Podcasts about professor lessig

... and he might actually be right! Listen in and hear why. OA1105 - Harvard Law professor and anti-corruption advocate Lawrence Lessig is almost certainly the only person on Earth to have had a personal relationship with both visionary hacker Aaron Swartz and former Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia. We warmly welcome Professor Lessig back to OA to share--among many other things--his experiences with each of these very different people, why he remains optimistic about campaign finance reform going into the second Trump administration, and the originalist argument against Super PACs. “Why They Mattered: Aaron Swartz,” Lawrence Lessig, Politico (12/22/2013) They Don't Represent Us: Reclaiming Our Democracy, Lawrence Lessig (2024) Republic Lost: How Money Corrupts Congress--and a Plan to Stop It, Lawrence Lessig (2011) Support End Super Pacs Check out the OA Linktree for all the places to go and things to do! If you'd like to support the show (and lose the ads!), please pledge at patreon.com/law!

What if the laws that allow billions of dollars of dark money to drive American politics are based on...a mistake? One of America's most prominent legal scholars thinks that's exactly what's happened, and he's going to give someone $50,000 to help him prove it. Lawrence Lessig is the Roy L. Furman Professor of Law and Leadership at Harvard Law School and the founder of Equal Citizens, an advocacy group whose mission is to fix democracy by establishing truly equal citizenship. On Labor Day, September 4, 2023, Equal Citizens will launch a video competition with (at least one) $50,000 prize for whoever can help clearly and concisely explain the legal argument for why SuperPACs can be regulated. To find out more about the contest and enter, go to the contest page: https://equalcitizens.us/crowdfund-video/ And to watch a longer explanation of Professor Lessig's argument, see this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPTY327iRJA&feature=youtu.be

Last week, you heard us play a few clips of John Eastman lying his ass off on Lawrence Lessig's Another Way podcast. Well, now Professor Lessig is here to give us an expert breakdown of some of the election law issues raised by team big lie. Also, how is our election system vulnerable to the next Republican attack in 2024? Links: Friday eastman pleadings, court response, Opening Arguments on Twitter live tweet thread, Ruling, 1/6 brief, Eastman memo, 3 US Code § 15 - Counting electoral votes in Congress, Longer Eastman memo, Eastman reply

Professor Lessig is the Roy L. Furman Professor of Law and Leadership at Harvard Law School and notably a founding board member of Creative Commons. The New Yorker has called him the most important thinker on intellectual property in the Internet era. In this podcast episode, he shares his reflections on the interplay between copyright and Internet's architecture, remix culture, the Creative Commons movement, the rise and benefits of NFTs, the work of Aaron Swartz and the attack on the Internet Archive. Key Takeaways: 0:00 Intro 2:10 Lawrence talks about where his passion for copyright issues and their impacts came from and talks about architecture of the Internet with regards to intellectual properties  4:57 Lawrence also talks about some of the ways in which copyright walls in culture and shares an example  9:08 Lawrence talks about remixes, what they are and how they are impacting people, especially young people who have their whole lives online  12:21 Lawrence talks about the Creative Commons license, what it is and what pushed him to its creation  16:42 Lawrence talks about how the ecosystem is doing now that things are evolving and what could be improved about Creative Commons  21:26 Lawrence talks about the NFTs within Creative Commons, what they are and his view on them 25:17 Lawrence talks about his book called Code, why he revised it to Code v2.0 in 2006, if he is going to revise it again and what he would change  29:13 Lawrence also talks about his other books, Remix and Free Culture and why he decided to move on 33:13 Lawrence explains if he would argue differently the case he did 20 years ago with regards to changing the copyright laws  36:22 Lawrence also shares his journey of running for presidency in the year 2015 and what he was pushing for  40:58 Lawrence also talks about Aaron Swartz and the work that he was doing before committing suicide and if there are other people trying to push on with his work  43:34 Lawrence also talks about where we are today in the state of copyright today, if things have improved  46:57 Lawrence talks about what he would recommend others do to improve the copyright situation and access to knowledge  Books Mentioned:  Code v2.0: https://lessig.org/product/codev2  Remix: https://lessig.org/product/remix  Free Culture: https://lessig.org/product/free-culture  Guerilla Open Access Manifesto: https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/22890903  Shows Mentioned: Equal Citizens: https://equalcitizens.us/  Creative Commons: http://www.creativecommons.org/  AXA Research Fund: https://www.axa-research.org/  Eyes on the prize: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092999/  CBS News: https://www.cbsnews.com/  Wall Street Journal: https://www.wsj.com/  Guests Social Media Links: Website: https://lessig.org/  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lessig/  Twitter: https://twitter.com/lessig  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lessig.org/  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lawlessig/?hl=en  Email: lessig_from_web@pobox.com 

October 8, 2021-- Bob Bushansky speaks with Harvard Law Professor Lawrence Lessig about his book They Don't Represent Us -- Reclaiming Our Democracy. Professor Lessig is a staunch advocate of Democracy and is distressed by Republicans' efforts to destroy it.

Harvard Law Professor and activist Lawrence Lessig joins us to talk about his ongoing efforts to get rid of the Electoral College. It's a war being fought on multiple fronts, but Professor Lessig's current effort is to force states to assign delegates proportionally. The all or nothing system we have now is not actually written into the Constitution. Listen in for the full breakdown! Links: Rodriguez v. Newsom cert petition, Baten v. McMaster, 967 F.3d 345

This episode is with Harvard Law School Professor Lawrence Lessig in which we talk about the Electoral College, the recent faithless electors Supreme Court case that Prof. Lessig argued, and the current polarization in our country. Professor Lessig is the Roy L. Furman Professor of Law and Leadership at Harvard Law School. Prof. Lessig is the founder of EqualCitizens and a founding board member of Creative Commons. Prof. Lessig has focused much of his career on law and technology, especially as it affects copyright and currently addresses “institutional corruption” especially as that affects democracy. He is also the author of his new book “They Don't Represent Us: Reclaiming Our Democracy.” Intergenerational Politics is a video series created by Jill Wine-Banks and Victor Shi dedicated to engaging all generations in politics with weekly unfiltered conversations with experts across the nation. Listen more on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or other podcast streaming services.

LISTEN, SUBSCRIBE, AND RATE Every week, Indivisible Chicago Podcast host Tom Moss talks to politicians, newsmakers, academics and activists about resisting the Trump agenda. The ICP is also a great way to keep up with what’s happening in Indivisible Chicago. Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts or listen online at IndivisibleChicago.com/podcast. Take a minute to rate us on iTunes. It helps us get the word out about the ICP. https://apple.co/2oR4UlH INDIVISIBLE CHICAGO PODCAST SHOW NOTES FOR MONDAY, MAY 25, 2020 _1. I thought the pandemic would finally give Democrats and Republicans something to agree emphatically about — the desire to avoid our own demise. Not so fast. The PEW Research study discussed is here pewrsr.ch/2zZRBZg. _2. Lawrence Lessig is the Roy L. Furman Professor of Law and Leadership at Harvard Law School. He was the co-founder of Creative Commons, and was a candidate for president in 2016. He is the author of numerous books, most recently They Don’t Represent Us published by Dey Street and America: Compromised from the University of Chicago Press. He hosts the podcast Another Way. Professor Lessig joins to talk electoral reform, finance reform, our dire circumstances, and glimmers of hope.

In the two years since Pineal Express has been running, we, its operators, have sought to raise awareness about the major problems facing our species. Such problems include climate change, the risk of technological dystopia, and the latest rise of the authoritarian far-right worldwide. These problems have been worsened by the United States. But the United States also has the potential to ameliorate them, provided that its government is functional enough to do so. For that reason, among others, it is important that the United States government not fall into chronic stagnation, dysfunction, or in the extreme case: collapse or despotism. Presently, there are numerous structural weaknesses which threaten the efficacy and long term health of the United States government. Among these weaknesses is the electoral college, which has contradicted the popular vote in the election of two out of the last three presidents in their first terms. For demographic reasons and electoral vote apportionments over time, that kind of incongruity between the electoral college and popular vote may become more frequent, not less. Another structural weakness is legislative district gerrymandering on the state and federal level, now aided by precise, computer-driven optimization of legislative maps for partisan advantage, thereby making control of some legislative districts effectively voter-proof. Yet another structural weakness is the states’ leeway to enact laws which suppress voter turnout, chiefly among minorities, the poor, and the young. Still another weakness includes the campaign finance system, which allows for a kind of legalized corruption in government, with candidates at every stage of the electoral process disproportionately influenced by, if not outright dependent upon, those entities which bankroll them most. There is also the inherently unrepresentative nature of the US Senate, where right now the 40 million people living in California get two senators, whereas the 40 million people living in the least populated states get a combined total of forty-four senators. The scale of this problem may grow even more severe with demographic change over time. Lastly, there’s the Supreme Court, which is theoretically vulnerable to a cadre of ideologues capitalizing on their lifetime tenure to spend decades setting aside legal precedent in favor of enacting a partisan judicial agenda. One wonders precisely how close we are to that now. These structural weaknesses threaten the functionality and stability of the United States government because they make the government less representative of and less responsive to the general public. Furthermore, they raise the chances that an oligarchic minority can use government to stymie anti-corruption reforms or to consolidate undue power. It is worth mentioning that elected Republicans benefit disproportionately from each of these structural weaknesses, and therefore, they have an incentive to maintain the status quo insofar as they can. Hence there is great challenge in pursuing a reform agenda. Joining us today to talk about the pressing need to solve these fundamental problems of representation in the US government is Harvard Law Professor, Lawrence Lessig. Professor Lessig has argued that the United States has become “ungovernable” and that new, unprecedented efforts to reform the system are necessary. These efforts could include specific reform-minded election strategies, or an Article V Convention to propose constitutional amendments. Professor Lessig details his strategies for fixing our broken government on his podcast, Another Way. We do recommend listening to Another Way in tandem with this episode of Pineal Express. -- Thanks to EllE for this episode’s intro. EllE (electronic music): https://soundcloud.com/evynn3 EllE (rap): https://soundcloud.com/cycleofhands

In this episode, Professor Lawrence Lessig, the Roy L. Furman Professor of Law and Leadership and Harvard Law School discusses his newest book, Fidelity and Constraint: How the Supreme Court Has Read the American Constitution. In his book, Professor Furman discusses the challenges Supreme Court Justices face when interpreting our "ancient' Constitution in modern times. In this discussion, Professor Lessig explains what he means by fidelity to the role of judicial decision making and explains that Supreme Court justices, regardless on either side of the political spectrum share the same constraints. The Court, he suggests, has an obligation to defend its institution and to make sure the institution can survive and develop its authority to do its job. As our discussion makes clear, in Fidelity and Constraint, Professor Lessig mines past judicial decisions to explain present-day judicial rulemaking making for a compelling and understandable read. About our guest…Lawrence Lessig is the Roy L. Furman Professor of Law and Leadership at Harvard Law School.Prior to rejoining the Harvard faculty, Lessig was a professor at Stanford Law School, where he founded the school’s Center for Internet and Society, and at the University of Chicago.He clerked for Judge Richard Posner on the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals and Justice Antonin Scalia on the United States Supreme Court. Lessig serves on the Board of the AXA Research Fund, and on the advisory boards of Creative Commons and the Sunlight Foundation.He is a Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Philosophical Association, and has received numerous awards, including the Free Software Foundation’s Freedom Award, Fastcase 50 Award and being named one of Scientific American’s Top 50 Visionaries.Lessig holds a BA in economics and a BS in management from the University of Pennsylvania, an MA in philosophy from Cambridge, and a JD from Yale. To Learn more about our Professor Lessig visit:http://www.lessig.org/about/You can purchase Fidelity and Constraint by clicking on the link belowhttps://global.oup.com/academic/product/fidelity-and-constraint-9780190945664?cc=us&lang=en&Want to learn more about Professor Lessig? Visit the links below: As always, if you have any suggestions for an episode topic, please let us know! You can email us at leslie@lawtofact.com or tweet to @lawtofact. Don’t forget to follow us on Twitter and Instagram (@lawtofact) and to like us on FaceBook! And finally, your ratings and reviews matter! Please leave us a review on iTunes. Want to stay updated on all things Law to Fact? Join our mailing list by visiting us at www.lawtofact.com.

This week, we are joined by Lawrence Lessig, Harvard Law School professor and former presidential primary candidate in the 2016 election cycle. We are also joined by Brie's baby girl Evelyn, who you will surely hear.First, Prof. Lessig discusses his reasons for attending law school, and speaks to the unique freedoms of being an academic. We then chat about his decision to run for president and why he ultimately chose to withdraw his candidacy. Prof. Lessig gives us his take on ethics in the Trump administration, including pay-for-play and the current FBI investigation of Trump's personal lawyer Michael Cohen.Learn more about Professor Lessig's ongoing legal projects at equalcitizens.us, and follow him on Twitter: @Lessig.Follow the team on social media! @HarvardBLSA @negroesquire @lovexbriana

Professor Lawrence Lessig is joined by Professors Ruth L. Okediji, Laura DeNardis, and Jonathan Zittrain to reflect on the 20th anniversary of Professor Lessig's foundational paper "The Laws of Cyberspace," and how the landscape of Internet law has changed in the two decades since. Learn more about this event: https://cyber.harvard.edu/events/2018/04/Lessig

Lawrence Lessig is a Webby Lifetime Achievement Winner, Professor of Law and Leadership at Harvard Law School, and our first guest for Season Two. As a professor, attorney, and political activist, Lessig has been fighting for the free and open Internet for much of his career. He sits down with host David-Michel Davies to discuss the failed legal battle that inspired Creative Commons, technology's impact on political discourse, his legal campaign Equal to reform the Electoral College, and more.Support the Equal Votes campaign at @EqualCitizensUS and keep up with Professor Lessig at @lessig.Follow us on social @TheWebbyAwardsKeep up with David-Michel @dmdlikesOur Editorial Director is Nicole Ferraro.Our Producer is Sebastian AdeResearch and writing by Jordana Jarrett Michael Charboneau Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Lunds Universitet fyller 350 år i år. Som en del i jubileumsprogrammet arrangerades nyligen en dag om digitalisering och demokrati. En av de inbjudna talarna var Lawrence Lessig som 2013 utsågs till hedersdoktor vid universitetet. Hans föreläsning handlade om hur tekniken påverkar demokrati, och veckans avsnitt av Digitalsamtal tar utgångspunkt i den och den efterföljande […] The post #080 – Om Professor Lessig, digitalisering och demokrati appeared first on Podcasten Digitalsamtal.

In our remote recording location and with returning election-law expert Lori Ringhand, we talk about the election. The electoral college, the moral and legal roles of electors, disputed elections in the House, crises, civil wars. Oh my. (Back in OA World Headquarters for next week’s show.) This show’s links: Lori Ringhand’s faculty profile (http://www.law.uga.edu/profile/lori-ringhand) and writing (http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=332414) The Twelfth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution (http://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/amend1.asp#12) (including a link to some superseding language of the Twentieth Amendment) Alexander Hamilton, Federalist No. 68 (http://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/fed68.asp) Rick Hasen’s link to California’s brief against unbinding California’s Electors (http://electionlawblog.org/?p=89979) Geoffrey Stone, Electors Against Trump Are Faithful Not Faithless (http://time.com/4597387/faithless-electors-donald-trump/) Lawrence Lessig, The Constitution lets the electoral college choose the winner. They should choose Clinton. (https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-constitution-lets-the-electoral-college-choose-the-winner-they-should-choose-clinton/2016/11/24/0f431828-b0f7-11e6-8616-52b15787add0_story.html?utm_term=.a63723e54c11); Orin Kerr, The Electoral College Shouldn’t Choose Clinton: A Response to Lessig (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2016/11/25/the-electoral-college-shouldnt-choose-clinton-a-response-to-lessig/?utm_term=.e20924ee8ab4); Lawrence Lessig, A Response to Professor Kerr (https://medium.com/equal-citizens/a-response-to-professor-kerr-657e3d9147d2#.320laj58w); Orin Kerr, A Reply to Professor Lessig on the Electoral College (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2016/12/01/a-reply-to-professor-lessig-on-the-electoral-college/?utm_term=.3016b02fb393) Rick Hasen, Lessig Urges Faithless Electors Vote for Clinton, Pointing to Popular Vote in a Contest Not Based on Popular Vote (https://electionlawblog.org/?p=89486); Lawrence Lessig, Rick Hasen: “But Not to Ignore It…”: What Is “It”? (https://medium.com/equal-citizens/rick-hasen-but-not-to-ignore-it-what-is-it-59aaf4f0f0a3#.fxivalmbe); Mike Parsons, On “Hamilton Electors” and the Lessig/Hasen Debate (https://moderndemocracyblog.com/2016/12/03/on-hamilton-electors-and-the-lessighasen-debate/) Lawrence Lessig, The Equal Protection Argument Against “Winner Take All” in the Electoral College (http://billmoyers.com/story/equal-protection-argument-winner-take-electoral-college/); Lawrence Lessig, On the Equal Protect Clause Argument and the National Popular Vote Project (https://medium.com/equal-citizens/on-the-equal-protect-clause-argument-and-the-national-popular-vote-project-f4d75901151b#.kzkrq46f4) Dahlia Lithwick and David Cohen, Buck Up, Democrats, and Fight Like Republicans (http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/14/opinion/buck-up-democrats-and-fight-like-republicans.html) David Corn, A Veteran Spy Has Given the FBI Information Alleging a Russian Operation to Cultivate Donald Trump (http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/10/veteran-spy-gave-fbi-info-alleging-russian-operation-cultivate-donald-trump) John Broich, How US Journalists Normalized the Rise of Hitler and Mussolini (http://www.pri.org/stories/2016-12-13/how-us-journalists-normalized-rise-hitler-and-mussolini-0) (citing Dorothy Thompson’s 1935 observation: “No people ever recognize their dictator in advance.”) Special Guest: Lori Ringhand.

Lawrence Lessig, Director of the Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics and Professor of Law at Harvard Law School spoke at Dartmouth on May 27, 2010. Professor Lessig discussed the connection between special interest money and critical policy decisions, explaining why past attempts at reform have gone nowhere, and then presented a way forward that would unite citizens of all backgrounds—left, center, and right—who are fed up with lobbyists’ influence in Washington. This talk was co-sponsored by the Department of Film and Media Studies, the Dartmouth College Library, the Rockefeller Center for Public Policy, Dartmouth Computing Services and Research Computing, and ISTS.

Mike talks with Lawrence Lessig, the Roy L. Furman Professor of Law and Leadership at Harvard Law School. Professor Lessig co-founded Creative Commons in 2001 and is the author of numerous books, including Republic, Lost: Version 2.0 ( https://www.amazon.com/Republic-Lost-Version-Lawrence-Lessig/dp/1455537012/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=republic+lost+2.0&qid=1573506357&sprefix=neal+stephenson&sr=8-1&x=0&y=0 ) which he and Mike talked about on the podcast a few years ago ( here's a link ( http://hwcdn.libsyn.com/p/d/e/7/de7bdb747dcd4c8d/lawrence-lessig-on-campaign-finance-reform.mp3?c_id=21100401&cs_id=21100401&expiration=1573509273&hwt=b33e88836e7c07e0217f3f6d42b7ef98 ) to that interview). In this episode, they discuss about his recent book America, Compromised ( https://www.amazon.com/America-Compromised-Berlin-Family-Lectures/dp/022631653X/ref=sr_1_1?crid=KD1Z8GZ96MG9&keywords=america%2C+compromised&qid=1573506381&sprefix=america%2C+compro%2Caps%2C171&sr=8-1 ). *Topics covered include:* * why the Mafia isn't corrupt, but Congress is * raising the cost of corrupting Congress * giving American citizens Democracy Vouchers * why we should pay members of Congress a lot more * good people in the bad institution of Congress * corruption in the financial industry * why no financial institution heads were prosecuted in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis * corruption in political media * and lots more! *Lawrence Lessig on Twitter* ( https://twitter.com/lessig ) *Listener support helps make The Politics Guys possible*. If you're interested in supporting the show, go to patreon.com/politicsguys ( https://www.patreon.com/politicsguys ) or politicsguys.com/support ( http://www.politicsguys.com/support ). Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-politics-guys/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Lawrence Lessig on Campaign Finance Reform Mike talks with Lawrence Lessig, the Roy L. Furman Professor of Law and Leadership at Harvard Law School. Prior to his time at Harvard, Professor Lessig clerked for not one, but two of Mike's intellectual heroes, Judge Richard Posner and Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. Professor Lessig is the author of numerous books on law, commerce, culture, and ideas. His latest, Republic, Lost, Version 2.0, is a revised and expanded version of Republic, Lost, which Mike says is the best introduction to, and analysis of, not only campaign finance, but the fundamental incentives that drive public policy in the United States. Professor Lessig followed up on Republic, Lost with a major campaign to enact the reforms he believes to be vital to restoring American democracy, including launching a political action committee, giving a number of TED talks, and most notably, running for the Democratic Party's nomination for president in 2016. Professor Lessig Recommends Fifty Shades of Green: High Finance, Political Money, and the U.S. Congress. Thomas Ferguson, Jie Chen, Paul Jorgensen (http://bit.ly/2vCpW9P) Citizens Divided: Campaign Finance Reform and the Constitution. Robert C. Post (http://amzn.to/2vCShx5) Unlock Congress. Michael Golden (http://amzn.to/2vCMB66) Follow Lawrence Lessig on Twitter (https://twitter.com/lessig) Interested in supporting the show and getting even more Politics Guys content? Check out our Insiders program at https://www.patreon.com/politicsguys This week's show is sponsored by: Brooklinen, where listeners get $20 dollars off and free shipping by using promo code tpg at https://www.brooklinen.com Casper, where Politics Guys listeners get $50 dollars toward any mattress purchase by visiting https://www.casper.com/tpg Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-politics-guys/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy