol, UK
Lecture: The Constitution of Cyberspace.
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Music Information Center Austria: Open Source,
March, 2000
Vienna, Austria
Lecture: The Limits of Copyright.
pcForum,
March, 2000
Scottsdale, AZ
Lecture: The Code in Law and the Law in Code.
New York New Media Association,
February, 2000
New York, NY
Panel: The Open Source Revolution.
American Academy,
February, 2000
Berlin, DE
Lecture: Cyberspace’s Constitution.
Keynote, Privacy and Cyberspace
February, 2000
Stanford Law Review
Stanford, CA.
Southern Cross University Summer School
December, 1999
Byron Bay, AU
Teaching: The Law of Cyberspace.
IT-University, Policy Lectures
November, 1999
Copenhagen, Denmark
Lecture: Open Content, Open Values.
1984 Fifty Years Later
November, 1999
Chicago, IL
Paper: The Refreshing Code of 1984.
Oxford Intellectual Property Seminar
November, 1999
Oxford, England
Paper: IP and Cyberspace.
The Internet: Does Cyberspace End Sovereignty?
October, 1999
Turin, Italy
Paper: How Lawyers Will Kill the Net .
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The Internet: A Juridical as well as Digital Revolution?
October, 1999
Paris, France
Conference organized by Deputy Christian Paul, of
the French National Assembly.
MacArthur Conference on the New Law and Economics
October, 1999
Chicago, IL
Conference to explore empirical approaches to the
study of social norms and social meaning.
Tucker Lecture; Washington & Lee University Law
School
October, 1999
Lexington, VA
Lecture: The Death of Cyberspace.
The 1999 Forbes CEO Forum: Corporate Darwinism,
Forbes Inc.
June, 1999
Atlanta, GA
Roundtable discussion: Survival of the fittest? A
Darwinian take on Microsoft, regulation and
competition.
Open Code/Open Content/ Open Law
May, 1999
Cambridge MA
Keynote.
Committee on University Resources (COUR) Conference,
Harvard University
April, 1999.
Cambridge, MA
Session: CyberEthics: The Moral Challenge of the
Internet
Roxbury Schools Deliberative Forum, DoSomething, Inc.
April, 1999.
Cambridge, MA
Forum subject: “fairness” in the context of high
school policies.
Computers, Freedom and Privacy 1999 Conference: The
Global Internet
April, 1999.
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Washington, DC
Panel: Self-Regulation Reconsidered.
Private Censorship/ Perfect Choice Conference, Yale Law
School
April, 1999.
New Haven, CT
Paper: The Values in Open Code.
Henry J. Miller Distinguished Lecture, Georgia State
University College of Law
April, 1999.
Atlanta, GA
Paper: Open Code, Open Society.
Competing Competition Laws: Do We Need a Global
Standard?, New England School of Law
March, 1999.
Boston, MA
Panel: Is Reconciliation Possible?.
Conference on Access to U.S. Capital Markets for Israeli
High Tech Companies
March, 1999.
Tel Aviv, Israel
Panel: Issues facing high technology firms in the
current economic and legal climate.
The Legal & Policy Framework for Global Electronic
Commerce Conference, University of
California-Berkeley
March, 1999.
Berkeley, CA
Panel: Setting (and Choosing) Global Technical
Standards.
TechnoPolitics
March, 1999.
Washington, DC
Topic: Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) and Spread
Spectrum.
Fidelity, Economic Liberty and 1937, College of William
and Mary
February, 1999.
Williamsburg, VA
Paper: Contestable Rights.
Lawrence Lessig
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March 5, 2003
New Directions Conference, Kennedy School of
Government
February, 1999.
Cambridge, MA.
The John A. Sibley Lecture, University of Georgia School
of Law
February, 1999.
Athens, GA
Keynote: Internet Governance and the Open Source
Software Movement.
The 1999 Forbes Forum on Management and Policy for
Chief Marketing and Chief Communications
Officers
February, 1999.
Carlsbad, CA
Conference: Brand in an Era of Disruptive
Technologies
Panel: Privacy: What’s Public? What’s Private? And
Who Says?.
Fordham Spring 1999 Symposium on Media Convergence
February, 1999.
New York, NY
Conference: Media Convergence: Necessary, Evil or
Both? The Legal, Economic and Cultural Impacts of
Mega Media Mergers
Keynote address: Code and the Commons.
The 7th Annual Charles Green Lecture in Law and
Technology, Chicago-Kent College of Law
January, 1999.
Chicago, IL.
Colloquium: Kent: The School, the Life and the
Legacy.
Keynote: Overcoming Antitrust: Internet Governance
and the Free Software Movement
.
Representing the New Media Company Conference,
Practicing Law Institute (PLI)
January, 1999.
New York, NY
Keynote: Copyright’s Commons.
Lawrence Lessig
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March 5, 2003
Graduate Legal Studies Program in Georgia Planning
Meeting, Constitutional and Legal Policy
Institute
December, 1998.
Budapest, Hungary.
Digital Directions Speakers Series, University of Virginia
Law School
November, 1998.
Charlottesville, VA
Conference: Information Literacy
Paper: Cyberlaw: The New Frontier.
1998 National Lawyers Convention, The Federalist Society
November, 1998.
Washington, DC
Panel: Property Rights in the 21st Century
Paper: Property in cSpace.
Lecture, University of North Carolina
October, 1998.
Durham, NC
Paper: Internet Governance.
Free Speech: Media, Law & Society Conference, Johns
Hopkins University
October, 1998.
Baltimore, MD
Seminar: Paparazzi and Privacy.
Seventh Annual Lavender Law Conference, National
Lesbian and Gay Association
October, 1998.
Boston, MA
Panel: Issues in Communications Law.
1998 Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility
(CPSR) Annual Conference
October, 1998.
Cambridge, MA
Conference: One Planet, One Net: The Public
Interest in Internet Governance
Keynote: Governance.
Free Speech & Economic Power Symposium,
Northwestern University School of Law
October, 1998.
Lawrence Lessig
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March 5, 2003
Chicago, IL
Commentator on Prof. Owen Fiss’s “Regulating
Television: A New Turn in the Law?”.
The Twenty-Sixth Annual Telecommunication Policy
Research Conference (TPRC)
October, 1998.
Alexandria, VA
Seminar: Content Controls
Paper: The Architectures of Mandated Access
Controls.
GALA Workshop, Boalt Hall School of Law, University of
California – Berkeley
September, 1998.
Berkeley, CA.
Being Connected Conference, Vanguard Program
September, 1998.
McLean, VA
Presentation: Code as Law.
The Program in Ethics and the Professions, Harvard
University
September, 1998.
Cambridge, MA
Keynote: Attention Spam.
Aspen Summit V: Cyberspace & the American Frontier,
The Progress & Freedom Foundation
August, 1998.
Aspen, CO
Keynote: Governance.
Wasatch Weekend, Do Something, Inc.
August, 1998.
Deer Valley, UT.
The Aspen Institute Internet Policy Project
July, 1998.
Aspen, CO.
Conference on Constitutionalism and Democracy, New
York University School of Law
July, 1998.
Florence, Italy.
Lawrence Lessig
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Internet: Towards a New Society?, The International
University Menéndez y Pelayo of Valencia
July, 1998.
Valencia, Spain
Keynote: Internet y la proteccion de los derechos de
la personalidad.
Marshall Symposium. The Information Revolution in
Midstream: An Anglo-American Perspective,
University of Michigan Law School
May, 1998.
Ann Arbor, MI
Panel: Law and Public Policy.
Conference on the Internet & Society, Harvard University
May, 1998.
Cambridge, MA.
Taiwan Net ‘98
March, 1998.
Taipei, Taiwan
Keynote: The Laws of Cyberspace
Seminar: The Architecture of Privacy
http://cyber.harvard.edu/lessigcurres.html .
Textualism and the Constitution, George Washington
School of Law
February, 1998.
Washington, DC
Paper: Textualism and Federalism.
AALS Annual Meeting
January, 1998.
San Francisco, CA.
Paper: Law and Interpretation Section: Interpreting
1937.
Enforcing Constitutional Court Judgments, Constitutional
Court of the Republic of Georgia
November, 1997.
Tbilisi, Georgia
Paper: The History of Enforcement of Supreme Court
Judgments (with Tim Wu).
State Bar of Arizona, CLE
November, 1997.
Tempe, AZ
Paper: The Laws of Cyberspace.
Lawrence Lessig
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DeWitt Higgs Memorial Lecture, Warren College,
University of California, San Diego
October, 1997.
San Diego, CA
Address: The Laws of Cyberspace.
Telecommunications Policy Research Conference
September, 1997.
Washington, DC
Paper: What Things Regulate Speech.
Academy of European Law
June, 1997.
Florence, Italy
Teaching Course in Cyberspace.
Boston University Law School Faculty Workshop
April, 1997.
Boston, MA
Paper: The Law of the Horse: What Cyberlaw Might
Teach.
Vanderbilt School of Law
April, 1997.
Nashville, TN
Paper: The Law of the Horse: What Cyberlaw Might
Teach.
Local Values and Global Telecommunications, National
Research Council
April, 1997.
Washington, DC.
Stanford University Law School
April, 1997.
Stanford, CA
Paper: The Law of the Horse: What Cyberlaw Might
Teach.
Case Western Reserve University Law School
April, 1997.
Cleveland, OH
Conference: Presidential Power
Paper: Lessons from a Line Item Veto Law.
Digital Library Initiative, University of Michigan
March, 1997.
Santa Fe, NM.
Lawrence Lessig
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March 5, 2003
Computers, Freedom, Privacy 1997
March, 1997.
San Francisco, CA
Paper: Law, Norms and Code.
Media Institute, Catholic University
March, 1997.
Washington, DC
Paper: The Constitution As Code.
G.W. U. Law School Legal Theory Workshop
March, 1997.
Washington, DC
Paper: Law, Norms, Code.
Harvard Law School Faculty Workshop
February, 1997.
Cambridge, MA
Paper: Reading the Constitution in Cyberspace.
Columbia Law School
February, 1997.
New York, NY
Paper: Fidelity and Constraint.
Quinnipiac School of Law
February, 1997.
Hamden, CT
Paper: Law, Norms, Code.
Hartman Institute
December, 1996.
Jerusalem, Israel
Paper: Change in Constitutional Interpretation.
Cordell Hull Speaker’s Forum, Cumberland School of
Law
November, 1996.
Birmingham, AL
Paper: Constitution and Code.
American Society of Comparative Law
September, 1996.
Detroit, MI.
Fidelity in Constitutional Theory, Fordham Law School
September, 1996.
New York, NY
Paper: Fidelity as Translation.
Lawrence Lessig
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March 5, 2003
Legal Theory Workshop, U. of Colorado at Boulder
September, 1996.
Boulder, CO
Paper: The Erie-Effect.
Law and Cyberspace, ACLU Panel
May, 1996.
Chicago, IL
Panel discussion.
Digital Library Initiative, University of Michigan
May, 1996.
Ann Arbor, MI
Paper: Intellectual Property in Cyberspace.
NCAIR Virtual Magistrate Project
May, 1996.
Washington, DC
Paper: Grounding the Virtual Magistrate (co-
authored).
Virtue and Virtuality: Gender, Law and Cyberspace
April, 1996.
MIT Program in Women’s Studies
Cambridge, MA
Paper: Zoning Porn and People in Cyberspace.
Cyberspace and the Law, Symposium
April, 1996.
St. John’s Journal of Legal Commentary
Jamaica, NY
Paper: Intellectual Property in Cyberspace.
Legal Studies Workshop, University of Virginia
April, 1996.
Charlottesville, VA
Presented Paper: The Erie-effect.
Colloquium on Constitutional Theory, NYU Law School
April, 1996.
New York, NY
Presented Paper: The Erie-effect.
Kellogg Foundation, Workshop on Technology
March, 1996.
Santa Fe, NM
Participant.
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March 5, 2003
Thrower Symposium, Emory Law School
February, 1996.
Atlanta, GA
Paper: Reading the Constitution in Cyberspace.
Law and Borders, Stanford Law School
February, 1996.
Stanford, CA
Comment: Borders in Cyberspace.
Law, Economics, and Norms
February, 1996.
Philadelphia, PA
Comment: The regulation of social norms.
Constitutional Courts in Eastern Europe
February, 1996.
Chicago, IL.
Workshop on Media, Technology and the Law
December, 1996.
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Discussing emerging media technology.
International Association of Constitutional Law
September, 1995.
Tokyo, Japan.
Discussing comparative constitutional law.
Society of Professional Journalism
March, 1995.
Stamford, CT
Discussing Cyberspace and Libel.
Harvard Law School
February, 1995.
Law and Economics Workshop
Paper: Judicial Reputation.
Cyberspace and the First Amendment
December, 1995.
Yale Law School, New Haven, CT
Paper: The Path of Cyberlaw.
Address to the Class of 1997
October, 1994.
Chicago, IL.
Lawrence Lessig
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March 5, 2003
Constitutional Courts in Transition
September, 1994.
Warsaw, Poland.
International Congress of Comparative Law
September, 1994.
Athens, Greece.
Workshop on Constitutionalism in Post-Communist
Russia
June, 1994.
Novosibirsk, Russia.
Rights in Post-Communist Europe
June, 1994.
Central European University, Budapest, Hungary.
AALS Annual Meeting
January, 1994.
Orlando, FL.
Paper: Internet and the Law School, Computer Law
Section.
Paper: Outsiders’ Perspectives on Contracts,
Contract Law Section.
Media Rights, and Restitution in Eastern Europe
June, 1993.
Central European University, Budapest, Hungary.
Conference on Richard Epstein’s Forbidden Ground
May, 1993.
University of California at San Diego, San Diego,
CA.
Rights and Responsibilities in Electronic Community
February, 1993.
National Research Council, Washington, DC.
Workshops on the Republic of Georgia’s Constitution.
March, 1993; June, 1994.
Tblisi, Georgia.
AALS Annual Meeting
January, 1993.
San Francisco, CA.
Paper: The President and the Administration,
Administrative Law.
Lawrence Lessig
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March 5, 2003
Interpretation and the Unitary Executive
December, 1992.
Cardozo Law School, New York, NY.
Paper: Readings by Our Unitary Executive.
Constitutional Drafting Workshop, Georgia and Belarus
December, 1992.
Central European University, Budapest, Hungary.
Paper: Constitutional Amending Processes.
Law and Economics at Chicago
May, 1992.
University of Chicago, Chicago, IL.
Paper: Counting with Landes and Posner.
HONORS AND AWARDS
2003 Free Software Foundation Award for the
Advancement of Free Software
2002 Scientific American, Top 50 Innovators
2002 Editors’ Choice, Best Non-Technical Book, Linux
Journal
2001 World Technology Award for Law
2001 BusinessWeek “25 Top eBiz Leaders”
2000 National Law Journal’s “100 Most Influential
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2000 BusinessWeek “25 Top eBiz Leaders”
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