Results for "Lessig, Lawrence"

From two distinguished experts on election law, an alarming look at how the American presidency could be stolen—by entirely legal means  “Their new book asks whether a second Trump attempt to subvert democracy could succeed. Their answer makes for uncomfortable reading.”—Ed Pilkington, The Guar... Read More about How to Steal a Presidential Election

In his too-short life, Aaron Swartz reshaped the Internet, questioned our assumptions about intellectual property, and touched all of us in ways that we may not even realize. His tragic suicide in 2013 at the age of twenty-six after being aggressively prosecuted for copyright infringement shocked th... Read More about The Boy Who Could Change the World: The Writings of Aaron Swartz

WITH A NEW AFTERWORD ABOUT THE 2020 ELECTION “This urgent book offers not only a clear-eyed explanation of the forces that broke our politics, but a thoughtful and, yes, patriotic vision of how we create a government that’s truly by and for the people.”—DAVID DALEY, bestselling author of Ratf**ked a... Read More about They Don't Represent Us: And Here's How They Could—A Blueprint for Reclaiming Our Democracy

The fundamental fact about our Constitution is that it is old -- the oldest written constitution in the world. The fundamental challenge for interpreters of the Constitution is how to read that old document over time. In Fidelity & Constraint, legal scholar Lawrence Lessig explains that one of ... Read More about Fidelity & Constraint: How the Supreme Court Has Read the American Constitution

My intention with this book was to preserve the writings and attitudes of an era when democracy itself was not being burned down, American sovereignty was not in question, and we asked how we could improve our electoral process instead of how to save it from Russian hackers and a complicit GOP. The ... Read More about Democracy Days: Dispatches From the Obama Era

Freedom of Expression® covers the ways in which intellectual property laws have been used to privatize all forms of expression—from guitar riffs and Donald Trump’s “you’re fired” gesture to human genes and public space—and in the process stifle creative expression. Kembrew McLeod challenges the blin... Read More about Freedom of Expression: Resistance and Repression in the Age of Intellectual Property