Stanford Law School professor and Creative Commons founder, Lawrence Lessig gives a brief 10 minute lecture on whether or not Hillary Clinton can win the general election. I believe his arguments are pretty strong, but I’d love to hear what you think, so please say so in the comments below.

For those of you unfamiliar with Larry Lessig, some brief background from Wikipedia:

Lawrence Lessig (born June 3, 1961) is an American academic. He is a professor of law at Stanford Law School and founder of its Center for Internet and Society. He is founder and CEO of the Creative Commons and a board member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and of the Software Freedom Law Center, launched in February 2005. He is best known as a proponent of reduced legal restrictions on copyright, trademark and radio frequency spectrum, particularly in technology applications.

At the iCommons iSummit 07 Lessig announced that he will stop focusing his attention on copyright and related matters, and will instead work on corruption in the political system. This new work may be partially facilitated through his wiki — “Lessig Wiki” — which he has encouraged the public to use to document cases of corruption. In February 2008, a Facebook group formed by law professor John Palfrey encouraged him to run for Congress from California’s 12th congressional district, the seat vacated by the death of U.S. Representative Tom Lantos. Later that month, after forming an “exploratory project”, the decision was made not to run for the vacant seat.