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An International Humanitarian Law Workshop was held at Yale Law School on Friday, September 30, 2016 and Saturday, October 1, 2016. The two-day event was sponsored by The Center for Global Legal Challenges at Yale Law School and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).

Georgetown University Professor of Law Laura Donohue recently gave a talk on the “Fourth Amendment in a Digital World” at Yale Law School.

The Center for Global Legal Challenges and the Information Society Project will co-host a conference on “Hacking the Election”

The Abrams Institute for Freedom of Expression at Yale Law School submitted a letter to the Chairman of the House Committee on Science, Space & Technology, Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX), sharply criticizing subpoenas issued to nine science advocacy organizations.

The Information Society Project (ISP) at Yale Law School has announced the appointment of Rebecca Crootof ’11 JD, ’16 PhD as its new executive director.

A joint report exploring the ways in which legal and political frameworks can help or hinder new forms of developing journalism was published on March 23, 2016.

The Media and Freedom Information Access Clinic secured a victory in a Missouri Circuit Court on March 21, 2016 when a judge ruled that the Missouri Department of Corrections (DOC) was required under state law to disclose the names of the pharmacies from which it purchases the drugs used to execute inmates on death row.

The Abrams Institute for Freedom of Expression and the Information Society Project at Yale Law School will hold the fourth annual Freedom of Expression Scholars Conference on April 30-May 1, 2016. The conference, which will take place at Yale Law School, brings together academics, practitioners, and others to discuss their scholarly works-in-progress concerning freedom of speech, expression, press, association, petition, assembly, and related issues of knowledge and information policy. Anyone interested in submitting a paper should respond by February 26, 2016. The conference has become the...

The Media Freedom and Information Access Clinic was recognized as a finalist for the second annual Columbia University Global Freedom of Expression Prize in the Excellence in Legal Service category for its representation of the plaintiff in Merrill v. Holder. The Merrill case was the first time anyone had successfully defeated a PATRIOT Act gag order.

At an event titled “What Obergefell v. Hodges Should Have Said,” preeminent law scholars will rewrite the Supreme Court landmark opinion upholding the right of same-sex couples to marry. The conference will take place on April 15, 2016, at 1:15 p.m. in Room 127.