Access & Accountability Conference
The Media Freedom and Information Access Clinic and the Abrams Institute for Freedom of Expression annually bring together transparency advocates of all stripes to identify current impediments to government openness and to develop strategies for addressing them. Law school clinicians from around the country, together with investigative journalists, academics, practicing lawyers, and law students, explore some of the most urgent transparency issues in the areas of law enforcement, national security and surveillance, government data and personal privacy, and newsgathering rights.
Abrams Conversations: What Does Free Speech Mean on Campus?
The topic of freedom of speech on campus is hardly a new one but the desirability of addressing it in a serious and sophisticated manner may never have been greater than at this time. To do so, we are pleased to have two scholars of particular distinction in this area of law and social policy who will discuss the topic with Floyd Abrams.
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Abrams Institute Conversations: Fifty Years after the Pentagon Papers: It's Impact and It's Future
The Pentagon Papers Case began exactly fifty years ago to the day from this luncheon exchange about its impact, then and now. The case resulted in one of the most significant press victories in our history, yet one that raised questions about its scope and application from the day it was decided. The unanswered questions have only multiplied as the Internet revolutionized how the news is disseminated.
ABRAMS INSTITUTE CONVERSATIONS: The Internet, Elections and the First Amendment
As speech on the Internet increasingly dominates public discourse, the decision-making within Facebook, Google and the like about what to carry and what not is of ever-increasing import.
THE CRISIS OF THE PRESS AND DEMOCRACY: SAVING THE PRESS FUNCTION; Yale Law School Abrams Institute for Free Expression and Information Society Project
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March 19, 2021 12:00 p.m. to 4:45 p.m. (EST) and March 20, 2021 12:00 p.m. to 4:45 p.m. (EST)
12:00 noon -1:30pm The Press that Citizens Need
THE CRISIS OF THE PRESS AND DEMOCRACY: SAVING THE PRESS FUNCTION; Yale Law School Abrams Institute for Free Expression and Information Society Project
Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-crisis-of-the-press-and-democracy-saving-the-press-function-tickets-137463273351
March 19, 2021 12:00 p.m. to 4:45 p.m. (EST) and March 20, 2021 12:00 p.m. to 4:45 p.m. (EST)
12:00 noon -1:30pm The Press that Citizens Need
INCITEMENT AND THE FIRST AMENDMENT; Abrams Institute Conversations
The law of incitement has made it to the headlines in the wake of the recent Capitol riot. Whether President Trump committed incitement is now hotly debated in partisan terms, but a question that was simmering even before January 6th is whether Brandenburg and the law of incitement are out of step with the reality of social media communications. Is a different view of incitement necessary today, one that acknowledges the realities of online recruitment, motivation, organization and direction? Would the Supreme Court construe the First Amendment to tolerate an expanded
Freedom of Expression Scholar's Conference (FESC 8)
At FESC, scholars and practitioners discuss works-in-progress on the freedoms of speech, expression, press, association, petition, and assembly, as well as on related issues of knowledge and information policy.
AAC 2020: What the Current Moment has Taught about Transparency
Friday, October 23
8:45 Welcome by Floyd Abrams: What the Current Moment Has Taught About Transparency
9:00 FOIA Successes and Failures
How has our existing regime of FOI laws served us in the multiple current crises, what reforms are needed, and how can they be brought about?
Moderator: Charles Crain (MFIA)
Panelists:
The Role of a Free Press in a Time of Turmoil; A Virtual “Brown Bag Lunch” Discussion
The Abrams Institute for Freedom of Expression and the Media Freedom & Information Access Clinic at Yale Law School invite you, your journalist colleagues and others from your organization to the next in their series of occasional lunchtime discussions of current issues facing journalists and their lawyers.