Lawrence Lessig, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Lawrence Lessig

American academic, political activist

Date of Birth: 03-Jun-1961

Place of Birth: Rapid City, South Dakota, United States

Profession: lawyer, computer scientist, politician, professor, jurist, political activist, non-fiction writer

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

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About Lawrence Lessig

  • Lester Lawrence 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.As a political activist, Lessig has called for state-based activism to promote substantive reform of government with a Second Constitutional Convention.
  • In May 2014, he launched a crowd-funded political action committee which he termed Mayday PAC with the purpose of electing candidates to Congress who would pass campaign finance reform.
  • Lessig is also the co-founder of Rootstrikers, and is on the boards of MapLight and Represent.Us.
  • He serves on the advisory boards of the Democracy Café and the Sunlight Foundation.In August 2015, Lessig announced that he was exploring a possible candidacy for President of the United States, promising to run if his exploratory committee raised $1 million by Labor Day.
  • After accomplishing this, on September 6, 2015, Lessig announced that he was entering the race to become a candidate for the 2016 Democratic Party's presidential nomination.
  • Lessig has described his candidacy as a referendum on campaign finance reform and electoral reform legislation.
  • He stated that, if elected, he would serve a full term as president with his proposed reforms as his legislative priorities.
  • He ended his campaign in November 2015, citing rule changes from the Democratic Party that precluded him from appearing in the televised debates.

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