John Palfrey Featured on This Week in Law Podcast

Berkman Center Executive Director John Palfrey participated in the latest podcast installment of "This Week in Law," a production of the This Week in Tech TV netcasting empire (created by Leo Laporte). Along with Ernie Svenson, Cathy Kirkman and Chris Johnston, and ZDNet blogger Denise Howell, Palfrey discussed the Draft Lessig Facebook group which he created, the tech-savvyness of presidential candidates, Lazy Web v. Twitter, social graphs and more.

On the tech policy of political candidates, Palfrey comments:

"I think the involvement of Larry Lessig, Julius Genachowski , Beth Noveck and others, who have been close tech advisers to the Obama campaign, and to the extent to which Obama listens to Larry, makes him really hard to compete with - in terms of issues that I'm concerned about.

The global piece is a good one, I actually think that issues of international trade related to technology and services is going to be a huge issue, and I think understanding how US tech firms - like Google or MS or Yahoo - has to deal with these regimes in other parts of the world, I'd like to see a person who's conversant in this area"

Be sure to check out the Facebook group that John created (which is 2000+ strong!), as well as listen to the entire "This Week in Law" podcast at the Twit.tv site.