Lawrence Lessig, Intellectual-Property Scholar, to Return to Harvard

Lawrence Lessig, a renowned legal scholar best known for arguing for reduced legal restrictions on copyright, will leave Stanford Law School and return to Harvard Law School. Mr. Lessig, a founding board member of the Creative Commons, previously taught at Harvard before going to Stanford, in 2000.

In announcing the move on Friday, Elena Kagan, dean of Harvard Law, called Mr. Lessig “one of the most brilliant and important legal scholars of our time.” She added: “His work has recast the very terms of discussion and debate in multiple areas of law, ranging from intellectual property to constitutional theory.”

Earlier this year, he publicly considered running for Congress, but decided challenging a popular former state senator would be too difficult.