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Discipline name D-index D-index (Discipline H-index) only includes papers and citation values for an examined discipline in contrast to General H-index which accounts for publications across all disciplines. Citations Publications World Ranking National Ranking
Law D-index 25 Citations 21,426 81 World Ranking 231 National Ranking 182

Research.com Recognitions

Awards & Achievements

2007 - Ithiel de Sola Pool Award, American Political Science Association (APSA)

2006 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Overview

What is he best known for?

The fields of study he is best known for:

  • Law
  • Politics
  • Democracy

His main research concerns Law, Information and communication technologies for development, Public relations, Creativity and Democracy. Lawrence Lessig mostly deals with Politics in his studies of Law. His work is dedicated to discovering how Information and communication technologies for development, Property are connected with Cyberspace and other disciplines.

His Public relations research is multidisciplinary, incorporating elements of Media studies, Commons, Cable television and Demise. His research in Creativity focuses on subjects like Law and economics, which are connected to Intellectual property. His studies in Democracy integrate themes in fields like Convention, Information Age, Institution and Supreme court.

His most cited work include:

  • Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace (1910 citations)
  • Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity (951 citations)
  • The Future of Ideas: The Fate of the Commons in a Connected World (916 citations)

What are the main themes of his work throughout his whole career to date?

His primary scientific interests are in Law, Cyberspace, Law and economics, Corruption and Media studies. His work on Law deals in particular with Democracy and Economic Justice. His Cyberspace research incorporates themes from Code, Computer security, Intellectual property, Legal aspects of computing and Constitution.

His work carried out in the field of Law and economics brings together such families of science as Free speech, Argument, Government, Control and Power. His Corruption study combines topics in areas such as Political economy, Temptation and Supreme court. His Media studies study frequently draws connections between adjacent fields such as Public relations.

He most often published in these fields:

  • Law (28.09%)
  • Cyberspace (15.73%)
  • Law and economics (13.48%)

What were the highlights of his more recent work (between 2011-2019)?

  • Corruption (11.24%)
  • Law (28.09%)
  • Law and economics (13.48%)

In recent papers he was focusing on the following fields of study:

The scientist’s investigation covers issues in Corruption, Law, Law and economics, Supreme court and Politics. His Corruption research is multidisciplinary, relying on both Political economy and Temptation. Law is a component of his Democracy, Jurisprudence, Originalism and First amendment studies.

His Democracy research focuses on subjects like Political corruption, which are linked to Government. His studies examine the connections between Supreme court and genetics, as well as such issues in Link, with regards to Internet privacy, Web archiving and Resource. His Politics study incorporates themes from Argument, Wright and Economic history.

Between 2011 and 2019, his most popular works were:

  • Foreword: "Institutional corruption" defined. (68 citations)
  • Perma: Scoping and Addressing the Problem of Link and Reference Rot in Legal Citations (33 citations)
  • What an Originalist Would Understand "Corruption" to Mean (15 citations)

In his most recent research, the most cited papers focused on:

  • Law
  • Politics
  • Social science

Lawrence Lessig mostly deals with Corruption, Law and economics, Supreme court, Political economy and Social science. His Doctrine research extends to Corruption, which is thematically connected. Lawrence Lessig has researched Law and economics in several fields, including Counterfactual thinking, Nothing, Argument, Politics and Skepticism.

His research integrates issues of Link, Link rot and Scholarship in his study of Supreme court.

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