Good Law | Bad Law

How do we use technology to create change? How do you empower a movement?   Aaron Freiwald, Managing Partner of Freiwald Law and host of the weekly podcast, Good Law | Bad Law, is joined by Law Professor Raymond Brescia, of Albany Law School, to discuss social movements, social change, and the impact of technology. The Hon. Harold R. Tyler Chair in Law and Technology at Albany, Ray is a student of today’s topic, having long been interested in the intersection between technology and community organizing.   In his most recent book, The Future of Change: How Technology Shapes Social Revolutions, Ray identifies a series of “social innovation moments” in American history. Today, Aaron and Ray explore the notions of “The Future of Change” and how these ideas relate to today’s technology, social media platforms, and cultural movements. In both his book and today’s episode, Ray explains that, almost without fail, developments in how we communicate shape social movements, just as those movements change the very te