Thursday, March 7, 2019
MFIA Boot Camp Trains Lawyers and Journalists on the Freedom of Information Act
The annual Freedom of Information Act boot camp was held by the Media Freedom and Information Access Clinic (MFIA) in February.
Tuesday, February 12, 2019
MFIA Clinic challenges Coast Guard on First Amendment rights
Yale Daily News
The Yale Daily News reports on the Yale Law School Media Freedom and Information Access Clinic (MFIA) and its complaint filed against the Department of Homeland Security and the Coast Guard to gather information on Coast Guard arrests and detainments on international waters.
Friday, November 2, 2018
Solomon Center and ISP Cohost Health Law and Technology Conference
On November 2, 2018, the Information Society Project (ISP) and the Solomon Center for Health Law and Policy at Yale Law School cohosted a cutting-edge interdisciplinary roundtable exploring “The Law and Policy of AI, Robotics, and Telemedicine in Health Care.”
Friday, October 19, 2018
Panelists Discuss Impact of Decision on Professional Speech and Reproductive Health
On October 15, 2018, the Solomon Center for Health Law and Policy, the Program for the Study of Reproductive Justice within the Information Society Project, the Global Health Justice Partnership, and a number of student groups co-hosted a panel discussion titled “Pregnancy, Power, and Professional Speech: NIFLA v. Becerra.”
Wednesday, August 22, 2018
WIII Releases Report on Intermediary Liability
Wikimedia/Yale Law School Initiative on Intermediaries and Information (WIII) at Yale Law School has released a report detailing the most critical issues necessary for understanding the role of information platforms, such as Facebook and Google, in law and society today.
Sunday, July 8, 2018
Young Women Face First Fight Over Abortion—A Commentary by Rachel Kogan ’19 and Erica Turret ’20
The Hartford Courant
Rachel Kogan ’19 and Erica Turret ’20 are students at Yale Law School.
Saturday, June 9, 2018
Trump’s targeting of a New York Times journalist, explained by experts
Vox
David Schulz ’78, Floyd Abrams Clinical Lecturer in Law and director of the MFIA clinic, and Michael Meltsner ’60 contributed to an article about the federal government’s seizure of a reporter’s phone records as part of a federal investigation into leaks of classified information.
Wednesday, May 30, 2018
DNA donors must demand stronger protection for genetic privacy—A Commentary by Mason Marks and Tiffany Li
STAT
Mason Marks and Tiffany Li are fellows at Yale Law School’s Information Society Project.
Thursday, April 26, 2018
Facebook Released Its Content Moderation Rules. Now What?—A Commentary by Kate Klonick
NYTimes.com
Kate Klonick is a Ph.D. in Law candidate and a Resident Fellow at the Information Society Project at Yale.
Tuesday, April 24, 2018
How to Make Facebook and Google Behave
Bloomberg View
Knight Professor of Constitutional Law and the First Amendment Jack Balkin’s idea of information fiduciaries is discussed in an editorial.