 The Sara Fine Institute (SFI) is pleased to announce that Lawrence Lessig, Professor of Law at Stanford University, will present the 2008 SFI Annual Lecture. The lecture will be held on Thursday, September 25, 2008, at 3 pm in the Teplitz Memorial Moot Courtroom, the Barco Law Building at the University of Pittsburgh’s School of Law. Professor Lessig is the founder of the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford and is on the Board of the Creative Commons project. He is a leading figure, both internationally and in the United States, in a field that lies at the intersection of constitutional law and intellectual property law. Professor Lessig will present “A Declaration for Independence,” addressing the growing threat to some of the most important institutions in our culture and political life from an improper dependence on money. Lessig will describe this threat to institutions from the academy, to Congress, and the developing movement to check it.
Lessig is the C. Wendell and Edith M. Carlsmith Professor of Law at Stanford University. He teaches and writes in the areas of constitutional law, contracts, and the law of cyberspace. Prior to joining the Stanford faculty, he was the Berkman Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, and a Professor at the University of Chicago. He clerked for Judge Richard Posner on the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals and Justice Antonin Scalia on the United States Supreme Court.
For much of his career, Professor Lessig focused on law and technology, especially as it affects copyright. He represented web site operator Eric Eldred in the ground-breaking case Eldred v. Ashcroft, a challenge to the 1998 Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act. His current academic work addresses a kind of "corruption."
He has won numerous awards, including the Free Software Foundation's Freedom Award, and was named one of Scientific American's Top 50 Visionaries, for arguing "against interpretations of copyright that could stifle innovation and discourse online."
For more information, visit http://www.sarafineinst.pitt.edu/news/lessig.html
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