2008 Institute Lecture
The Sara Fine Institute is proud to announce that Lawrence Lessig, Professor of Law at Stanford, will present the 2008 Sara Fine Institute Lecture.
When: September 25, 2008 at 3:00pm
Where: Teplitz Memorial Moot Courtroom in the Barco Law Building of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. It's on the ground floor of the building.
How Creativity is being strangled by the law
Professor Lessig is the founder of the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford and Chair of the Creative Commons project. He has served on the faculties at Harvard Law and the University of Chicago. His presentation as part of the Sara Fine Institute Annual Lecture will address his work in legal aspects of cyberspace and constitutional law. More details will be provided shortly.
Lawrence Lessig is a Professor of Law at Stanford Law School and founder of the school's Center for Internet and Society. 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 United States Supreme Court.
Professor Lessig represented web site operator Eric Eldred in the ground-breaking case Eldred v. Ashcroft, a challenge to the 1998 Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act. He has won numerous awards, including the Free Software Foundation's Freedom Award, and was named one of Scientific American's Top 50 Visionaries, for arguing "against interpretations of copyright that could stifle innovation and discourse online."
Professor Lessig is the author of Free Culture (2004), The Future of Ideas (2001) and Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace (1999). He chairs the Creative Commons project, and serves on the board of the Free Software Foundation, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Public Library of Science, and Public Knowledge. He is also a columnist for Wired.
Professor Lessig earned a BA in economics and a BS in management from the University of Pennsylvania, an MA in philosophy from Cambridge, and a JD from Yale.
Professor Lessig teaches and writes in the areas of constitutional law, contracts, and the law of cyberspace.
