Public service by americas Cable Television companies and is brought to you today by your cable or satellite provider. Host Georgetown University law professor paul ohm, is law keeping up with technology . Guest its trying its darnedest, but like with a lot of us, its really hard to keep up with technology. And is so, you know, we have different areas of the law, constitutional law, statutory law, but at the end of the day, the shifts, the changes, the different ways we communicate, you know, the same things that befuddle just your average american has begun to also confuse lawyers and the legal system and judges in kind of disruptive and profound ways. Host is it because technology is changing so quickly, or is it because law is not changing guest well, its interesting, its a little of both. I mean, law is an ancient tradition, right . Its an ancient set of disciplines. But at the same time, law has also managed to keep up with kind of seismic or tectonic shifts in all sorts of things
Populated by i think without exception just amazing people, sophisticated people. And so of long as they continue on that path they will be fine. They will be kind of keeping a steady state. The problem with agencies is always resources. In a Perfect World we would double or triple the budgets we give for these purposes. And i dont think that is likely to happen with either of those two agencies, particularly within the new administration what have we had a period like this before where technology or industry of some type that of some type that we had of law . Guest sure. The rise of antitrust law was a direct result of the robber barons and the railroads. And antitrust law got anything to begin with the regulation of the airlines. The history of law in many senses is the history of trying to respond to the last great technological shift. One thing i talk to my students a lot about though is the internet and digital technology, its faster. I think everyone would agree with that but the
Populated by i think without exception just amazing people, sophisticated people. And so of long as they continue on that path they will be fine. They will be kind of keeping a steady state. The problem with agencies is always resources. In a Perfect World we would double or triple the budgets we give for these purposes. And i dont think that is likely to happen with either of those two agencies, particularly within the new administration what have we had a period like this before where technology or industry of some type that of some type that we had of law . Guest sure. The rise of antitrust law was a direct result of the robber barons and the railroads. And antitrust law got anything to begin with the regulation of the airlines. The history of law in many senses is the history of trying to respond to the last great technological shift. One thing i talk to my students a lot about though is the internet and digital technology, its faster. I think everyone would agree with that but the
Populated by i think without exception just amazing people, sophisticated people. And so of long as they continue on that path they will be fine. They will be kind of keeping a steady state. The problem with agencies is always resources. In a Perfect World we would double or triple the budgets we give for these purposes. And i dont think that is likely to happen with either of those two agencies, particularly within the new administration what have we had a period like this before where technology or industry of some type that of some type that we had of law . Guest sure. The rise of antitrust law was a direct result of the robber barons and the railroads. And antitrust law got anything to begin with the regulation of the airlines. The history of law in many senses is the history of trying to respond to the last great technological shift. One thing i talk to my students a lot about though is the internet and digital technology, its faster. I think everyone would agree with that but the
Populated by i think without exception just amazing people, sophisticated people. And so of long as they continue on that path they will be fine. They will be kind of keeping a steady state. The problem with agencies is always resources. In a Perfect World we would double or triple the budgets we give for these purposes. And i dont think that is likely to happen with either of those two agencies, particularly within the new administration what have we had a period like this before where technology or industry of some type that of some type that we had of law . Guest sure. The rise of antitrust law was a direct result of the robber barons and the railroads. And antitrust law got anything to begin with the regulation of the airlines. The history of law in many senses is the history of trying to respond to the last great technological shift. One thing i talk to my students a lot about though is the internet and digital technology, its faster. I think everyone would agree with that but the