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Lawrence Lessig

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Lester Lawrence Lessig III (born June 3, 1961) is an American legal scholar and political activist. He is the Roy L. Furman Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and the former director of the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University. He is the founder of Creative Commons and Equal Citizens. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Lawrence Lessig has received more than 2,141,538 page views. His biography is available in 47 different languages on Wikipedia. Lawrence Lessig is the 72nd most popular lawyer (down from 55th in 2019), the 6,538th most popular biography from United States (down from 5,435th in 2019) and the 15th most popular American Lawyer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 2.1M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 48.19

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 47

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.06

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.88

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Lawrence Lessigs by language

Over the past year Lawrence Lessig has had the most page views in the with 127,508 views, followed by Spanish (19,205), and French (8,200). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Spanish (73.88%), Belarusian (58.72%), and Icelandic (55.27%)

Among LAWYERS

Among lawyers, Lawrence Lessig ranks 72 out of 136. Before him are William Rehnquist, John Selden, Koen Lenaerts, Navi Pillay, Wendell Willkie, and Henry de Bracton. After him are Merrick Garland, Mercedes Comaposada, Michael Cohen, Abu Sadat Mohammad Sayem, Louise Arbour, and Clarence Darrow.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1961, Lawrence Lessig ranks 230. Before him are Alison Moyet, Bob Dadae, Bram Moolenaar, Aaron Sorkin, Samantha Bond, and Yuri Malenchenko. After him are Eric Chu, Brian Orser, José Luis Cuciuffo, Tom Byron, Imad Khamis, and Todd Haynes.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Lawrence Lessig ranks 6,538 out of 20,380. Before him are Gloria E. Anzaldúa (1942), John D. MacDonald (1916), Daniel Pipes (1949), Trish Van Devere (1941), Dan Duryea (1907), and Edward Platt (1916). After him are Brad Whitford (1952), John Berry (1917), Charlene Tilton (1958), Steve Swallow (1940), Albina Osipowich (1911), and Dolph Schayes (1928).

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Among LAWYERS In United States

Among lawyers born in United States, Lawrence Lessig ranks 15. Before him are Louis Brandeis (1856), Roy Cohn (1927), Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841), James B. Donovan (1916), William Rehnquist (1924), and Wendell Willkie (1892). After him are Merrick Garland (1952), Michael Cohen (1966), Clarence Darrow (1857), Ken Starr (1946), Doug Emhoff (1964), and G. Gordon Liddy (1930).

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