Who is Lawrence Lessig?

Lawrence Lessig is a well-known American academic, attorney, and political activist. Lawrence Lessig is currently the Roy L. Furman Professor of Law at Harvard Law School.

Lawrence Lessig- Birth, Parents, Siblings & Education

Lawrence Lessig was born in the United States on June 3, 1961, in Rapid City, South Dakota. He is sixty years old. Every year on June 3rd, Lawrence celebrates his birthday.

He was born in Rapid City, South Dakota, and raised by his parents in Williamsport, Pennsylvania.

Lawrence earned a Bachelor’s degree in economics from Pennsylvania University in 1983. Lawrence later attended Cambridge University, where he earned a master’s degree in philosophy in 1986.

He also studied law at the University of Chicago. Lawrence received his Doctor of Law degree from Yale Law School in 1989.

Lawrence clerked for Judge Richard Posner at the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago, Illinois, for a year after graduating from law school, and for Justice Antonin Scalia at the Supreme Court for another year.

Net Worth of Lawrence Lessig? Salary, Earning

Lawrence Lessig’s net worth is estimated to be $917,871.

Lawrence earns a good living as the Roy L. Furman Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, as well as hosting the podcast Another Way in collaboration with The Young Turks Network. Lawrence earns an annual salary of $90,128.

Relationship, Married Life, Boyfriend/Girlfriend

Lawrence Lessig is married to Bettina Neuefeind, a Harvard University colleague of German origin.

In 1999, the couple married. Willem, a Crypto-Miner, Coffy, a streamer, and Tess are Lawrence and Bettina Neuefeind’s three children.

Body Measurement- Height, Weight, Hair Color

Lawrence Lessig stands taller than average. Lawrence is 5 feet 11 inches tall (Approx. 1.78 m).

Lawrence Lessig- Professional Career

On March 28, 2004, Lessig was elected to the FSF’s board of directors. The concept of “free culture” was proposed by Lawrence. Lawrence also believes in free and open-source software, as well as an open spectrum.

A few minutes of his free culture keynote speech at the O’Reilly Open Source Convention 2002 were about software patents, which he sees as a growing threat to free software, open-source software, and innovation.

Lawrence joined the Digital Universe project’s advisory board in March 2006. Lawrence gave a talk on the ethics of the Free Culture Movement at the 2006 Wikimania conference after a few months.

His December 2006 lecture, On Free and the Differences Between Culture and Code, was one of the highlights of 23C3. Who can you rely on?

He is the author of the 2008 book Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy. Bloomsbury Academic made the remix available for free download and remixing under the Creative Commons CC BY-NC license.

The book is still accessible through the Internet Archive. Remix book details a hypothesis about the societal effect of the Internet, and how this will affect the production as well as consumption of popular culture to a “remix culture”.

In collaboration with The Young Turks Network, he also hosts the podcast Another Way. His podcast Another Way is a weekly podcast that focuses on how we can reform and improve our democracy.

Lawrence was a Berkman Professor of Law at Harvard Law School from 1997 to 2000, where he was affiliated with the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society.

Lawrence later joined Stanford Law School, where he founded the Center for Internet and Society.

In July 2009, he returned to Harvard as a professor and director of the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics.

Lawrence was named the Roy L. Furman Professor of Law and Leadership in 2013, and his chair lecture was titled “Aaron’s Laws: Law and Justice in the Digital Age.”

Lawrence previously worked as a law professor at Stanford Law School, where he founded the Center for Internet and Society, and at the University of Chicago.

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Social Media

His Twitter handle is @lessig.

Quick Facts of Lawrence Lessig

• Lawrence was born on June 3, 1961, in Rapid City, South Dakota, USA.
• He is married to Bettina Neuefeind, a Harvard University colleague of German origin. In 1999, the couple married.
• Willem, a Crypto-Miner, Coffy, a streamer, and Tess are Lawrence and Bettina Neuefeind’s three children.
• He earns an annual salary of $90,128.
• Lawrence was a Berkman Professor of Law at Harvard Law School from 1997 to 2000.