shouting loudly

Lawrence Lessig, the man who’s done more than anyone to publicize the debate over copyright law in the digital era, is returning to Harvard Law School. In addition to being a professor, he’ll head the Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics.

The Harvard press release (first link) explains:

He will also launch a major five-year project examining what happens when public institutions depend on money from sources that may be affected by the work of those institutions — for example, medical research programs that receive funding from pharmaceutical companies whose drugs they review, or academics whose policy analyses are underwritten by special interest groups.

It’s a very exciting day for Harvard Law School–and a sad one for Stanford.