Editing Lawrence Lessig (section)

{{Short description|American legal scholar and activist (born 1961)}}
{{Distinguish|Lawrence Lessing}}
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{{Infobox person
| name               = Lawrence Lessig
| image              = File:Lessig in 2024.png
| caption            = Lessig in 2024
| alt                = Lessig looking at the camera
| birth_name         = Lester Lawrence Lessig III
| birth_date         = {{birth date and age|1961|6|3}}
| birth_place        = [[Rapid City, South Dakota]], U.S.
| death_date         = 
| death_place        = 
| education          = [[University of Pennsylvania]] ([[Bachelor of Arts|BA]], [[B. S.|BS]])<br>[[Trinity College, Cambridge]] ([[Master of Arts|MA]])<br>[[Yale University]] ([[Juris Doctor|JD]])
| known_for          = founding [[Creative Commons]] and [[Equal Citizens]]
| title              = Director of the [[Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics]] at [[Harvard University]] (2009–2015)
| party              = [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]]
| movement           = {{hlist | [[Free-culture movement]] | [[electoral reform]] movement}}
| spouse             = {{marriage|Bettina Neuefeind|1999}}
| children           = 3|
| website            = {{official URL}}
}}
'''Lester Lawrence''' "'''Larry'''" '''Lessig III''' (born June 3, 1961) is an American legal scholar and [[political activist]]. He is the Roy L. Furman Professor of Law at [[Harvard Law School]] and the former director of the [[Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics]] at [[Harvard University]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://hls.harvard.edu/faculty/directory/10519/Lessig/|title=Harvard Law School Faculty Lawrence Lessig|access-date=September 7, 2015|archive-date=September 6, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150906133854/http://hls.harvard.edu/faculty/directory/10519/Lessig|url-status=live}}</ref> He is the founder of [[Creative Commons]] and of [[Equal Citizens]]. Lessig was a [[Lawrence Lessig presidential campaign, 2016|candidate]] for the [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic Party]]'s nomination for [[president of the United States]] in the [[2016 United States presidential election|2016 U.S. presidential election]] but withdrew before the primaries.