Lawrence Lessig - John Palfrey

Lessig: on to iLaw X

September 7, 2026June 22, 2005 by John Palfrey

The guru of the cyberlaw business just said that Zittrain has rendered all of what came before useless. zTheory, as it’s now called, instantly coined, is everything that lies ahead — and which is the substantive underpinning of iLaw X (and so on). It is always fun to hear the famous four modes of regulation … Read more

Notoriety and the Second Superpower

September 13, 2026May 18, 2003 by John Palfrey

I’m puzzling over the New York Times article on google and Jim Moore’s Second Superpower paper in this morning’s Week in Review. Jim’s very short paper, with no footnotes and little more than an intriguing idea in its first-cut articulation, clearly grabbed the attention of the online world for a time. And google rewarded it with a high … Read more