According to Harvard University, one of the "most brilliant and important legal scholars of our time" Lawrence Lessig has been appointed to the faculty of Harvard Law School. He'll serve as the faculty director of Harvard University's Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics. Lessig worked at Harvard prior to his time at Stanford. The announcement was made today.
Lessig is a great American academic and political activist. His list of accomplishments is endless, but most recently he was Professor of Law at Stanford Law School before joining Harvard. Lessig is best known as an advocate for "free culture" and movements like CreativeCommons (he was the founder of the Creative Commons Foundation and its first chair), but at the beginning of this year decided to shift his work to combating the corrupt culture of government.
Lessig's return to Harvard will disappoint many who hoped he would take a position in the Obama administration.
To subscribe to just the most popular of Lessig's many blog posts each week, add this feed to your feed reader (filtering performed by Postrank). You can also follow @lessig on Twitter.
Photo CC by Robert Scoble.
TrackBack URL for this entry: http://www.readwriteweb.com/cgi-bin/mt/mt-tb.cgi/9394
Comments
Subscribe to comments for this post OR Subscribe to comments for all Jobwire posts
Lessig is a very interesting and intelligent man. I've enjoyed his work for many years and look forward to more, wherever he lands.
That said, I think he would be wise to flesh out his strong support of Obama + launching the very high profile Change Congress movement, knowing full well where and with whom Obama cut his teeth politically.
Posted by: Dave Johnston
|
December 12, 2008 3:01 PM
skepteye that's some interesting advice. i like it.
Posted by: Marshall Kirkpatrick
|
December 12, 2008 3:01 PM
Gah... twitter but not friendfeed? That's frustrating! :(.
It's just ridiculous trying to have a conversation on twitter :\
Posted by: Adam | December 12, 2008 3:52 PM
Obama wouldn't touch Lessig with a very long stick: too vain, too, volatile, too much baggage.
Posted by: someguy | December 13, 2008 7:56 AM