Republic, Lost: How Money Corrupts Congress And a Plan to Stop It pdf

Lawrence Lessig est titulaire de la chaire Roy L. Furman de droit et de leadership à la Harvard Law School. Avant de retourner à Harvard, il a enseigné à la Stanford Law School, où il a fondé le Center for Internet and Society, et à l'Université de Chicago. Il a été greffier du juge Richard Posner à la Cour d'appel du 7e circuit et du juge Antonin Scalia à la Cour suprême des États-Unis. Lessig est le fondateur d'Equal Citizens et membre fondateur du conseil d'administration de Creative Commons, et siège au conseil scientifique d'AXA Research Fund. Membre de l'American Academy of Arts and Sciences et de l'American Philosophical Society, il a reçu de nombreux prix, dont un Webby, le Free Software Foundation's Freedom Award, le Scientific American 50 Award et le Fastcase 50 Award. Autrefois cité par le New Yorker comme « le penseur le plus important en matière de propriété intellectuelle à l'ère d'Internet », Lessig s'est concentré du droit et de la technologie sur la « corruption institutionnelle » - des relations qui, bien que légales, affaiblissent la confiance du public dans une institution - en particulier car cela affecte la démocratie. Lessig est titulaire d'un BA en économie et d'un BS en gestion de l'Université de Pennsylvanie, d'une maîtrise en philosophie de l'Université de Cambridge et d'un JD de Yale.

Republic, Lost: How Money Corrupts Congress And a Plan to Stop It pdf par Lawrence Lessig

In an era when special interests funnel huge amounts of money into our government—driven by shifts in campaign-finance rules and brought to new levels by the Supreme Court in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission—trust in our government has reached an all-time low. More than ever before, Americans believe that money buys results in Congress, and that business interests wield control over our legislature. With heartfelt urgency and a keen desire for righting wrongs, Harvard law professor Lawrence Lessig takes a clear-eyed look at how we arrived at this crisis: how fundamentally good people, with good intentions, have allowed our democracy to be co-opted by outside interests, and how this exploitation has become entrenched in the system. Rejecting simple labels and reductive logic—and instead using examples that resonate as powerfully on the Right as on the Left—Lessig seeks out the root causes of our situation. He plumbs the issues of campaign financing and corporate lobbying, revealing the human faces and follies that have allowed corruption to take such a foothold in our system. He puts the issues in terms that nonwonks can understand, using real-world analogies and real human stories. And ultimately he calls for widespread mobilization and a new Constitutional Convention, presenting achievable solutions for regaining control of our corrupted—but redeemable—representational system. In this way, Lessig plots a roadmap for returning our republic to its intended greatness. While America may be divided, Lessig vividly champions the idea that we can succeed if we accept that corruption is our common enemy and that we must find a way to fight against it. In REPUBLIC, LOST, he not only makes this need palpable and clear—he gives us the practical and intellectual tools to do something about it.