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, May 18, 2022
News
If Students Can Hack This Course, They’re Ready for Information Age Lawyering
To one day tackle cybersecurity issues, students in a Yale Law School class learn how to hack.
Monday, May 16, 2022
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.
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.
Sunday, January 2, 2022
In The Press
What to Expect from the World in 2022 — A Commentary by Stephen L. Carter ’79
Bloomberg
Stephen L. Carter ’79 is the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law at Yale Law School.
Student Profile Videos
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.
If I had to identify the two things which taken in combination make Yale Law School such a special place, it would have to be the school’s longstanding commitment to intellectualism, and its equally long-lived and deep-seated commitment to public service.”
Anthony Kronman
Class of 1975, Sterling Professor of Law and Former Dean