Larry is the  is the Roy L. Furman Professor of Law and Leadership at Harvard Law School, and director of the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University.  Lessig has been the clerk for both Judge Richard Posner and US Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. In November of 2011 Lessig announced that “Change Congress”, a project he founded to help volunteers address the problem of money in politics, would align with two other similar projects to create  "United Republic", an effort that challenges the high financed, special interest groups who influence politics.