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[p]Lawrence Lessig is a Professor of Law at Stanford Law School and founder of the school's Center for Internet and Society. He is one of the country's leading commentators on legal aspects of new communications technologies and cyberspace. He is Professor of Law and founder and executive director of the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School. Professor Lessig teaches and writes in the areas of constitutional law, law and high technology, Internet regulation, comparative constitutional law, and the law of cyberspace. Prior to joining the Stanford faculty, he was the Berkman Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, a professor at the University of Chicago Law School, and a fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin. Professor Lessig is chairman of the board of Creative Commons and a member of the board of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. [/p][p]Professor Lessig earned his J.D. from Yale Law School in 1989, and his M.A. in philosophy, honors first class, from Trinity College in 1986. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1983 after earning his B.A. in Economics and his B.S. in Management (Wharton) .[/p][p]He is the author of many influential publications about cyberlaw and cyberspace, including two books: "The Future of Ideas: The Fate of the Commons in a Connected World" (2001) and "Code, and Other Laws of Cyberspace (1999)".[/p]

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