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London School of Economics and Political Science Event

What AI is doing to America's democracy

10/15/24

In this lecture, Lawrence Lessig will discuss the impact of artificial intelligence on the 2024 American election, and the implications that this will have for democracy in the future. Speakers: Professor Lawrence Lessig Chair: Professor Larry Kramer Full details/attend: https://www. lse. ac. uk/Events/2024/10/202410151830/What-AI-is-doing-to-America's-democracy

Wiki Workshop 2022

How Can the Internet Be So Bad and So Good? The Lessons We Must Draw and That Wiki Must Teach

04/25/22

Keynote from Wiki Workshop 2022 by Lawrence Lessig - "How can the Internet be so bad and so good: The lessons we must draw and that Wiki must teach" See here for more information: https://wikiworkshop. org/2022/#schedule

CodeX FutureLaw 2022 Conference

Computational Law and the Metaverse (Do Virtual Realities Need Law?)

04/07/22

Proponents of the Metaverse tout an interactive, virtual environment of the near future where people will spend substantial portions of their lives. If this vision arises, some worry about novel legal issues ranging from digital land ownership to virtual sexual harrassment. Do such ubiquitous, virtual realities need a legal framework? This panel will examine the “Law of the Metaverse”, examining closely some of

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

The Birth of Wikipedia and the Future of the Internet

Reflecting on Wikipedia after 20 years and its impact on the internet, education and society

12/09/21

The Directors of Christie's invite you to a panel discussion with panelists, Jimmy Wales, Co-Founder, Wikipedia; and Lawrence Lessig, Co-Founder, Creative Commons & Roy L. Furman Professor of Law and Leadership, Harvard Law School. Moderated by Peter Klarnet, Christie's Senior Specialist, Books and Manuscripts.

Building a Coalition that Will WIN

WOLF-PAC VIRTUAL WARRIOR WORKSHOP 2021

12/04/21

Money has become too influential in United States elections. Our government serves the interests of wealthy campaign donors instead of most Americans. For over 10 years, Wolf-PAC has been working to fight this systemic corruption and, while we haven't yet achieved our ultimate goal, we have learned one vital lesson. Our elected officials will never fix this system until an

Democracy: a Harvard Law School Lecture Series

Session 3: Social Media and Democracy

11/15/21

A Nov. 15 panel on Social Media and Democracy featuring Nate Persily (Stanford Law), Jamal Greene (Columbia Law), and Tristan Harris (Center for Humane Technology), moderated by Harvard Law School Professor Lawrence Lessig. In the last few years, politicians, activists, academics, among many others, have become increasingly concerned about the role of social media in American democracy. The concerns are myriad. They

Could This ONE CHANGE Cut Down on the Spread of Facebook MISINFORMATION?

TYT The Conversation

11/08/21

Cenk Uygur interviews Harvard Law Professor Lawrence Lessig about the dangers behind Facebook's AI and how it spreads hate speech.

Will Facebook Face A Reckoning After Leaked Documents?

Greater Boston GBH News

10/27/21

Disturbing information about Facebook’s practices continue to come to light, thanks to whistleblower Frances Haugen. Adviser to Haugen and Harvard Law School professor Lawrence Lessig joined Jim Braude to discuss the latest allegations against the tech company.

#CCSummit2021 Keynote by Lawrence Lessig

Creative Commons Summit 2021

09/23/21

The 2021 CC Global Summit was our biggest yet—the week-long event welcomed 330 speakers from all over the world and 170+ sessions! This year, we hosted five keynotes from global leaders in the open movement, who shared their work in open data, science and health, software and law. This is a recording of our final keynote of the CC Global Summit by Lawrence Lessig,

DECODING the Dems' Plan for HR1

06/18/21

Harvard Law Professor Larry Lessig speaks with Cenk Uygur on The Conversation about the current state of voting rights legislation.

Social Media and the First Amendment

06/16/21

Talk given to the American Bar Foundation, 2021 June 16

Seinfeld's Jason Alexander Asks: "What's The Deal With H.R. 1?"

06/04/21

Seinfeld's Jason Alexander speaks with Harvard Law School's Lawrence Lessig and the Brennan Center's Elizabeth Hira about the most important fair elections bill in generations (the For The People Act). This event, which took place on June 4th, was co-sponsored by Equal Citizens, The Brennan Center for Justice, RepresentUs, End Citizens United, Common Cause, the Declaration for American Democracy Coalition, and Open Democracy

Larry Lessig on the For the People Act

TYT The Conversation

05/28/21

Harvard Law Professor Larry Lessig speaks with David Shuster on The Conversation about why passing the For the People Act (H. R. 1) is so important.

The United States: Another Minoritarian Nation

TEDxWarwick

04/08/21

Harvard Professor Lawrence Lessig powerfully makes the case that the United States is becoming a minoritarian nation. He argues that in order for the United States to truly be a majoritarian democracy, there are several legislative changes which need to take place. Only these changes will allow American society to flourish. After transforming intellectual-property law with his Creative Commons innovation, he has devoted

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.

A More Perfect Union: Ideas to Improve Our Democracy

The Aspen Institute

12/10/20

This SOF Digital Discussion features Lawrence Lessig, Roy L. Furman Professor of Law and Leadership at Harvard Law School; Michele Moody-Adams, Straus Professor of Political Philosophy and Legal Theory at Columbia University; and Yascha Mounk, Associate Professor at Johns Hopkins University; in conversation with Lulu Garcia-Navarro, host of NPR’s Weekend Edition Sunday and co-host of NPR’s morning news podcast Up First. Guided by Garcia-Navarro,

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.

Regulating campaign spending would root out corruption in our electoral process

Business Casual

10/13/20

We know there’s an ungodly amount of money tied up in politics, much of it collected in the campaign finance stage. What we often don’t know is where it comes from and what its aims are. What if we could shift the way we interpret and regulate campaign spending? That kind of shift might just root out deep-seated corruption in our electoral process.

America's Corrupt Political System

Wolf-PAC

09/25/20

Harvard Law Professor Lawrence Lessig Explains corruption in American politics. Why is American politics so dysfunctional? Lawrence Lessig, profound speaker, activist and law professor, details corporate money as the corrupt root obstructing progress on all issues in America’s political system and the importance of the strategy to call for a convention to introduce a constitutional amendment addressing campaign finance reform. Hosts: Lawrence Lessig

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.

Smart Contracts and DApps

MIT OpenCourseWare

01/23/20

This session covers smart contracts, blockchain design, DApps, and tokens. Harvard professor Lawrence Lessig explains the legal issues of smart contracts [time stamp: 33:28].

Lessig on Getting Money out of Politics

TYT The Conversation

01/06/20

Law professor Lawrence Lessig joins Ana on The Conversation.

They Don't Represent Us: Reclaiming Our Democracy

Politics & Prose

11/22/19

Lawrence Lessig discusses his book, "They Don't Represent Us", at Politics and Prose. In this non-partisan analysis of today’s political divisiveness, Lessig identifies unrepresentativeness as the one problem that underlies the others. He sees it both in institutions—such as the media’s response to narrow interests rather than to those of the wider citizenry—and in the people, who are uninformed about the issues. Lessig,

They Don't Represent Us: Reclaiming Our Democracy

Brennan Center for Justice

11/21/19

In his new book, "They Don’t Represent Us," Harvard Law School professor Lawrence Lessig charts the ways in which the fundamental institutions of our democracy respond to narrow interests rather than to the needs and wishes of the nation’s citizenry. At this event, Lessig explored the causes and consequences of “unrepresentativeness” and called for significant reforms including public campaign funding, a reformed Electoral College, and

What's Next for American Democracy?

National Constitution Center

11/20/19

Lawrence Lessig, author of the new book They Don't Represent Us: Reclaiming Our Democracy, Daniel Epps of Washington University in St. Louis Law School, and Howard Rich, chairman of U. S. Term Limits, discuss the future of elections, term limits, calls for a constitutional convention, and other reforms, including how to address gerrymandering after the Supreme Court’s decision in Rucho v. Common Cause

Lessig on Why "They Don't Represent Us"

WGBH Greater Boston

11/19/19

In his new book, Harvard law professor Lawrence Lessig argues that American democracy is broken not only because of partisanship in Washington, but also because the American system of government does not properly ensure representation under the ideal of "one person, one vote. " To discuss what ails us — and how to potentially fix it — Jim Braude was joined by Lessig to discuss 'They

The Electoral College

Harvard Law School

10/19/19

Keynote Luncheon with Professor Lawrence Lessig & Political Consultant Stuart Stevens.

Fidelity and Constraint: How the Supreme Court Has Read the American Constitution

HLS Library Book Talk

09/25/19

On September 25, Harvard Law School Professor discussed his book "Fidelity & Constraint: How the Supreme Court Has Read the American Constitution, as part of an ongoing series of talks sponsored by the Harvard Law School Library. In his talk, Lessig explains that one of the most basic approaches to interpreting the constitution is the process of translation. Indeed, some of the most significant

How Democracy Survives the Internet

Wikimedia Deutschland

09/12/19

Lawrence Lessig, Mitgründer Creative Commons und Professor der Rechtswissenschaften an der Harvard Law School, sprach am 12. September 2019 mit John Weitzmann, Leiter Politik & Recht und Syndikus bei Wikimedia Deutschland e. V. Wir fragten Lessig am Tag vor seiner Keynote "How Democracy survives the Internet: The lessons Wikipedia can teach" auf der Konferenz "Das ist Netzpolitik! " in der Berliner Volksbühne: -

We Need Candidates Committed to Reforming the System

NowThis News

05/23/19

This expert says Obama and Trump failed to ‘clean up Washington’ the way they promised to—but there’s one woman on Capitol Hill he thinks is taking on the challenge.

On what we should know — and what we must inspire the politicians to do

Reclaim our Democracy Talk

04/29/19

Talk given to Reclaim our Democracy, Concord, MA, on April 29, 2019. The talk is about 30 minutes; there is a question and answer session at the end.

Democracy's Greatest Challenge: The Demos

04/27/19

EuropaCamp 2019 Lawrence Lessig, Roy L. Furman Professor of Law and Leadership, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, beim EuropaCamp der ZEIT-Stiftung Ebelin und Gerd Bucerius auf Kampnagel, Hamburg

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.

Unrig Summit: Saturday Morning Plenary

Unrig Summit 2019

03/30/19

Lessig speech time stamp: 14:25 Spoken word artist Regie Gibson will open Saturday’s programming at Unrig. Hosted by actor Max Carver, and Jen Johnson of RepresentUs, Part 1 of the Morning Plenary will feature short talks from: * Tequila M. Johnson, Co-Founder and Vice President, The Equity Alliance; * Lawrence Lessig, Harvard Professor; and * State Representative Ruth Buffalo, North Dakota House of Representatives.

What's Wrong with a Little Transparency?

Unrig Summit 2019

03/29/19

What's Wrong with a Little Transparency? While the political reform community continues to push for greater government transparency and stronger campaign finance disclosure laws, some say these reforms would go too far. The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) views donor privacy as critical to free speech, and the Congressional Research Institute sees pitfalls in the rise of legislative transparency. Panelists from those two

America, Compromised

HLS Library Book Talk

03/27/19

The Harvard Law School Library hosted Lawrence Lessig for a talk on his latest book, "America, Compromised," which the University of Chicago press calls a "sweeping indictment of contemporary American institutions and the corruption that besets them. "

America, Compromised

Harvard Bookstore-WGBH Network Forum

02/01/19

In America, Compromised Lawrence Lessig captures a snapshot of contemporary America and forms an argument on how the institutions of the American government have come to be the way they are. Throughout the book, Lessig shows that the modern problems plaguing corrupt political institutions cannot simply be blamed upon the "bad people" of society. Rather, Lessig argues that it is compromise that has brought

Lessig: Anti-Trust Laws Can Fix Social Media Bias

The Joe Rogan Experience

12/13/18

Lessig on Bridging the Media Gap between Left and Right

The Joe Rogan Experience

12/13/18

Trump's Presidency Could Bring the Left and Right Together

The Joe Rogan Experience

12/13/18

Does the Electoral College Disenfranchize Voters?

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

Lessig: Facebook Exploits Insecurity to Sell Ads

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

An essentially unrepresentative representative democracy

Harvard Law School Fall Reunion 2018

10/26/18

Keynote address, Harvard Law School Fall Reunion 2018 Luncheon

Lessig on His Legal Fight to End "Winner-Take-All" Rules in Electoral College

WGBH Greater Boston

09/04/18

Is the Electoral College broken? So argues Harvard Law Professor Lawrence Lessig, a former presidential candidate and the founder of the non-profit group Equal Citizens, who along with people like former Mass. Governor Bill Weld, is leading a series of lawsuits to fix it. Lessig joined Jim Braude to discuss.

"How the People Speak"

2018 Holberg Symposium

06/06/18

Abstract: "We must attend to the technical conditions of democratic understanding: how do the people know, and how might that knowledge be improved. In this talk, Lessig will map the ways in which the epistemologies of democratic understanding have changed, and how we might productively respond to those changes. Against a trend arguing that we should listen less to the people, Lessig describes how

Getting to the Root of the Problem: Lawrence Lessig

Mixed Mental Arts, ep. 346

01/23/18

During the presidential election of 2016, one man dared to stand up to speak the truths that needed to be spoken. He was (of course) denied a forum. Mixed Mental Arts aims to remedy that situation. That's right! Lawrence Lessig returns!

Unequal as Funders

TEDxBeaconStreet November 2017

11/18/17

At the core of our constitution is the ideal of equality. Two centuries of compromise has let us forget that. If we’re to recover a representative democracy, we must defend again its simple ideal — that all citizens are equal. Lawrence Lessig is the Roy L. Furman Professor of Law and Leadership at Harvard Law School. Prior to rejoining the Harvard

Equal We Are Not

TEDxDirigo

11/04/17

We have allowed a radical inequality to evolve within our political system; we don’t see it, but we must repair it if we’re to have a democracy that might count. Professor Lawrence Lessig explains that our democracy is failing, not because there are too many Republicans in Congress, or too many Democrats, but because the basic commitment of a representative democracy — political equality —

Is It Time to Reform the Electoral College?

WGBH Greater Boston

10/10/17

After the 2016 election, plenty of people called for the major changes to the electoral college. Among them was Harvard Law professor and former Democratic candidate for president, Lawrence Lessig. He joined Jim Braude to discuss how his non-profit, Equal Citizens, wants to change the way the United States votes.

Does your vote for president really count?

10/10/17

If you don't happen to live in one of the 14 battleground states in the U. S. , your vote for president simply doesn't matter. And if you're a Democrat in Texas or a Republican in California, your vote doesn't even count. We can fix this. We have a solid strategy and the best legal team possible.

Here's how social media hurts democracy

CNBC Power Lunch

09/18/17

Lawrence Lessig, Harvard Law School, discusses whether Facebook and other social media giants need regulation following the revelation of Russian ad spending during the election.

How digital destroyed democracy

TEDxBerlinSalon

07/02/17

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

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.

Political leadership in times of digital populism

TEDxBerlinSalon

01/11/17

Lawrence Lessig on "Political leadership in times of digital populism" at TEDxBerlinSalon "Leading in the Digital Age".

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

Science and the Data Revolution

APB Speakers

11/02/16

One of the most inspiring and visionary thought leaders of the digital age, Lawrence Lessig occupies a unique place at the intersection of transformative ideals, citizen activism and the future of the law, digital technologies, and democracy itself. His signature rapid-fire presentation style, known as the “Lessig Method” uses dynamic typography and thought-provoking visuals to seize attention and deeply inform.

How Scalia Shaped Conservative Legal Theory

MSNBC News LIVE

02/14/16

Supreme Justice Antonin Scalia said that progress should be advanced by the political branches, and the court's job was more modest -- to interpret the law. Scalia's co-author and friend, Bryan Garner, MSNBC's Irin Carmon and Harvard Law Professor Lawrence Lessig join to discuss.

Scalia's Legacy

MSNBC LIVE

02/14/16

Bryan Garner, Antonin Scalia's friend and co-author, and Lawrence Lessig, who clerked for Scalia, reflect on the Supreme Court Justice's death and legacy.

Déjà vu all over again: Thinking through law & code, again

Blockchain Workshops

12/11/15

Keynote given at the #BlockchainSYD workshop, December 11, 2015, Sydney, Australia

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”.

Where Are You?

Talk at Phillips Exeter Academy

11/20/15

Talk to the students at Phillips Exeter Academy, November 20, 2015

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.

Our democracy no longer represents the people. Here's how we fix it.

TEDxMidAtlantic

09/25/15

Lessig makes the case that our democracy has become corrupt with money, leading to inequality that means only 0. 02% of the United States population actually determines who's in power. Lessig says that this fundamental breakdown of the democratic system must be fixed before we will ever be able to address major challenges like climate change, social security, and student debt. This is not

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

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

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)

Ending Institutional Corruption - What is Institutional Corruption?: Lessig in the Dock

Harvard Law School

05/13/15

Lawrence Lessig, Roy L. Furman Professor of Law and Leadership, Harvard Law School; Director, Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics Dennis F. Thompson, Alfred North Whitehead Professor of Political Philosophy, Emeritus, Harvard University; Director Emeritus, Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics

Equality

TEDxVilnius

04/23/15

At the core of the ideal of democracy is conception of equality, practiced today almost no where in any major modern democracy. In this talk, Professor Lessig shows how the American democracy has betrayed this ideal, and the costs to the world from this failure. Lawyer and activist Lawrence Lessig spent a decade arguing for sensible intellectual property law, updated for the digital age.