Lawrence Lessig es profesor Roy L. Furman de Derecho y Liderazgo en la Facultad de Derecho de Harvard. Antes de regresar a Harvard, enseñó en la Facultad de Derecho de Stanford, donde fundó el Centro para Internet y la Sociedad, y en la Universidad de Chicago. Fue secretario del juez Richard Posner en la Corte de Apelaciones del Séptimo Circuito y del juez Antonin Scalia en la Corte Suprema de los Estados Unidos.
Lessig es la fundadora de Equal Citizens y miembro fundador de la junta directiva de Creative Commons, y es miembro de la Junta científica de AXA Research Fund. Miembro de la Academia Estadounidense de las Artes y las Ciencias y de la Sociedad Filosófica Estadounidense, ha recibido numerosos premios, incluidos Webby, el Premio a la Libertad de la Fundación de Software Libre, el Premio Scientific American 50 y el Premio Fastcase 50.
Una vez citado por The New Yorker como “el pensador más importante sobre la propiedad intelectual en la era de Internet”, Lessig ha cambiado su enfoque de la ley y la tecnología a la “corrupción institucional”, relaciones que, si bien son legales, debilitan la confianza pública en una institución, especialmente ya que eso afecta la democracia.
Lessig tiene una licenciatura en economía y una licenciatura en administración de la Universidad de Pensilvania, una maestría en filosofía de la Universidad de Cambridge y un doctorado en leyes de Yale.
One Way Forward: The Outsider's Guide to Fixing the Republic pdf por Lawrence Lessig
Something is clearly rotten in our Republic. Americans have lost faith in their politicians to a greater degree than ever, resigning themselves to the best Congress money can buy, as the comic Will Rogers once put it. It doesnt matter whether they are Democrats or Republicans, people are disillusioned and angry as hell. They feel like outsiders in their own nation, powerless over their own lives, blocked from having a real voice in how they are governed.
But all of this can changewe have the power. Lawrence Lessig, the renowned Harvard Law School professor, political activist, and author of the bestselling Republic, Lost, presents a clear-eyed, bipartisan manifesto for revolution just when we need it the most. One Way Forward is a rousing, eloquent, and ultimately optimistic call to action for Americans of all political persuasions. Notable in these viciously partisan times, Lessig pitches his address equally to Occupy Wall Streeters, Tea Party Patriots, independents, anarchists, and baffled citizens of the American middle. Despite our serious political differences, he argues, we canand mustchange the system for the better.
At the core of our government, Lessig says, is a legal corruption. In other words: money. The job of politics has been left to a tiny slice of Americans who dominate campaign finance and exert a disproportionate influence on lawgivers as a result. This, he writes, is a dynamic that would be obvious to Tony Soprano or Michael Corleone but that is sometimes obscure to political scientists: a protection racket that flourishes while our Republic burns.
We dont need to destroy wealth, Lessig declares. We need to destroy the ability of wealth to corrupt our politics.
With the common-sense idealism of his hero, Henry David Thoreau, Lessig shows how Americans can take back their country, and he provides a concrete and surprisingly practical set of instructions for doing it.
In a season where Americans are poised between the hope for real change and the fear that, once again, they wont get it, One Way Forward charts a course to a thrillingly new American future in which every citizen has a voice that matters, no matter how fat his or her wallet.