John Palfrey


This blawg covers the activities of Harvard University Law School's Berkman Center for Internet & Society as well as legal technology and current events related to Internet law, trademark and copyright law and media and communications law.

Author: John Palfrey is a clinical professor of law at Harvard Law School and executive director of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society.

Blawg Related Categories: Intellectual Property Law • Copyright Law • Trademark Law • Internet Law • Law Practice Management • Legal Technology • Media & Communications Law • Harvard University • Law Professor

Recent Posts from John Palfrey


  • Harvard Library Report

    Over the past nine months or so, a group of us have worked on a Harvard-wide Task Force to consider our library systems.  The report is being issued today by Harvard’s Provost, Steven E. Hyman,…

  • Dawn Nunziato’s Virtual Freedom: Net Neutrality and Free Speech in the Internet Age

    Dawn Nunziato, a law prof at George Washington University Law School, has written a helpful and interesting new book, entitled Virtual Freedom: Net Neutrality and Free Speech in the Internet Age. Her focus in “Virtual…

  • Love Your Library Fest Today, 2 – 5 p.m. at HLSL

    The Harvard Law School Library invites students to come visit today during this year’s “Love Your Library Fest.”  In addition to everything you’ll learn about the HLS Library, come over for free movie tickets and…

  • Managing Partners Weigh in on Impact of the Global Financial Crisis (Live-Blog)

    At a workshop at Oxford University, HLS Prof. David Wilkins has convened the managing partners of some of the world’s leading law firms.  Ted Burke of Freshfields, Simon Davies of Linklaters, Wim Dejonghe of Allen…

  • Graduate Seminar on Research Methods on Internet & Society

    Amid all the noise of the start of fall semester, Eszter Hargittai and I are launching a new experiment: a course taught jointly (and separately) at Northwestern University and at Harvard University on research methods…

  • New Harvard Law School Library Organizational Design

    Over the past year, I’ve worked with my colleagues at the Harvard Law School Library, our Library Committee of faculty members, and many others to develop a new organizational design for the HLSL.  It goes…

  • Google Books Search Settlement Workshop

    Join us in-person or online for the GBS Settlement Workshop at the Berkman Center today.  There’s a webcast: webcast, Twitter stream (#gbsworkshop09), and IRC chat, with vibrant conversations going on.  Lessig talking now, with an…

  • Skype-ing into Summercore

    This summer I’ve been occasionally doing video/audio Skype sessions with Steve Bergen’s Summercore program for teachers. It’s the first time with “distance ed” that I’ve felt the process is natural. The sessions are about a…

  • Google Books Settlement: Two Events

    Tonight, the Boston Public Library is hosting an event on the GBS: July 21 at 6:00 p.m. at the BPL, moderated by Maura Marx of the Open Knowledge Commons. On July 31, we at the…

  • Hiring Empiricists at HLS Library

    One of the new efforts underway at the Harvard Law School Library is providing support for the growing number of faculty who perform empirical research.  It’s something that a few other libraries have begun to…