劳伦斯·莱西格是哈佛法学院的 Roy L. Furman 法学与领导力教授。在回到哈佛之前，他在斯坦福大学法学院和芝加哥大学任教，并在那里创立了互联网与社会中心。他为第七巡回上诉法院的理查德·波斯纳法官和美国最高法院的安东宁·斯卡利亚法官担任书记员。
劳伦斯·莱西格 是 Equal Citizens 的创始人和 Creative Commons 的创始董事会成员，并在 AXA 研究基金的科学委员会任职。作为美国艺术与科学学院和美国哲学学会的成员，他获得了许多奖项，包括韦比奖、自由软件基金会的自由奖、科学美国人 50 奖和 Fastcase 50 奖。
曾被《纽约客》誉为“互联网时代最重要的知识产权思想家”，Lessig 已将他的关注点从法律和技术转向“机构腐败”——这种关系虽然合法，但会削弱公众对机构的信任——尤其是因为这会影响民主。
劳伦斯·莱西格 拥有宾夕法尼亚大学经济学学士学位和管理学学士学位、剑桥大学哲学硕士学位和耶鲁大学法学博士学位。
One Way Forward: The Outsider's Guide to Fixing the Republic pdf 劳伦斯·莱西格
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.