This Week in Law
Encyclopedia
This Week in Law is a podcast created as part of the This Week In Tech
family
of podcasts. The show is hosted by Denise Howell
, with frequent co-host Evan Brown. Past guests include Cory Doctorow
, Merlin Mann
, Nina Paley
, Ernie Svenson, John Palfrey
and Colette Vogele. The show focuses mainly on intellectual property
, privacy, and other technology-related legal matters.
This Week in Tech
This Week in Tech–casually referred to as TWiT, and formerly known as Revenge of the Screen Savers–is the weekly flagship podcast of the TWiT.tv network...
family
TWiT.tv (network)
The TWiT Netcast Network, which is the operating trade name of TWiT LLC, is a podcast network run by technology broadcaster and author Leo Laporte. The network began operation in April 2005 with the launch of This Week in Tech. Security Now was the second podcast on the network, debuting in...
of podcasts. The show is hosted by Denise Howell
Denise Howell
Denise McKinney Howell is a lawyer, blogger, and netcast host living in Newport Beach, California. Her blog, Bag and Baggage, started in 2001, was one of the first law-related blogs...
, with frequent co-host Evan Brown. Past guests include Cory Doctorow
Cory Doctorow
Cory Efram Doctorow is a Canadian-British blogger, journalist, and science fiction author who serves as co-editor of the blog Boing Boing. He is an activist in favour of liberalising copyright laws and a proponent of the Creative Commons organization, using some of their licences for his books...
, Merlin Mann
Merlin Mann
Merlin Dean Mann III writes the blog . He received a B.A. from New College of Florida, and he currently resides in San Francisco, California with his wife, Madeline Mann, and their daughter, .-Writing:...
, Nina Paley
Nina Paley
Nina Paley is an Americancartoonist, animator and free culture activist.She directed the animated feature film Sita Sings the Blues. She was the artist and often the writer of comic strips Nina's Adventures and Fluff, but most of her recent work has been in animation...
, Ernie Svenson, John Palfrey
John Palfrey
John Palfrey is a faculty co-director of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society, vice dean for library and information resources, and the Henry N. Ess III Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. He led a reorganization of the Harvard Law School Library in 2009...
and Colette Vogele. The show focuses mainly on intellectual property
Intellectual property
Intellectual property is a term referring to a number of distinct types of creations of the mind for which a set of exclusive rights are recognized—and the corresponding fields of law...
, privacy, and other technology-related legal matters.