Lawrence Lessig

9.9k total citations · 3 hit papers
81 papers, 4.9k citations indexed

About

Lawrence Lessig is a scholar working on Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science and Law. According to data from OpenAlex, Lawrence Lessig has authored 81 papers receiving a total of 4.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 13 papers in Political Science and International Relations, 9 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 9 papers in Law. Recurrent topics in Lawrence Lessig's work include Copyright and Intellectual Property (6 papers), Cybersecurity and Cyber Warfare Studies (6 papers) and Legal and Constitutional Studies (5 papers). Lawrence Lessig is often cited by papers focused on Copyright and Intellectual Property (6 papers), Cybersecurity and Cyber Warfare Studies (6 papers) and Legal and Constitutional Studies (5 papers). Lawrence Lessig collaborates with scholars based in United States, Latvia and France. Lawrence Lessig's co-authors include William M. Landes, Michael E. Solimine, Lorrie Faith Cranor, Cass R. Sunstein, Richard Stallman, Jonathan Zittrain, Ching‐Yi Liu, Paul Resnick, Charles Fried and Dan M. Kahan and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Proceedings of the IEEE and The Journal of Legal Studies.

In The Last Decade

Lawrence Lessig

72 papers receiving 3.9k citations

Hit Papers

Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace 1999 2026 2008 2017 1999 2002 2008 500 1000 1.5k

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Lawrence Lessig United States 23 1.9k 835 720 699 687 81 4.9k
Shoshana Zuboff United States 13 2.9k 1.5× 675 0.8× 856 1.2× 334 0.5× 744 1.1× 22 6.9k
José van Dijck Netherlands 36 4.9k 2.5× 803 1.0× 2.9k 4.0× 369 0.5× 827 1.2× 91 9.3k
Thomas Poell Netherlands 27 3.3k 1.7× 684 0.8× 2.2k 3.0× 235 0.3× 469 0.7× 72 5.9k
Frank Pasquale United States 18 1.3k 0.7× 346 0.4× 288 0.4× 255 0.4× 528 0.8× 87 3.4k
Michael C. Herron United States 22 1.1k 0.6× 1.4k 1.7× 721 1.0× 869 1.2× 136 0.2× 66 6.3k
Yochai Roberts Benkler United States 32 4.7k 2.4× 835 1.0× 3.0k 4.1× 398 0.6× 1.1k 1.6× 88 8.6k
Helen Nissenbaum United States 34 3.5k 1.8× 527 0.6× 749 1.0× 118 0.2× 1.2k 1.8× 101 6.3k
Tarleton Gillespie United States 23 2.0k 1.0× 319 0.4× 1.4k 2.0× 120 0.2× 385 0.6× 51 3.8k
Charles Oppenheim United Kingdom 38 610 0.3× 356 0.4× 354 0.5× 270 0.4× 1.7k 2.5× 266 5.1k
Nick Couldry United Kingdom 41 3.9k 2.0× 820 1.0× 3.3k 4.6× 317 0.5× 469 0.7× 144 7.9k

Countries citing papers authored by Lawrence Lessig

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Fields of papers citing papers by Lawrence Lessig

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Lawrence Lessig. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Lawrence Lessig. The network helps show where Lawrence Lessig may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Lawrence Lessig

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Lawrence Lessig. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Lawrence Lessig based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Lawrence Lessig. Lawrence Lessig is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
1.
Lessig, Lawrence. (2015). Corrupt and Unequal, Both. Fordham law review. 84(2). 445. 2 indexed citations
2.
Lessig, Lawrence. (2012). A Reply to Professor Hasen. Harvard Law Review. 3 indexed citations
3.
Lessig, Lawrence. (2010). How to Get Our Democracy Back. Digital Access to Scholarship at Harvard (DASH) (Harvard University). 3 indexed citations
4.
Lessig, Lawrence. (2009). What Everybody Knows and What Too Few Accept. Harvard Law Review. 123(1). 104–119. 2 indexed citations
5.
Lessig, Lawrence, et al.. (2008). Federalist Society’s Intellectual Property Practice Group and its Stanford Law School present a debate on Open Source and Intellectual Property Rights. 3(1). 3. 1 indexed citations
6.
Lessig, Lawrence. (2008). Free Culture: The Nature and Future of Creativity. 235 indexed citations
7.
Lessig, Lawrence. (2007). In Support of Network Neutrality. The Knowledge Bank (The Ohio State University). 3 indexed citations
8.
Lessig, Lawrence. (2007). Make Way for Copyright Chaos. 4 indexed citations
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Lessig, Lawrence. (2006). Re-crafting a Public Domain. Digital Access to Scholarship at Harvard (DASH) (Harvard University). 18(3). 4. 17 indexed citations
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Lessig, Lawrence. (2005). L’Avenir des idées. Presses universitaires de Lyon eBooks. 13 indexed citations
11.
Lessig, Lawrence. (2004). Coase's First Question. SSRN Electronic Journal. 1 indexed citations
12.
Lessig, Lawrence. (2003). Law Regulating Code Regulating Law. Loyola University of Chicago law journal. 35(1). 1. 16 indexed citations
13.
Lessig, Lawrence. (2000). The Death of Cyberspace. Washington and Lee law review. 57(2). 337.
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Lessig, Lawrence. (1999). The Limits in Open Code: Regulatory Standards and the Future of the Net. Digital Access to Scholarship at Harvard (DASH) (Harvard University). 13 indexed citations
15.
Lessig, Lawrence. (1999). Open Code and Open Societies: Values of Internet Governance. Chicago-Kent law review. 74(3). 1405. 13 indexed citations
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Lessig, Lawrence. (1997). Tyranny in the Infrastructure. SSRN Electronic Journal. 3 indexed citations
17.
Lessig, Lawrence. (1997). The Constitution of Code: Limitations on Choice-Based Critiques of Cyberspace Regulation. 5(2). 181–192. 11 indexed citations
18.
Lessig, Lawrence. (1997). Fidelity and Constraint. Fordham law review. 65(4). 1365. 5 indexed citations
19.
Lessig, Lawrence. (1993). Fidelity in Translation. Texas law review. 71. 1165. 10 indexed citations
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Lessig, Lawrence. (1993). Readings by Our Unitary Executive. eYLS (Yale Law School). 15. 175. 1 indexed citations

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