a public talk by Lawrence Lessig
Pleasants Family Room in Wilson Library
Lawrence Lessig taught the Supreme Court about the Internet. He was the Special Master to Judge Penfield Jackson in the Microsoft Monopoly trial. Lessig is a major thinker on Internet Policy. Unlike many, he advocates a strong place for goverment in Internet Governance.
Lawrence Lessig is the Berkman Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. From 1991 to 1997, he was a professor at the University of Chicago Law School. He graduated from Yale Law School in 1989, and then clerked for Judge Richard Posner of the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals, and Justice Antonin Scalia on the Supreme Court. Lessig teaches and writes in the areas of constitutional law, contracts, comparative constitutional law, and the law of cyberspace. He is presently completing a book, "Code, and other Laws of Cyberspace."
Lessig discussed copyright and intellectual property in a recent Atlantic Monthly Forum. Writing in conversation with John Perry Barlow and others, Lessig came to some interesting conclusions.
Contacts:
Paul Jones 962-7600 or pjones@sunsite.unc.edu
Marcus Breen 962-2311 or mbreen@email.unc.edu
Campus sponsors:
Carolina Seminar on Internet and Society
Journalism and Mass Communication's Hearst Speakers
School of Information and Library Science
Department of Communications Studies