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Lawrence Lessig
Lessig is a law professor and activist. This site archives his work and career. That career began with a focus on constitutional and comparative constitutional law. Beginning in the mid-1990s, his focus shifted to the Internet and intellectual property. Since 2007, his focus has been on institutional corruption, and the fight to establish a representative democracy in America. That project was meant to take 10 years. It has taken a bit longer.
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[Skip to main content](https://lessig.org/#main) [LESSIG](https://lessig.org/) [𝕏](https://www.twitter.com/lessig) # Lawrence Lessig Lessig is a law professor and activist. This site archives his work and career. That career began with a focus on constitutional and comparative constitutional law. Beginning in the mid-1990s, his focus shifted to the Internet and intellectual property. Since 2007, his focus has been on institutional corruption, and the fight to establish a representative democracy in America. That project was meant to take 10 years. It has taken a bit longer. [](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) [This website custom designed by Slabmedia](https://slabmedia.com/)
Thin: Too few words of their own are in the HTML for a page of their kind. Render the rest on the server. No <main>: Wrap the page’s own content in <main>, so a reader knows where it starts and stops, and Clean can be measured.
The figures
54 pages, set against the 168,440 sites with figures.
- Readablehigher is better
- 93%50 of 54 pages
- All 168,440 sitesBetter than 32%
Pages whose own text is in the HTML the server sends, enough of it for their kind.
- Cleanhigher is better
- Nonemiddle page
- All 168,440 sitesNo place yetWith no figure, it has no place.
Of the words before script, the share that are the page and not menus, footer and forms. 54 pages are not measured, with no <main> or no words.
- Costshown, never scored
- 214,609tokens
- About 3,974 a page
To read every page once. A long page that answers well is not worse for it. Tokens are estimated at about 4 characters each.
How its pages spread on Clean
0 pages measured. Not measured: 53 with no <main> or no words and 1 shell with no words before script.
Against its rivals
The sites nearest it by what they do, with figures. Close means similar work, not better.
| Readinghigher is better | Costnot scored | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Site | Readable | Clean | Tokens a page |
| lessig.orgThis site, 54 pages | 93% | None | 3,974 |
| knightcolumbia.org97 pages | 100% | 75% | 2,974 |
| lpeproject.org100 pages | 100% | 53% | 476 |
| john.colagioia.net92 pages | 98% | 95% | 3,743 |
Fourth of 4 on Readable.
AI crawler access
What robots.txt says to each, as read on October 24, 2026. 8 of 8 may read the site.
| Crawler | robots.txt says | Used for | The line that decides |
|---|---|---|---|
| GPTBotOpenAI | Not named | Training models | Falls to User-agent: * |
| OAI-SearchBotOpenAI | Not named | ChatGPT search | Falls to User-agent: * |
| ChatGPT-UserOpenAI | Not named | A page a person asks about | Falls to User-agent: * |
| ClaudeBotAnthropic | Not named | Training models | Falls to User-agent: * |
| Claude-SearchBotAnthropic | Not named | Claude’s search | Falls to User-agent: * |
| PerplexityBotPerplexity | Not named | Perplexity search | Falls to User-agent: * |
| Google-ExtendedGoogle | Not named | Training Gemini | Falls to User-agent: * |
| bingbotMicrosoft | Not named | Bing and Copilot | Falls to User-agent: * |
Every AI crawler mttr checks may read it. Not named means the rules for every crawler apply.
Every page
Worst first. Each opens in Agent View at the top.
54 pages of 54 lose something. Pick a loss to see what to do about it.Open the action plan
| What an agent getshigher is better | Signals | Costnot scored | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Page | Words | Clean | Readable | Main heading | Tokens | What it loses |
| /product/intro | 50 | No <main> | No | None | 298 | Thin and 2 more |
| /product/tag:Democracy | 22 | No <main> | No | None | 109 | Thin and 2 more |
| / | 89 | No <main> | No | Yes | 195 | Thin and 1 more |
| /search | 15 | No words | No | None | 79 | Shell |
| /about | 203 | No <main> | Yes | None | 416 | No <main> and 1 more |
| /about/disclosure-v3-1 | 2,316 | No <main> | Yes | None | 3,597 | No <main> and 1 more |
| /about/disclosure-v4-0 | 2,191 | No <main> | Yes | None | 3,357 | No <main> and 1 more |
| /about/f/Bio | 203 | No <main> | Yes | None | 418 | No <main> and 1 more |
| /about/f/CV | 55 | No <main> | Yes | None | 174 | No <main> and 1 more |
| /about/f/Disclosure | 2,191 | No <main> | Yes | None | 3,357 | No <main> and 1 more |
| /about/f/Disclosure/10 | 2,319 | No <main> | Yes | None | 3,628 | No <main> and 1 more |
| /about/f/Disclosure/6 | 2,283 | No <main> | Yes | None | 3,578 | No <main> and 1 more |
| /about/f/Disclosure/7 | 2,308 | No <main> | Yes | None | 3,612 | No <main> and 1 more |
| /about/f/Disclosure/8 | 2,372 | No <main> | Yes | None | 3,740 | No <main> and 1 more |
| /about/f/Disclosure/9 | 2,372 | No <main> | Yes | None | 3,740 | No <main> and 1 more |
| /about/lawrence-lessig-bio | 205 | No <main> | Yes | None | 438 | No <main> and 1 more |
| /gallery/tag:Commons | 745 | No <main> | Yes | None | 1,564 | No <main> and 1 more |
| /gallery/tag:ConLaw | 382 | No <main> | Yes | None | 889 | No <main> and 1 more |
| /gallery/tag:Copyright | 141 | No <main> | Yes | None | 413 | No <main> and 1 more |
| /gallery/tag:Corruption | 1,057 | No <main> | Yes | None | 2,202 | No <main> and 1 more |
| /gallery/tag:Democracy | 3,798 | No <main> | Yes | None | 7,416 | No <main> and 1 more |
| /gallery/tag:Internet | 707 | No <main> | Yes | None | 1,519 | No <main> and 1 more |
| /gallery/tag:Politics | 2,144 | No <main> | Yes | None | 4,363 | No <main> and 1 more |
| /gallery/tag:Privacy | 233 | No <main> | Yes | None | 608 | No <main> and 1 more |
| /gigs | 11,331 | No <main> | Yes | None | 24,974 | No <main> and 1 more |
Show where it stands
A card, a badge and a line, each with the figures.
A badge for the site
<a href="https://mttr.si/agent-view/lessig.org"><img src="https://mttr.si/agent-view/lessig.org/badge.svg" alt="Agent View: 93% readable" height="20"></a>
The figures in one line
lessig.org in Agent View: 93% of pages readable, better than 32% of sites; Clean not measured; 214,609 tokens to read all 54 pages. mttr.si/agent-view/lessig.org
What to do next
Fix the pages, let an agent do it, and read the site again to see the figures move.
Fix what agents miss
- Wrap 53 pages in <main>Clean measured
- Give 25 pages a main headingClearer
- Render the rest of 3 pages on the serverReadable
Connect your agent
Claude Code, Codex or Cursor reads the site’s fixes over MCP, fixes a page in your code, has mttr read it again, and checks the fix landed.
https://mttr.si/mcpSet up an agent
Claim the site
Prove it is yours with a DNS record or a file. Your agent can then reach its reads and jobs, and set each change to wait for your approval.
Claim the siteDrawn from the HTML mttr fetched on its read of October 24, 2026, not a screenshot, and only from the 54 pages read. An assistant’s own reader may differ. Tokens are estimated at about 4 characters each. A site an agent reads well is not a site an assistant cites.