The following just arrived via email:

BOARD OF ADVISORS MEMBER LAWRENCE LESSIG: AMERICANS ELECT BRINGS NEEDED REFORM TO THE ELECTION SYSTEM

WASHINGTON, D.C., APRIL 2, 2012–Americans Elect is honored to have Lawrence Lessig, Director of the Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics at Harvard University, and the Roy L. Furman Professor of Law and Leadership at Harvard Law School, as a member of its Board of Advisors.

As a distinguished professor of law, Lessig is currently overseeing a five-year research project addressing institutional corruption in a number of contexts at the EJ Safra Lab. Americans Elect has benefited from his insight and knowledge about corruption in our political institutions, as we challenge the traditional primary system by creating an online nominating process and achieving ballot access in all 50 states.

“The Americans Elect’s effort to reform our political election system is a hard-fought and a worthy task. If we don’t reform our political process to end the gridlock in Washington it will be difficult to solve the serious problems our country faces today,” Lessig said.

Prior to returning to Harvard, Lessig was a Professor of Law at Stanford Law School (where he was founder of Stanford’s Center for Internet and Society), Harvard Law School (1997-2000), and the University of Chicago Law School. Lessig clerked for Judge Richard Posner on the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals and Justice Antonin Scalia on the United States Supreme Court.

For much of his academic career, Lessig has focused on law and technology, especially as it affects copyright.

Lessig also serves on the boards of Creative Commons, MAPLight, Brave New Film Foundation, Change Congress, The American Academy, Berlin, Freedom House and iCommons.org. He is on the advisory board of the Sunlight Foundation….