Prof. Lawrence Lessig: A Timeline


 April - With Joe Trippi founds Change Congress [became Rootstrikers].
Oct. - Author of Republic, Lost (Twelve/Grand Central Publishing)..
 Feb. - Author of One Way Forward (eBook from Byliner
 Appointed as the Roy L. Furman Professor of Law and Leadership at Harvard.
Lesterland TED talk.
 Jan. 10-24 - NHRebellion walk (+).
May - Launches Mayday PAC.
 Aug. 11 - Launches exploratory committee; seeks to raise $1m by Labor Day.
Sept. 9 - Announces candidacy in Claremont, NH (>).

Jan. 20 - Age on Inauguration Day 55 years, 7.6 months.

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Professor at Stanford Law School, 2000-09.
Founds the Center for Internet and Society.
 Co-founds Creative Commons.
Author of The Future of Ideas (Random House).
 Argues Eldred v. Ashcroft before the U.S. Supreme Court.. > [inital lawsuit filed in Jan. 1999]
Author of Free Culture (Penguin Press HC).
Author of Code v.2.0 (Basic Books).
Author of Remix (Penguin Press HC). Returns to Harvard as professor and director of the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics.
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Clerks for a year with U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia.
 Professor at the University of Chicago Law School, 1991-97.




Professor at Harvard Law School, 1997-2000.
Special master on Dept. of Justice v. Microsoft.
 Feb. - Dismissed as special master.
 Author of Code: And Other Laws of Cyberspace (Basic Books).
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B.A. in economics from University of Pennsylvania.

Master's degree in philosophy from Cambridge University, 1986.
One year at University of Chicago Law School, 1986-87.
 Switches to Yale Law School.
J.D. from Yale Law School.
Clerks for a year with Judge Richard Posner of the 7th Circuit Cort of Appeals in Chicago
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At American Boychoir School, in Princeton, NJ for 6th-9th grades, 1972-76.





Graduates from Loyalsock Township High School in Williamsport, PA.  Starts at University of Pennsylvania.
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June 3, 1961 - Born in Rapid City, SD.







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married to Bettina Neuefeind; they have three children.
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