Larry Lessig Tomorrow, 9/25

I'm interrupting the flow of Mt. Lebanon news and exercising a momentary author's prerogative to bring news of an event that has nothing to do with Lebo but that may (and I hope will) be of interest to a lot of Lebo residents:

My colleague Lawrence Lessig, well-known to many in the blogosphere and well beyond for his ceaseless efforts to reform copyright and tamp down the control that Big Corporations exercise over free speech, is coming to the University of Pittsburgh tomorrow (Thursday, Sept. 25) to give a *free* *public* lecture. So you're all invited, along with your friends and neighbors and cousins in the mainstream media (to the Post-Gazette and KDKA and their relations: I don't think that Pitt sent out a press release, so consider yourselves invited, too!).

What it's about:

"A Declaration for Independence"

There is a growing threat to some of the most important institutions in our culture and political life from an improper dependence on money. In this lecture, Professor Lessig will describe this threat to institutions, from the academy to Congress, and the developing movement to check it.

Professor Lessig is a professor of law at Stanford University. He previously taught at Harvard Law School and the University of Chicago. He graduated from Yale Law School and clerked for Judge Richard Posner and Justice Antonin Scalia. (Both impressive and surprising for someone who now finds himself leading the vanguard of grass-roots progressive politics.) Not that it matters much to most folks, but he's a son of the Commonwealth. He grew up in Williamsport.

Here's my Pittsblog post with abundant details and a cool copy of the event poster. To sum up:

Lessig.
University of Pittsburgh School of Law (Forbes & Bouquet in Oakland, across the street from the "O"). Teplitz Moot Courtroom -- that's on the lower level.
3 p.m. to 5 p.m.
Free.
Open to the public.
No RSVP required.

As you were. Thanks.