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David A. Schulz ’78, a leading First Amendment lawyer who has defended the rights of journalists and news organizations for more than 30 years, has been named Clinical Lecturer in Law and Co-Director of the Media Freedom and Information Access Clinic (MFIA) at Yale Law School.

Yale Law School’s Information Society Project will hold a conference titled Innovation Law Beyond IP 2 on the role of the state in intellectual property law.

Valérie Bélair-Gagnon, executive director of the Information Society Project at Yale Law School, is the author of the book Social Media at BBC News: The Re-Making of Crisis Reporting (Routledge, 2015).

The Media Freedom and Information Access Clinic (MFIA) filed a lawsuit on behalf of Nicholas Merrill on December 11, 2014, asking the court to lift a decade-long gag order imposed on him by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

A panel focused on the pros and cons of net neutrality and the implications of new rules proposed by the Federal Communications Commission will take place at Yale Law School on November 18.

The Media Freedom and Information Access Clinic has filed a federal lawsuit challenging the refusal of the Arizona Department of Corrections to disclose information about the source and quality of drugs used to carry out lethal injection executions.

The Floyd Abrams Institute for Free Expression forms an association with the First Amendment Salon, a group that hosts a regular series on contemporary Supreme Court cases and other timely topics.

The Public Health in the Shadow of the First Amendment Conference will take place at Yale Law School on October 17 and 18.

Gabriel J. Michael is the 2014-2015 Thomson Reuters Fellow at Yale Law School. His research will bring a political science perspective to the study of global information regulation.

The Yale Information Society Project at Yale Law School announces the 2014-2015 Resident Fellows.