Of ce of the Vice-President Vice-President Of ce of the (Research and Technology) 3442 9049 Tel: 3442 0322 Fax: Email: [email protected] Enquiries: Distinguished Lecture Series Speaker Harvard Law School Harvard Professor Lawrence Lessig Professor Lawrence Roy L. Furman Professor of Law and Leadership Furman L. Roy , 8 October 2018 at 4:30 pm

Online registration: Online registration: http://www.cityu.edu.hk/vprt/distinguished_lecture_series/upcoming.htm Biography Professor Lawrence Lessig is the Roy L. Furman Professor of Law and Leadership at Harvard Law School. Prior to returning to Harvard, he taught at Stanford Law School, where he founded the Center for Internet and Society, and at the University of Chicago. Professor Lessig is a founding board member of Creative Commons. He serves on the Scienti c Board of AXA Research Fund. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Association, he has received numerous awards, including a Webby, the Free Software Foundation's Freedom Award, Scienti c American 50 Award, and the Fastcase 50 Award. Internet the in property intellectual on thinker important most “the as Yorker New The by Cited affects it as especially technology, and law on career his of much focused has Lessig Professor era,” legal, while which, corruption”—relationships “institutional addresses work current His copyright. democracy. affects that as institution—especially an in trust public weaken and Art Making Remix: (2011), Lost Republic, (2015), v2 Lost Republic, include: books His (2001), Ideas of Future The (2006), v2 Code (2008), Economy Hybrid the in Thrive Commerce (1999). Cyberspace of Laws Other and Code and of University the from management in BS a and economics in BA a holds Lessig Professor Yale. from JD a and University, Cambridge from philosophy in MA an Pennsylvania, In this talk, Professor Lessig will describe thepeculiar way thatthe idea of democracy has evolved in America, and the challenge that creates for America and the world. Abstract at Multi-media Conference Room Connie Fan Building Yick-chi 4/F Cheng of Hong Kong City University Kowloon Avenue, Chee Tat Monday on with American with American characteristics Democracy — — Democracy City University Distinguished Lecture Series Distinguished City University