Lawrence Lessig Is A Law Professor At Stanford University And Is ...
Lawrence Lessig is a Law Professor at Stanford University and is one of America’s top experts
on constitutional law and cyberspace. Professor Lessig received his B.A. in economics and B.S.
in management from the University of Pennsylvania, his M.A. in philosophy from Trinity College,
Cambridge, and his J.D. from Yale Law School. After law school he clerked for Judge Richard
Posner of the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals and Justice Antonin Scalia on the U.S. Supreme
Court.
Before joining the Stanford law faculty, he was a Professor of Law at the University of Chicago
from 1991 to 1997. From 1997 to 2000, he was at the Harvard Law School, where he was the
Jack N. and Lillian R. Berkman Professor for Entrepreneurial Legal Studies. His "Law of
Cyberspace" class, taught while he was a visiting professor at Yale in 1995, was one of the first
of its kind offered at a law school. Professor Lessig teaches and writes in the areas of
constitutional law, contracts, comparative constitutional law and cyberspace, with a particular
emphasis on such fundamentals as the First Amendment and free speech, and copyright law.
His recently published book, ‘Code, and Other Laws of Cyberspace’, is a thoughtful exploration of
intellectual property rights, free speech, and privacy on the Web. Of his more than thirty articles,
fifteen or so are in the field of Internet regulation, exploring the nexus of regulation and
cyberspace. He has given dozens of lectures on the same topic. A regular columnist for the
Industry Standard, he has also contributed essays to The Wall Street Journal, the Washington
Post, the Los Angeles Times, and The Boston Globe. In 2001, Random House published his
latest book, ‘The Future of Ideas’.
Professor Lessig has consulted extensively with policy makers about the regulation of
cyberspace, testifying before Congress regarding "Anti-paparazzi" legislation and the Child
Online Protection Act. He has also been active in a number of high-profile Internet-related
lawsuits, including Napster, the Microsoft antitrust case, and the merger of AT&T and MediaOne.
At the time he served as Special Master to Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson in the Microsoft
antitrust case, Time magazine called Lawrence Lessig a "leading thinker on how to adapt ancient
principles to the new digital age."
In 1999-2000, Professor Lessig was a fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin. As of April
2001, he serves as Of Counsel for Munger, Tolles and Olson.
