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Keynote Address: Lawrence Lessig
October 10, 2002, 10:45am - 12 pm

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Lawrence Lessig is one of the country's leading commentators on legal aspects of new communications technologies and cyberspace.  He is Professor of Law and founder and executive director of the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School. Prior to joining the Stanford faculty, he was the Berkman Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, a professor at the University of Chicago Law School, and a fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin.  Professor Lessig is chairman of the board of Creative Commons and a member of the board of the Electronic Frontier Foundation.  He is the author of many influential publications about cyberlaw and cyberspace, including two books: The Future of Ideas: The Fate of the Commons in a Connected World (2001) and Code, and Other Laws of Cyberspace (1999).  He is counsel to the plaintiffs in Eldred v. Ashcroft.