Rebooting Our Democracy

Published: May 27, 2010, 7 a.m.

Lawrence Lessig, Director of the Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics and Professor of Law at Harvard Law School spoke at Dartmouth on May 27, 2010. Professor Lessig discussed the connection between special interest money and critical policy decisions, explaining why past attempts at reform have gone nowhere, and then presented a way forward that would unite citizens of all backgrounds—left, center, and right—who are fed up with lobbyists’ influence in Washington. This talk was co-sponsored by the Department of Film and Media Studies, the Dartmouth College Library, the Rockefeller Center for Public Policy, Dartmouth Computing Services and Research Computing, and ISTS.