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...therefore implore members of the Harvard community who are at-large members of ICANN to vote for those who will work to make the organization more democratic. Lawrence Lessig, formerly of Harvard Law School and now a law professor at Stanford, has written eloquently of the need to defend the public interest online; one of the candidates for election in North America, Lessig would be an excellent choice for voters concerned about ICANN's exercise of public powers in a private system. Other promising candidates include Barbara Simons, former president of the Association of Computing Machinery and Karl Auerbach...
...Lessig, who served as an adviser to Judge Jackson in the Microsoft case, is a Harvard law professor, a fellow at Berlin's Wissenschaftskolleg and author of Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace
...Lessig's Microsoft brief made him famous, but he's not resting on his laurels. Last month he told The New York Times that the pending AOL-Time Warner merger makes him "deeply, deeply pessimistic." Steve Case and Gerald Levin couldn't be blamed if they're feeling nervous...
...Although he says he loves Harvard Law School and its Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Lessig plans to leave for Stanford in the fall for family reasons. "The loss is incalculable," one colleague said...
...Even in his brief tenure, Lessig has proven that professors who stay on top of surging changes in technology will prosper. As policymakers stumble through the Internet maze, they will increasingly turn to academics like Lessig to be their guides...