Mentorship Cut Short by Suicide
The Harvard law professor Lawrence Lessig discusses how Aaron Swartz's death shaped his own life's work.
Before he started working with Aaron Swartz, the Harvard law professor Lawrence Lessig built his professional life around internet law and copyright policy. In the early 2000s, Lessig was at the top of his academic field, then working at Stanford. As an undergraduate student, Swartz, who had met Lessig at a computer conference when he was just 14, convinced the professor to radically change his career path.
The two developed a mentorship and partnership that would lead them to take on the complex goals of making
