Lawrence (Larry) Lessig, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Creative Commons,
is a Professor of Law at Stanford Law School and founder of the School's Centre for
Internet and Society. Prior to joining Stanford he taught at Harvard Law School
and the University of Chicago Law School. In 2002, he was named one of 50 top
innovators by Scientific American. Lessig acquired a B.A. in economics and a B.S.
in management from the University of Pennsylvania, an M.A. in philosophy from Cambridge,
and a J.D. from Yale. Although considered a liberal, he clerked for strongly-conservative
Judge Richard Posner and Justice Antonin Scalia. A well-known critic of extended
copyright terms, Lessig has been engaged in several notable cases.
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