Harvard Book Store is glad to welcome Harvard law professor LAWRENCE LESSIG for a discussion of his new book, Republic, Lost: How Money Corrupts Congress.
In an era of ballooning corporate campaign expenditures, unleashed by the Supreme Court in Citizens United, trust in our government is at an all time low. More than ever before, Americans believe that money buys results in Congress–and that our Republic has been lost.
Using examples that resonate as powerfully on the Right as on the Left, Republic, Lost not only makes clear how the economy of influence...
4:15–6:00pm: Keynote Address Amartya Sen, Lamont Professor and Professor of Economics and Philosophy, Harvard University Can Justice Help Practice?
Saturday, May 19
Keynote Panel Discussion seJustice: True in Theory but Not in Practice? Amartya Sen and former members of the Center for Ethics:
Ezekiel Emanuel, Director, Center for Bioethics, National Institutes of Health Amy Gutmann, President of the University of Pennsylvania; Former Director, Princeton Center for Human...
The first Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics Lab seminar of the 2013-14 academic year convened on September 9, 2013, and was led by the Center's Director, Professor Lawrence Lessig. Intended as an introductory seminar, Lessig laid the framework for his conception of institutional corruption and presented to the participants of the Lab seminar several examples of its occurrence. Lessig began his presentation with a simple, yet powerful analogy of a compass deviating from...
The first Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics Lab seminar of the 2012-13 academic year convened on September 13, 2012. Professor Lessig gave a presentation on a chapter from his recent book, which defines institutional corruption as something inherently different from individual corruption, such as bribery. Professor Lessig's definition asserts that institutional corruption occurs when institutions develop improper dependencies, resulting in a loss of necessary...
The first Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics Lab Seminar of the 2010-11 academic year convened on September 14, 2010. Participants discussed a chapter from Professor Lessig's upcoming book, which aims to craft a new definition of institutional corruption. This definition goes beyond the ordinary definition of corruption as bribery, to encompass a type of corruption that occurs when institutions develop improper dependencies, resulting in a loss of public trust and a weakening of the effectiveness of...
Opening Remarks by Nancy Rosenblum and Michael Rosen. Institutional Corruptions" by Lawrence Lessig. Chair: Michael Sandel. Respondents: Jane Mansbridge and Kenneth Shepsle. Harvard Law School
A conversation with David Gergen (Director, Center for Public Leadership, Harvard Kennedy School) and Lawrence Lessig (Roy L. Furman Professor of Law, Harvard Law School) about Prof. Lessig's new book Republic Lost: How Money Corrupts Congress--and...
