# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/lawrence-lessig
# Generated: 2026-08-12T22:40:30.679Z

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name: "Lawrence Lessig"
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description: "Lester Lawrence \"Larry\" Lessig III 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. 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 U.S. presidential election but withdrew before the primaries."
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump