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Southern Methodist University’s Underwood Law Library’s 50th Anniversary Celebration

A Minoritarian Democracy

03/31/22

Keynote at SMU Dedman School of Law celebrating the Underwood Library's 50th anniversary, 31 March 2022. This talk frames both the problem with the US government and the problem with us. Essentially where my thinking is, as of now, and especially focused on the bit at the end — that our (boomer generation) has failed our kids, and that the problems we leave are

Exciting Updates on Voting Rights & Money in Politics

TYT The Conversation

03/19/21

Law Professor Larry Lessig speaks with Cenk Uygur on The Conversation about the importance of the For the People Act.

Trump's Final Play to Steal the Election

TYT The Conversation

12/09/20

Professor of Law at Harvard Larry Lessig speaks with Francesca Fiorentini on The Conversation about why he's worried about state legislatures attempting to hand the election to Trump.

Lessig on How Trump Could Try to Steal the Election

TYT The Conversation

11/06/20

Harvard Law Professor Larry Lessig speaks with Cenk Uygur on The Conversation about Trump's false accusations of voter fraud.

The World After Coronavirus: The Future of Expertise

BU Pardee Center

09/23/20

Ezra Klein: Why We're Polarized

01/31/20

Vox co-founder and editor-at-large Ezra Klein discusses his book "Why We're Polarized" with Harvard Law professor and former U. S. Presidential candidate, Lawrence Lessig.

Lessig on Getting Money out of Politics

TYT The Conversation

01/06/20

Law professor Lawrence Lessig joins Ana on The Conversation.

I am not willing to accept the country we are leaving our children.

04/07/19

Andrew Yang teams up with Harvard professor Lawrence Lessig and campaign finance advocacy group, Equal Citizens, for a town hall to discuss the importance of fixing our broken political system. Andrew is running for president because he's an American and a parent and he can see the country we will leave to our children and it is not something he is willing to accept.

Restoring Democracy Town Hall with Andrew Yang

04/07/19

Andrew Yang teams up with Harvard professor Lawrence Lessig and Equal Citizens for a town hall to discuss their organization's mission of campaign finance reform, preventing voter suppression and gerrymandering, and re-examining our outdated winner-take-all Electoral College system.

2020 Elections First Quarter Fundraising

CBSN's Red and Blue

04/01/19

The 2020 fundraising battle reached a milestone this weekend. Lawrence Lessig, a professor at Harvard Law School and founder of the organization Equal Citizens, and CBSN political reporter Caitlin Huey-Burns, join CBSN's "Red and Blue" to discuss the first quarter fundraising deadline.

Trump's Presidency Could Bring the Left and Right Together

The Joe Rogan Experience

12/13/18

Lessig Breaks Down Citizens United and Super PACs

The Joe Rogan Experience

12/13/18

Lessig Explains the Unique Evil of Mitch McConnell

The Joe Rogan Experience

12/13/18

How Newt Gingrich Helped to Destroy Congress for Regular People

The Joe Rogan Experience

12/13/18

Lessig: Lobbyists Aren't the Problem, the System Is

The Joe Rogan Experience

12/13/18

Make Congress Accountable with Publicly Funded Elections

The Joe Rogan Experience

12/13/18

Lessig on Why His Generation "Sucks"

NowThis

11/02/18

At least one Boomer — Lawrence Lessig — is being real about his generation. “Because of people like me — over 50, white, especially men — pretty much every awful thing that’s happened in the past 20 years, happened,” he stated. “We elected George Bush which got us the Iraq War. We didn’t elect Al Gore, which meant you didn’t get climate change

What It REALLY Means to Call for an Article V Convention

08/12/18

Lawrence Lessig Speaks at Wolf PAC Warrior Workshop 2018. http://www. wolf-pac. com ​ Harvard Law Professor Lawrence Lessig gives a lesson on what it really means to call for an Article V Convention and why it’s the logical path to address money’s corrupting influence in politics. In this

EqualCitizens.us

TYT's The Conversation

09/13/17

Cenk Uygur (The Young Turks) interviews Larry Lessig, law professor and founder of Equal Citizens. Learn more about the Equal Votes project: https://EqualVotes. US ​

Lessig speaks to NationSwell about Mayday PAC

01/17/17

Harvard Law School Professor and campaign finance-reform activist Lawrence Lessig speaks to NationSwell about his crowd-funded non-partisan Mayday PAC and the inherent irony in the idea.

Electors' lawyer on possible anti-Trump votes

CNN Smerconish

12/15/16

Prof. Lawrence Lessig, who's providing free legal advice to Electors thinking of changing votes, explains Electoral College responsibilities this election.

20 electors could flip

12/15/16

Lessig offering legal support to anti-Trump electors

MSNBC All In with Chris Hayes

12/06/16

Lawrence Lessig, creator of ‘The Electors Trust’ project, joins Chris Hayes to discuss the movement led by Democratic electors to try to persuade at least 37 Republicans to not vote for Trump.

The Electoral College is Constitutionally Allowed to Choose Clinton over Trump

PBS Democracy Now!

11/30/16

As we continue to talk about the U. S. election system, we turn now to Harvard Law professor Lawrence Lessig, who sparked debate over the issue of the Electoral College with his recent op-ed published in The Washington Post titled "The Constitution lets the electoral college choose the winner. They should choose Clinton. " Lessig is a Harvard Law professor who briefly ran for

What I Learned Running for President: The Ethics of Citizenship

Harvard Law School Library Book Talk

11/23/15

Jonathan Zittrain interviews Lawrence Lessig to celebrate the release of the 2016 edition of Lawrence Lessig’s “Republic Lost: The Corruption of Equality and the Steps to End It”.

Campaign 2016 & Campaign Finance Reform

C-SPAN Washington Journal

11/13/15

Lawrence Lessig talked about lessons learned during his brief bid for the Democratic presidential nomination in the 2016 election cycle. He also discussed campaign finance reform, which was a central issue in his campaign.

Lessig Exits Democratic Race

MSNBC Rachel Maddow

11/02/15

Rachel Maddow reports that Lawrence Lessig has announced he is quitting the race for the Democratic nomination for the presidency.

Lessig on Critical Campaign Issue

MSNBC The Last Word

11/02/15

Former Democratic candidate Lawrence Lessig was known for running a campaign about one issue – campaign finance. But he explains to MSNBC’s Alex Wagner how the goal of his campaign was something bigger than that one issue.

Why Is the Democratic Party Afraid of Larry Lessig?

TYT The Conversation

10/20/15

Lawrence Lessig is running for president as a Democrat, but you wouldn’t know it from watching the first Democratic debate on CNN. Lessig’s solitary focus is on ending the corrosive, corrupting influence of money on the American political system, a position that may be too hot for the Democratic National Committee, which barred Lessig from the first Democratic debate on October 13th in Las Vegas.

Real Time with Bill Maher: Overtime

HBO Real Time with Bill Maher

10/16/15

Bill Maher and his guests – Johann Hari, Katrina vanden Heuvel, John Feehery and Lawrence Lessig – answer viewer questions after the show.

Lessig absent from debate, takes questions

MSNBC The Last Word

10/13/15

Democratic presidential candidate Lawrence Lessig says ‘We have to win our democracy back. ’ Lessig joins MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell to talk about what he would have said had he been on the debate stage in Las Vegas.

Lessig Wants to Debate

MSNBC All In with Chris Hayes

10/09/15

Chris Hayes talks to Democratic presidential candidate Lawrence Lessig about why he's being kept out of next week's debate.

Lessig, 2016 Presidential Candidate, Talks with AJ+

AJ+

10/09/15

Harvard professor, Creative Commons founder and legal genius Lawrence Lessig is running for president. Upon winning, he promises to fix the problem of money in politics and then resign. He sat down with AJ+, and we chose the top seven things that most American politicians aren’t discussing.

Lessig Raises $1 Million for Presidential Bid

MSNBC MTP Daily

10/06/15

Harvard law professor Lawrence Lessig tells MTP Daily's Chuck Todd that he's raised $1 million in his insurgent bid for Democratic presidential nomination but still faces formidable obstacles.

Interview with Presidential Candidate Lawrence Lessig

C-SPAN Road to the White House 2016

09/21/15

Professor Lawrence Lessig , a 2016 Democratic presidential candidate, was interviewed as part of a C-SPAN series of conversations with candidates. He talked about his life and work and reasons for running for president.

2015 New Hampshire Democratic Party State Convention

C-SPAN Road to the White House 2016

09/19/15

Candidate for the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton , former Governor Martin O’Malley (D-MD), Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT ), former Governor Lincoln Chafee (D-RI), and Harvard Law Professor Lawrence Lessig , spoke at the 2015 New Hampshire Democratic Party

2016 candidate promises to resign if elected

MSNBC The Last Word

09/14/15

Harvard Law School professor Lawrence Lessig announces his candidacy for the Democratic nomination with a surprising caveat: if elected, he'll resign after passing a new law on campaign finance reform. He joins Lawrence to make his case.

Lessig and the "Dilemma of Frodo"

MSNBC The Last Word

09/14/15

Lawrence Lessig likens his presidential bid to Frodo Baggins in 'Lord of the Rings'

Lessig to campaign on campaign issue only

MSNBC Rachel Maddow

09/08/15

Rachel Maddow reports that Lawrence Lessig has reached a fundraising milestone to allow him to enter the Democratic primary, in which he will run on the sole issue of campaign finance reform. Monmouth University Polling Institute director Patrick Murray discusses how pollsters take campaigns like Lessig's into account in polls.

Lessig Announces He'll Run for President

TYT The Conversation

09/08/15

Harvard Law professor Lawrence Lessig, godfather of the campaign finance reform movement, threatened to run for president. He said getting money out of politics is the most important issue which all lesser issues hinge upon. He has now reached his goal and will be entering the Democratic primary. Cenk Uygur, host of the The Young Turks, breaks it down. Tell us what

Who is Lawrence Lessig?

CNN New Day

09/07/15

Professor and campaign finance reform crusader Lawrence Lessig announces White House bid.

Lessig: 2016 "referendum candidate"

MSNBC The Briefing

09/04/15

Harvard professor and activist Lawrence Lessig joins The Briefing to make the case for his ‘referendum’ candidacy for president. His three foundational goals are to create a voting holiday, end gerrymandering, and establish citizen-funded elections.

Lessig for President?

WGBH Greater Boston

09/01/15

Time stamp: Lessig 13:04

Lessig on how to fix the American election systems

CNN Fareed Zakaria GPS

08/20/15

Harvard professor and possible presidential contender Lawrence Lessig tells Fareed how to fix the rigged U. S. political system.

Can Lawrence Lessig Win the Presidency and Get Money out of Politics?

TYT The Conversation

08/20/15

Harvard Law Professor and longtime political activist Lawrence Lessig wants to win the presidency of the United States to accomplish one critical objective: ending the corrupting influence of money on politics. With that done, he says he’ll step down and let someone else take over the Oval Office. It’s a radical notion, the single-issue presidential candidacy, but as he points out, only a radical

This man wants to be POTUS, pass reform, resign

MSNBC Morning Joe

08/12/15

Harvard professor Lawrence Lessig joins Morning Joe to discuss forming an exploratory committee for the 2016 Democratic nomination, why as president he would work to resolve one issue and then leave office.

Lawrence Lessig 2016?

MSNBC All In with Chris Hayes

08/11/15

Chris Hayes talks to Lawrence Lessig, a Harvard professor, who today announced an exploratory committee for the 2016 Democratic nomination.

One-on-one with Lawrence Lessig

WGBH Greater Boston

06/01/15

One-on-one with Lawrence Lessig (time stamp: 7:58)

The frozen 500

CNN Hambycast

02/05/15

In the frozen north of New Hampshire, a small band of reformers led by political activist Lawrence Lessig march through the winter to protest the flood of money in politics. Will anyone listen?

Who the MayDay PAC is supporting in midterms

MSNBC UP with Steve Kornacki

10/26/14

Lawrence Lessig, chief organizer behind the MayDay Super PAC, discusses how he intends to use his super PAC to reduce the influence of money in politics and which candidates he's supporting.

An unexpected twist from NH primary results

MSNBC Ronan Farrow Daily

09/10/14

MayDay PAC founder Lawrence Lessig explains why losing ‘badly’ against Scott Brown in yesterday’s New Hampshire primary is still a win for the anti-big-money-in-politics PAC.

What can eradicate dark money from politics?

MSNBC Now with Alex Wagner

08/01/14

Harvard Law Professor Lawrence Lessig discusses Mayday PAC, his Super PAC that aims to end all Super PACs.

Combating the power of Super PACs

MSNBC Ronan Farrow Daily

05/06/14

Harvard Law Professor Lawrence Lessig joins Ronan Farrow to discuss the Super PAC he created and if they are bad for America.