Lawrence Lessig, Harvard Hukuk Okulu'nda Roy L. Furman Hukuk ve Liderlik Profesörüdür. Harvard'a dönmeden önce İnternet ve Toplum Merkezi'ni kurduğu Stanford Hukuk Okulu'nda ve Chicago Üniversitesi'nde ders verdi. Temyiz Mahkemesi'nde Yargıç Richard Posner'ın ve Amerika Birleşik Devletleri Yüksek Mahkemesi'nde Yargıç Antonin Scalia'nın katipliğini yaptı.
Lessig, Equal Citizens'ın kurucusu ve Creative Commons'ın kurucu yönetim kurulu üyesidir ve AXA Araştırma Fonu Bilim Kurulu'nda görev yapmaktadır. American Academy of Arts and Sciences ve American Philosophical Society üyesi olarak, aralarında Webby, Free Software Foundation'ın Özgürlük Ödülü, Scientific American 50 Ödülü ve Fastcase 50 Ödülünün de bulunduğu çok sayıda ödül aldı.
The New Yorker tarafından “İnternet çağında fikri mülkiyet konusunda en önemli düşünür” olarak anılan Lessig, odağını hukuk ve teknolojiden “kurumsal yolsuzluğa” - yasal olmakla birlikte kamunun bir kuruma olan güvenini zayıflatan ilişkilere - özellikle de odaklandı. çünkü bu demokrasiyi etkiler.
Lessig, Pennsylvania Üniversitesi'nden ekonomi alanında lisans ve yönetim alanında lisans, Cambridge Üniversitesi'nden felsefe alanında yüksek lisans ve Yale'den JD derecesine sahiptir.
One Way Forward: The Outsider's Guide to Fixing the Republic kitap pdf oku ve indir 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.