About Lawrence Lessig
Lester Lawrence "Larry" Lessig III is an American legal scholar 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. He is the founder of Creative Commons and Equal Citizens. 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.
Notable works:
Free culture: The Nature and Future of Creativity
Awards:
FSF Award for the Advancement of Free Software|Berlin Prize|Webby Lifetime Achievement Award|honorary doctorate of Lund University|Scientific American 50
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