Events

The Duke University School of Law Program In Intellectual Property

Is Pleased To Announce

The First Annual
Meredith and Kip Frey Lecture In Intellectual Property



To Be Given By
Professor Lawrence Lessig
Stanford Law School
Author, Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace

Friday, March 23, 2001
12:15 P. M.

At
Duke University School of Law
Science Drive and Towerview Road
Durham, North Carolina

The Public Is Invited To Attend

About the Lecture, Architecting Innovation

In this lecture, Professor Lawrence Lessig will discuss the effects of changes in the architecture of the Internet on creativity and innovation, and will suggest the adverse consequences that in turn seem likely unless the issues raised by these changes are satisfactorily addressed:

The architecture of the Internet as it was originally designed created an innovation commons, out of which the extraordinary creativity of the early net was born.

Now this architecture is being changed. The technical and legal context within which the net exists is becoming radically different.

In turn these changes threaten to undermine the opportunities for innovation inherent in the original net.

About the Lecturer

Professor Lessig is a constitutional scholar and leading authority on cyberlaw. Formerly the Jack N. and Lillian R. Berkman Professor for Entrepreneurial Legal Studies at the Harvard Law School, Professor Lessig joined the faculty of the Stanford Law School in 2000.

Professor Lessig received his J.D. from Yale Law School in 1989. He served as Law Clerk to Judge Richard Posner of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, and to Justice Antonin Scalia of The United States Supreme Court. He taught at the University of Chicago Law School before joining the faculty at Harvard.

A prolific and influential author, Professor Lessig’s most recent work includes Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace (Basic Books 1999), of which one reviewer wrote:

Lawrence Lessig is a James Madison of our time, crafting the lineaments of a well-tempered cyberspace. This book is a primer of "running code" for digital civilization. Like Madison, Lessig is a model of balance, judgment, ingenuity and persuasive argument.

S C H E D U L E O F  E V E N T S

W E L C O M E
Dean Katharine T. Bartlett
Duke University School of Law

L E C T U R E
Architecting Innovation
Professor Lawrence Lessig

R E C E P T I O N
Third and Fourth Floor Loggias
The Law School

The Meredith and Kip Frey Lecture in Intellectual Property has been made possible through the generosity of Meredith Frey and Kip Frey (Duke Law ’85).

 

Duke University School of Law
Box 90360
Science Drive and Towerview Road
Durham, North Carolina 27708-0360

For further information about the Lecture described in this brochure, please contact Mr. Kurt Meletzke, Phone: 919 613 7214 or Email: Meletzke@law.duke.edu