Lawrence Lessig

Lawrence Lessig
Lessig in 2017
Born	Lester Lawrence Lessig III (1961-06-03) June 3, 1961 (age 62) Rapid City, South Dakota, U.S.
Education	University of Pennsylvania (BA, BS) Trinity College, Cambridge (MA) Yale University (JD)
Known for	founding Creative Commons and Equal Citizens
Title	Director of the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University (2009–2015)
Political party	Democratic
Movement	Free-culture movement electoral reform movement
Spouse	Bettina Neuefeind ​ (m. 1999)​
Website	lessig.org

Lester Lawrence 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.^[1] He is the founder of Creative Commons and Equal Citizens. Lessig was a candidate for the Democratic Party's nomination for president of the United States in the 2016 US presidential election but withdrew before the primaries.