OLLI: The Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Berkshire Community College. 01:26:35

The OLLI Distinguished Speakers Series presents Harvard Law School Professor Lawrence Lessig on his new book How to Steal a Presidential Election, with Doug Mishkin. Sometimes the only thing worse than illegal conduct is legal conduct. In his new book, How to Steal a Presidential Election, Harvard Law Professor Lawrence Lessig describes how a presidential candidate could legally subvert a legitimate election result—from vice-presidential intervention to election decertification and beyond. With his co-author Matthew Seligman, Lessig explains how some of these strategies might even be constitutional. The book exposes correctable weaknesses in our system, including one that could be corrected only by the Supreme Court. 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. He clerked for Judge Richard Posner on the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals and Justice Antonin Scalia on the United States Supreme Court. He holds numerous honorary degrees. Lessig is the founder of Equal Citizens and a founding board member of Creative Commons. He serves on the Scientific Board of AXA Research Fund, is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society. He has received numerous awards including a Webby, the Free Software Foundation's Freedom Award, Scientific American 50 Award, and Fastcase 50 Award. Lessig’s early work focused on law and technology, especially as it affects copyright. His current work addresses the failure of democracy, and innovations to reform democracy. He is the author of hundreds of articles and essays, and a dozen books. Professor Lessig was interviewed by Doug Mishkin, a frequent OLLI speaker and interviewer. In Partnership with the Berkshire Museum