Work addresses the failure of democracy, and innovations to reform democracy. Lessig’s early work focused on law and technology, especially as it affects copyright. He has received numerous awards including a Webby, the Free Software Foundation’s Freedom Award, Scientific American 50 Award, and Fastcase 50 Award.
He serves on the Scientific Board of AXA Research Fund, is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society.
Lessig is the founder of Equal Citizens and a founding board member of Creative Commons. He holds an honorary degree from the University of Victoria, Victoria, Canada, UCLouvain, Belgium, Lund University, Sweden, Athabasca University, Athabasca, Canada, Amsterdam University, Amsterdam. He clerked for Judge Richard Posner on the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals and Justice Antonin Scalia on the United States Supreme Court. Prior to returning to Harvard, he taught at Stanford Law School, where he founded the Center for Internet and Society, and at the University of Chicago. Furman Professor of Law and Leadership at Harvard Law School. In this realm, code is the most significant form of law, and it is up to lawyers, policymakers, and especially citizens to decide what values that code embodies.Lawrence Lessig is the Roy L. These choices are all about architecture: about what kind of code will govern cyberspace, and who will control it. We can-we must-choose what kind of cyberspace we want and what freedoms we will guarantee. Under the influence of commerce, cyberpsace is becoming a highly regulable space, where our behavior is much more tightly controlled than in real space.But that's not inevitable either. That code can create a place of freedom-as the original architecture of the Net did-or a place of exquisitely oppressive control.If we miss this point, then we will miss how cyberspace is changing. It is not in the nature of cyberspace to be unregulable cyberspace has no "nature." It only has code-the software and hardware that make cyberspace what it is. There's a common belief that cyberspace cannot be regulated-that it is, in its very essence, immune from the government's (or anyone else's) control.
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