What is Lawrence Lessig?
{{Infobox person | name = Lawrence Lessig | image = Lawrence Lessig May 2017.jpg | caption = | birth_date = {{birth date and age|mf=yes|1961|6|3}} | birth_place = [[Rapid City, South Dakota]], U.S. | death_date = | death_place = | occupation = academic and political activist | known for = Founder, [[Creative Commons]]<br />Founder, [[Rootstrikers]]<br />Founder, [[Stanford Center for Internet and Society]] | spouse = Bettina Neuefeind | children = | alma_mater = [[Wharton School]]<br />[[Trinity College, Cambridge]]<br />[[Yale Law School]] | employer = [[Harvard University]] | title = Director of the [[Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics]] at [[Harvard University]]<br />Professor of law at [[Harvard Law School]] | education = B.S. in management<br /> B.A. in economics<br />M.A. in [[philosophy]]<br />Juris Doctor in law | website = [http://lessig.org/ lessig.org] | footnotes = }} '''Lester Lawrence Lessig III''' (born June 3, 1961) is an [[Americans|American]] [[Academia|academic]] and [[political activist]]. He is known for his work in reducing legal restrictions on [[copyright]], [[trademark]] and [[radio frequency]], and helped create the [[free culture]] movement. He has been an activist against the [[Second Amendment to the United States Constitution|Second Amendment]] and created the [[Second Constitutional Convention of the United States|Second Constitutional Convention]].<ref name=twsNovQ11>{{cite news | author = Alesh Houdek | title = Has a Harvard Professor Mapped Out the Next Step for Occupy Wall Street? | work = [[The Atlantic]] | quote = Lawrence Lessig's call for state-based activism on behalf of a Constitutional Convention could provide the uprooted movement with a political project for winter | date = November 16, 2011 | url = https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2011/11/has-a-harvard-professor-mapped-out-the-next-step-for-occupy-wall-street/247561/ | access-date