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...they expected her to ease into the new role after spending over five years within what they called one of the most contentious legal environments in the country.“The best oral advocate is someone who can understand what the question is,” said Lawrence Lessig, a Stanford Law School professor who argued a high-profile Internet copyright case before the Supreme Court in 2002. “It’s not about rhetoric.”Lessig will return to Harvard this summer—one of Kagan’s many recruiting coups...
...Kagan poached top faculty like super-star legal scholar Cass R. Sunstein ’75 and Lawrence Lessig. She encouraged intellectual diversity among the faculty, notably hiring Jack L. Goldsmith, a conservative lawyer from the Bush White House, whose office stirred controversy for supporting the use of torture by the government. [CORRECTION APPENDED...
Kagan has received praise for record fundraising, winning approval for significant changes to the first-year curriculum, and poaching distinguished law professors like Chicago’s Cass R. Sunstein ‘75 and Stanford’s Lawrence Lessig...
Acclaimed cyberlaw expert Lawrence Lessig will return to Cambridge next summer, extending Harvard Law School’s recent streak of poaching top-flight professors from rival schools. Lessig will re-assume a professorship at the Law School after nine years at Stanford, where he said he moved in 2000 to be closer to his wife, a native of California. In addition to being a law professor, Lessig will direct the Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics. Calling Lessig “one of the most brilliant and important legal scholars of our time,” Law School...
...Lowdown: Fittingly enough, Lessig's book is a literary remix of sorts. Once dubbed a "philosopher king of Internet law," he writes with a unique mix of legal expertise, historic facts and cultural curiosity, citing everything from turn-of-the-century Congressional testimony to Wikipedia to contemporary best-sellers like Chris Anderson's The Long Tail. The result is a wealth of interesting examples and theories on how and why digital technology and copyright law can promote professional and amateur art. As he sees it, reforming copyright law is the only way to salvage it: "We, as a society...