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Professor Scott Shapiro in his cybersecurity class, seated in front of a screen with a projected news story on ransomware.

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. 

Wednesday, May 18, 2022

 If Students Can Hack This Course, They’re Ready for Information Age Lawyering

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Wednesday, May 18, 2022

Settlement Confirms National Guard Members in State Status May Unionize

Monday, May 16, 2022

Start-up Within a Clinic: the Tech Accountability & Competition Project at MFIA

Saturday, May 14, 2022

Yale Law School’s Classes of 2020 and 2021 Celebrate Resilience

Monday, December 13, 2021

Project’s Brief Says Consumer Protection Law Applies to Facebook

Thursday, November 11, 2021

MFIA Moves to Dismiss Defamation Claims Against Online News Site

Friday, October 29, 2021

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The Media Freedom and Information Access (MFIA) clinic at Yale Law School petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn a ruling by the Puerto Rico Supreme Court.

MFIA Clinic Fights for Access to Recordings of Judicial Proceedings in Puerto Rico

Friday, October 15, 2021

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ISP Panels Tackle the Facebook Files and Democracy

Wednesday, June 30, 2021

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MFIA Clinic Advances New Project on Algorithmic Transparency

Monday, June 7, 2021

MFIA Clinic Receives $200,000 Contribution from Craig Newmark Philanthropies

Monday, March 8, 2021

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WIII White Paper Series Tackles Responses to Misinformation

Friday, March 5, 2021

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MFIA and ROLC Succeed in Procuring Overseas U.S. Troop Levels from Pentagon

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At Yale, I treasured being part of a close community of students, faculty, alumni, practitioners, and staff committed to understanding and critiquing the law. I draw on lessons I learned from that community every day in my career as an economic justice lawyer.”

Casey Pitts

Class of 2008, Partner, Altshuler Berzon LLP