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213
National Ranking
162

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2007 - Ithiel de Sola Pool Award, American Political Science Association (APSA)
  • 2006 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Overview

Lawrence Lessig is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the intersecting domains of sociology and political science.

The main topics of Lessig's work include:

  • Torture, Ethics, and Law
  • Law, Rights, and Freedoms

Among Lessig's frequent collaborators are:

  • Matthew Seligman
  • Joshua Dávila
  • Primavera De Filippi
  • Ignacio Perrone

Lessig has contributed to various publication venues multiple times. The venues where they have published include:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Yale University Press eBooks
  • Hipertextos

Recent papers by Lessig include:

  • "The First Amendment Does Not Protect Replicants" (2021), published in SSRN Electronic Journal
  • "Privileges or Immunities: A Judicially Restrained and Originalist Understanding" (2022), published in SSRN Electronic Journal
  • "Contents" (2024), published in Yale University Press eBooks
  • "Index" (2024), published in Yale University Press eBooks

Lessig has also published a book titled How to Steal a Presidential Election in 2024 with Yale University Press.

Their work has been recognized through several awards, including:

  • Ithiel de Sola Pool Award from the American Political Science Association in 2007
  • Fellowship of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2006

Best Publications

  • Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace

    Lawrence Lessig

  • The Future of Ideas: The Fate of the Commons in a Connected World

    Lawrence Lessig

  • Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity

    Lawrence Lessig

  • The Regulation of Social Meaning

    Lawrence Lessig

  • The Law of the Horse: What Cyberlaw Might Teach

    Lawrence Lessig

  • The President and the Administration

    Cass R. Sunstein;Lawrence Lessig

  • Republic, Lost: How Money Corrupts Congress--and a Plan to Stop It

    Lawrence Lessig

  • The New Chicago School

    Lawrence Lessig

  • Fidelity in Translation

    Lawrence Lessig

  • Free Culture: The Nature and Future of Creativity

    Lawrence Lessig

  • The Zones of Cyberspace

    Lawrence Lessig

  • Understanding Changed Readings: Fidelity and Theory

    Lawrence Lessig

  • The Future of Ideas

    Lawrence Lessig

  • Judicial Influence: A Citation Analysis of Federal Courts of Appeals Judges

    William M. Landes;Lawrence Lessig;Michael E. Solimine

  • The Path of Cyberlaw

    Lawrence Lessig

  • Translating Federalism: United States v Lopez

    Lawrence Lessig

  • Foreword: "Institutional corruption" defined.

    Lawrence Lessig

  • The End of End-to-End: Preserving the Architecture of the Internet in the Broadband Era

    Mark A. Lemley

  • The Architecture of Innovation

    Lawrence Lessig

  • The Creative Commons

    Lawrence Lessig

  • Social Meaning and Social Norms

    Lawrence Lessig

  • Good Faith Collaboration

    Joseph Michael Reagle;Lawrence Lessig

  • code 2.0

    Lawrence Lessig

Frequent Co-Authors

Paul Resnick
Paul Resnick University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
William M. Landes
William M. Landes University of Chicago
Pamela Samuelson
Pamela Samuelson University of California, Berkeley
Cass R. Sunstein
Cass R. Sunstein Harvard University
Mark A. Lemley
Mark A. Lemley Stanford University

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