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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
Stanford Law School; Stanford University
Professor of Law, 2000.
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 term, 1997.
The Industry Standard
Monthly Columnist, 1998-2001.
RedHat Center for Open Source
Board Member
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.
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Courses taught or currently teaching:
Constitutional Law I (federalism,
separation of powers, judicial
review); Constitutional Law II (free
speech); Contracts; The Law of
Cyberspace (Seminar); The Public Good
(Seminar); Comparative 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. 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. Summer, 1992,
1993, 1995 (Budapest); 1994 (Moscow).
Justice Antonin Scalia; United States
Supreme Court.
Law Clerk; 1990-1991.
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Judge Richard Posner; U.S. Court of
Appeals, Seventh Circuit.
Law Clerk; 1989-1990.
PUBLICATIONS AND WORK IN PROGRESS
Books
Code, and Other Laws of Cyberspace
Basic Books, 1999
The Future of Ideas: The Fate of the
Commons in a Connected World
Random House, 2001
800-Word Culture
Work in Progress
The Fidelity in Translation
Work in Progress
Articles
Lawrence Lessig, Who’s Holding Back
Broadband?,
Washington Post, January 8, 2002, p. A17.
Lawrence Lessig, May the Source Be With
You, Wired,
December 2001, p. 78.
Lawrence Lessig, The Internet’s Undoing,
Financial Times,
November 29, 2001, p. 23.
Lawrence Lessig, It’s Still a Safe World
for Microsoft, New
York Times, November 9, 2001
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Lawrence Lessig, The Internet Under Siege,
Foreign Policy,
Thursday, November 1, 2001.
Lawrence Lessig, Jail Time in the Digital
Age, New
York Times, July 30, 2001. p.A17
Lawrence Lessig, Jail Time, Digital Style,
Moscow
Times, July 31, 2001. p.12
Lawrence Lessig, Privacy and Attention
Span, 89
Georgetown Law Journal 2063-2072 (2001)
Lawrence Lessig, Antitrust and Verify: Will
Microsoft
Admit It Has Lost?, The New Republic, July
23, 2001,p.14
Lawrence Lessig, Copyright's First
Amendment, 48
UCLA Law Review 1057-1074 (2001)
Lawrence Lessig, Architecting Innovation,
49 Drake
Law Review 397-405 (2001)
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Lawrence Lessig, David G. Post, and Jeffrey
Rosen,
A Roundtable Discussion with Lawrence
Lessig,
David G. Post, and Jeffrey Rosen; Moderated
and
Edited by Thomas E. Baker, 49 Drake Law
Review 441-455 (2001)
Foreword: Conference on Internet Privacy
Stanford Law Review (forthcoming
2000)
The Death of Cyberspace
Washington & Lee Law Review
(forthcoming 2000)
Innovation, Regulation and the Internet
11 American Prospect (March 27, 2000)
The Censorships of Television
work in progress
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)
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Commons and Code
9 Fordham Intellectual Property,
Media and Entertainment Law Journal
459 (1999)
Federalism’s Text
66 George Washington Law Review 1218
(1998)
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
(forthcoming 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).
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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).
Post-Constitutionalism (Book Review)
94 Michigan Law Review 1422 (1996).
Grounding the Virtual Magistrate
(co-author Jack Goldsmith)
http://www.law.vill.edu/ncair/disres/g
roundvm.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 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.
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The President and the Administration
With Cass Sunstein, 94 Columbia Law
Review 1 (1994).
Readings by Our Unitary Executive
15 Cardozo Law Review 175 (1993).
Fidelity in Translation
71 Texas Law Review 1165 (1993).
Plastics: Unger and Ackerman on
Transformation
98 Yale Law Review 1173 (1989).
Essays
End Game
The New Republic (June 19, 2000)
Cracking the Microsoft Case
Boston Globe (June 5, 2000)
with Larry Kramer
Technology Will Solve Web Privacy Problems
Wall Street Journal (May 31, 2000)
Online Patents: Keep Them Pending
Wall Street Journal (March 23, 2000)
Code is Law: On Liberty in Cyberspace
Harvard Magazine, January-February
2000
The Prolific Iconoclast: Richard Posner
American Lawyer 109 (December 1999)
Tyranny in the Infrastructure
Wired Magazine, 5.07, July, 1997.
Making Sense of the Hague Tribunal
Eastern European Constitutional
Review, Fall, 1996.
A Good Plan for a Bad Idea
op-ed, Wall Street Journal, 12/6/96.
An End Run to a Balanced Budget
op-ed, L.A. Times, 1/17/95.
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An Introduction to the New Russian
Constitutional Court
Eastern European Constitutional
Review, Winter, 1995.
The Path of the Presidency
3 East European Constitutional Review
104 (1994).
The Supreme Court and Our Future
38 University of Chicago Law School
Record 13 (1992).
ADDRESSES, CONFERENCES, SEMINARS AND WORKSHOPS
Syllabus 2002 Summer Conference
July, 2002
Santa Clara, CA
Lecture: To Promote the Progress of
Science: Law’s
Regulation of the Creative Process
O’Reilly Open Source Convention
July, 2002
San Diego, CA
Lecture: Freeing Culture
Designing for Resiliency, TTI/Vanguard
Conference
July, 2002
Brussels, Belgium
Information Ownership and Control,
Rüschlikon Conference
July, 2002
Rüschlikon, Switzerland
Harvard Law School Berkman Center iLaw
Program
July, 2002
Cambridge, Massachussetts
Lecture: Law, Code, Market, and
Social Norms
Lecture: Recent Litigation: Reimerdes
and Eldred
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Debate: The Merits of Open Source,
Shared Source and
Proprietary Systems
Panel: Access to the Internet
The Economics of Open Source Software,
L'Institut d'Economie Industrielle
(IDEI)
June, 2002
Toulouse, France
Lecture
INET 2002, The Internet Society
June, 2002
Washington, DC
Panel: Ideas and Intellectual
Property in the Networked
World
Panel: Open Source Software
American Library Association Annual
Conference
June, 2002
Atlanta, GA
Lecture: The Creative Commons
USENIX Annual Technical Conference
June, 2002
Monterey, CA
Lecture: The Internet’s Coming Silent
Spring
Master of Law and Technology Program,
Stockholm University
June, 2002
Stockholm, Sweden
The Fate of Law and Ethics in Information
Society, National Program for
Information Technology and Law
June, 2002
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Lecture: Code as Law in Cyberspace
TERENA Networking Conference
June, 2002
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Shannon, Ireland
Lecture: Free Culture
Mechanics’ Institute Library
May, 2002
San Francisco, CA
Lecture: The Future of Ideas
Business Internet Group
May, 2002
San Francisco, CA
Panel: BIG Brains: Technology
Forecasts for 2002 and Beyond
World Economic Forum
May, 2002
Washington, DC
Panel: Intellectual Property: New
Ethics for a Common
Good?
O’Reilly Emerging Technology Conference
May, 2002
Santa Clara, CA
Lecture: Creating the Commons
Digital Law 2002 Conference
May, 2002
São Paulo, Brazil (via
videoconference)
Dunwody Distinguished Lecture, University
of Florida Levin College of Law
April, 2002
Gainesville, FL
Lecture: The Creative Commons
Digital Landscapes, SLATA Conference
April, 2002
Stanford, CA
Panel: The Future of Digital Rights
Management
Boston University School of Law
April, 2002
Boston, MA
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Lecture: Free Code, Free Speech, Free
Culture
American Copyright Society
April, 2002
Washington, DC
Philip A. Hart Memorial Lecture, Georgetown
University Law Center
April, 2002
Washington, DC
Hochelaga Lecture Series, University of
Hong Kong
March, 2002
Hong Kong
Lecture: Americanizing the Net: How
Innovation and Creativity Will Be
Lost
Workshop in Law, Philosophy and Political
Theory, University of California,
Boalt Hall
March, 2002
Berkeley, CA
Judge William H. Orrick, Jr. Visiting
Lecture
South by Southwest Interactive Festival
March, 2002
Austin, TX
Lecture: The Creative Commons
From Text to Performance: Law and Other
Performing Arts, University of
Texas School of Law
March, 2002
Austin, TX
Lecture
Panel: Why Copyright?
World Congress on Information Technology
March, 2002
Adelaide, Australia
Lecture: The Internet’s Coming Silent
Spring
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The Thomas McCarthy Institute, University
of San Francisco School of Law
February, 2002
San Francisco, CA
Distinguished Speaker Lecture:
Freeing the Air
The Center for Law, Science and Technology,
Arizona State University College
of Law
February, 2002
Tempe, AZ
Hogan & Hartson Jurimetrics Lecture:
Architecting the Innovation Commons
Tenzer Distinguished Lecture in
Intellectual Property,
Cardozo University
February, 2002
New York, NY
Lecture: Innovating Copyright
Political and Legal Issues of Cyberspace in
Times of Crisis, Political Science
Institute in Paris
February, 2002
Paris, France
Lecture
Regulation of Information Platforms
Symposium, Silicon Flatirons
Telecommunications Program,
University of Colorado School of
Law
January, 2002
Boulder, CO
Opening Lecture
University of Toronto
January, 2002
Toronto, Canada
Seminar: The Law of Cyberspace
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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
Darklight Digital Film Festival
November, 2001
Dublin, Ireland
Lecture
Duke University Public Domain Conference
November, 2001
Durham, NC
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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
St. Louis, MO
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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
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Stanford Faculty Workshop Presentation
May, 2001
Stanford, CA
Lecture: Copyright’s First Amendment
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
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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?
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
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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
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
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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
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
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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
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
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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
Ann Arbor, MI
Lecture: The Environment of
Innovation
Drexel University Conference
July, 2000
Philadelphia, PA
Lecture: Freedom and the Internet
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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
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Lecture: The Constitution of
Cyberspace
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
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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
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
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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
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
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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
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?
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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
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
Lawrence Lessig
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May 29, 2003
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
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
Lawrence Lessig
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May 29, 2003
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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May 29, 2003
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
Lawrence Lessig
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May 29, 2003
Supreme Court Judgments (with Tim
Wu).
State Bar of Arizona, CLE
November, 1997
Tempe, AZ
Paper: The Laws of Cyberspace
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
Lawrence Lessig
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May 29, 2003
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
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.
Lawrence Lessig
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May 29, 2003
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.
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).
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May 29, 2003
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.
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
Lawrence Lessig
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May 29, 2003
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
Constitutional Courts in Transition
September, 1994
Warsaw, Poland
International Congress of Comparative Law
September, 1994
Athens, Greece
Lawrence Lessig
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May 29, 2003
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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May 29, 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
2001 World Technology Award for Law
2001 BusinessWeek “25 Top eBiz Leaders”
2000 National Law Journal’s “100 Most
Influential Lawyers”
2000 BusinessWeek “25 Top eBiz Leaders”
