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Lawrence Lessig, a Professor of Law at Stanford Law School and founder of the school’s Center for Internet and Society, is widely known as one of the preeminent scholars on cyberspace and law. He teaches and writes in the areas of constitutional law, contracts, and the law of cyberspace. Lessig is the author of 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), and most recently, Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity (Penguin Press, 2004). In 2003, he represented web site operator Eric Eldred in the landmark case Eldred v. Ashcroft, a challenge to the 1998 Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act. Lessig was also specially appointed in 1997 by Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia as “special master” to the Department of Justice v. Microsoft case, charging him with the role of independently examining witnesses and technical data involved in the case. A vocal advocate for the open source community, Lessig chairs the Creative Commons project, a nonprofit organization that offers flexible copyright for creative works. He is also a board member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the Center for the Public Domain. Lessig has been the recipient of numerous honors for his work, including being named as one of Scientific American’s “Top 50 Innovators” in 2002 and one of BusinessWeek’s “25 Top eBiz Leaders” in 2000 and 2001. Prior to joining the Stanford faculty in 2000, he was the Berkman Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. Lessig was also a fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, and a Professor at the University of Chicago Law School. He served as a law clerk to Justice Antonin Scalia of the U.S. Supreme Court and Judge Richard Posner of the United States Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit.
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