How We Are Involved
Information Society Project
Information Society Project (ISP) is an intellectual center addressing the implications of the Internet and new information technologies for law and society, guided by the values of democracy, development, and civil liberties. The ISP's work includes copyright, media law and policy, transparency, and privacy.
MFIA Clinic
The Media Freedom and Information Access Clinic (MFIA), part of ISP's Abrams Institute for Freedom of Expression, is a law school clinic dedicated to increasing government transparency, defending the essential work of news gatherers, and protecting freedom of expression through impact litigation, direct legal services, and policy work.
MSL Degree Program
The Law School also offers the Degree of Master of Studies in Law (M.S.L.) for journalists seeking an intensive immersion in legal thinking so that they are better able to educate their audiences upon their return to journalism.
Wednesday, August 03, 2022
News
Can We Fix What’s Wrong with Social Media?
A look at how Yale Law School alumni, faculty, and students are grappling with some of the most difficult questions in the online environment.
Monday, May 16, 2022
Wednesday, May 25, 2022
The Department of State in Washington, D.C. The Media Freedom and Information Access Clinic is challenging the department's slow responses to Freedom of Information Act requests.
Wednesday, May 18, 2022
Charles F. Southmayd Professor of Law Scott J. Shapiro ’90 talks to his cybersecurity class, which gives students the technological background to address issues like digital policy and national security. “It is extraordinarily difficult for law students and for legal scholars such as myself to talk intelligently about regulating an activity that we can’t even imagine,” he said.
Monday, May 16, 2022
Among the work of the Tech Accountability & Competition is to address content moderation and hate speech on social media, social media addiction among children and teenagers, and facial recognition and police surveillance.
Tuesday, May 31, 2022
In The Press
Court Orders State Police To Reveal More Details About Misconduct by Troopers
Central Maine
Ruling in a case that the Media Freedom and Information Access Clinic helped bring to court, a judge has ordered the Maine State Police to provide the state’s two biggest newspapers with previously concealed parts of police disciplinary records.
Monday, May 9, 2022
In The Press
Reversing Roe in the Digital Age
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Information Society Project Executive Director Nikolas Guggenberger discusses the potential impact of overturning Roe v. Wade on online privacy issues.
Thursday, February 17, 2022
In The Press
Spotify Must Be More Transparent About its Rules of the Road — A Commentary by Tracey Meares et al.
Tech Crunch
Tracey Meares is the Walton Hale Hamilton Professor of Law and Founding Director of The Justice Collaboratory at Yale Law School.
Sunday, February 13, 2022
In The Press
Sarah Palin May Find That Libel Doesn’t Mean What It Used To — A Commentary by Stephen L. Carter ’79
Bloomberg
Stephen L. Carter ’79 is the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law at Yale Law School.
Tuesday, January 25, 2022
In The Press
Governments — Including Connecticut’s — Continue Using Algorithms in the Dark
Connecticut Mirror
A report released by the Media Freedom and Information Access Clinic is cited in an article about how government agencies are using algorithms to make policy decisions.
Tuesday, January 18, 2022
In The Press
Fighting Racial Bias with an Unlikely Weapon: Footnotes
The Washington Post
Head of Instruction and Lecturer in Legal Research Julie Graves Krishnaswami is quoted about footnotes in The Bluebook.
Student Profile Videos
Edgardo Carlo L. Vistan II
A student perspective on the graduate studies program and tech law at Yale Law School.
Andrew Burt
Andrew Burt, Chief Privacy Officer & Legal Engineer at Immuta, describes his work in the government and private sectors. Part of the Many Paths Initiative.
At Yale Law School, we think hard about law, with freedom to challenge basic assumptions embedded within our legal institutions and to construct new frameworks.”
Monica Bell
Class of 2009, Associate Professor of Law and Associate Professor of Sociology