The Failed Branch: Congress and the Hope for Reform

Professor Lawrence Lessig will visit Northeastern University School of Law on Wednesday, May 4, 2016, to speak on "The Failed Branch: Congress and the Hope for Reform." Co-sponsored by Northeastern University School of Law and Reforming Institutional and Systemic Corruption (RISC)

Event Details
Wednesday, May 4, 2016
12:00 to 1:30 PM
Northeastern University School of Law
240 Dockser Hall, 65 Forsyth Street, Boston, MA 02115

neu.edu/law/lessig

Lawrence Lessig is the Roy L. Furman Professor of Law and Leadership at Harvard Law School. In 2015, he entered the race for president of the United States to champion campaign finance reform and electoral reform. Though he ultimately decided to withdraw his candidacy, his thoughts on these issues are at the heart of two of his books: Republic Lost: How Money Corrupts Congress — and a Plan to Stop It and the update to that book, Republic Lost: Version 2.0. A co-founder of Creative Commons, Lessig is also a proponent of granting greater latitude to those seeking to promote dialogue via the radio frequency spectrum or through use of copyrighted and trademarked material.

Previously a faculty member at Stanford Law School, where he founded the school’s Center for Internet and Society, Lessig clerked for Judge Richard Posner on the US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and Justice Antonin Scalia on the United States Supreme Court. He has received numerous awards, including the Free Software Foundation’s Advancement of Free Software award, Fastcase 50 award, “honoring the law’s smartest, most courageous innovators, techies, visionaries and leaders,” and the 2014 Webby Lifetime Achievement award for co-founding Creative Commons and defending net neutrality and the free and open software movement.

Lessig holds a BA in economics and a BS in management from the University of Pennsylvania, an MA in philosophy from the University of Cambridge and a JD from Yale Law School.

This event is free and open to the public. Registration is required.

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