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Former US Presidential candidate among the Democratic Party (2016), Lester Lawrence Lessig III is an attorney, university lecturer and political activist.   Lawrence holds the Roy L. Furman Professor of Law and Leadership at Harvard University.  He is the former director of the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard.  A supporter of net neutrality, he founded the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford University.  Lessig also formerly taught at the University of Chicago. Early in his career, Lessig clerked for Judge Richard Posner on the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals and for Justice Antonin Scalia on the United States Supreme Court.  His books include: The Don't Represent US: Reclaiming Our Democracy (2019), America, Compromised (2018), Republic, Lost v2 (2015) and Republic, Lost: How Money Corrupts Congress - and a Plan to Stop It (2011).  Other publications of note by Lessig are: Code v2 (2006), The Future of Ideas (2001) and Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace (19