MFIA Clinic to Celebrate 15th Anniversary
The Media Freedom and Information Access (MFIA) clinic was created in 2010 by four Yale Law School students concerned about the demise of the newspaper industry and what it meant for investigative journalism and the future of our democracy.
Over the past 15 years, the clinic has grown from a four-person operation into a substantial provider of legal services for journalists, academics, and other researchers. It has won precedent-setting FOIA victories, expanded the scope of the First Amendment access right, and pursued a vigorous defense of newsgathering rights and First Amendment freedoms generally.
Please come join us in New Haven on Oct. 31 and Nov. 1 to celebrate 15 years of fighting for transparency, accountability, and newsgathering rights. It will be a special time to reconnect with fellow “mafiosi” and to celebrate the work of the clinic.
The anniversary celebration will follow MFIA’s Access and Accountability Conference, an annual conference that brings together a unique mix of lawyers, journalists, academics, and law school clinicians to address current issues concerning government transparency and democratic accountability. This year’s conference will be focused on the crisis facing the basic architecture of accountability in the United States. It promises to be an especially rich and timely discussion you won’t want to miss. Additional details will be announced soon.
