Tomorrow! Join us for “Social Media Surveillance and the First Amendment” with Yale MFIA Clinic students Tess Solomon (‘27), Anthony Anthony Cosentino (‘26), Raymond Perez (‘26), @ Nick Jones (‘27). 📅 Thurs, Nov 13 | 🕛 12–1:30 PM | 📍 Baker Hall 405 Zoom available for ISP fellows

Amazing opportunities to work with us: 1️⃣ Clinical Fellowship July 2026– Lead impact litigation, mentor students, and advance press freedom. 2️⃣ Summer Internship 2026 – Draft briefs, file FOIAs, and research transparency & free speech issues. More info law.yale.edu/mfia/opportu...

MFIA Clinic’s reunion was a blast! 🎉 Celebrating 15 years of media law, transparency, and community — with Mafiosi from across the years coming together in New Haven to reflect on our past and shape the future. #MFIA15

We wrapped up #AAC2025 with our final panel: Success Stories, moderated by @heidikitrosser.bsky.social. Thank you to the @knightcolumbia.org foundation for their generous support and to the Abrams Institute and MFIA Clinic at @yalelawschool-yls.bsky.social for hosting this year’s conference.

#AAC2025 panel: "Movement Lawyering in an Autocracy" discusses how clinics and public-interest groups confront political pressure, funding risks, and new advocacy demands in an increasingly hostile environment for the rule of law.

Yesterday at #AAC2025, the panel “Safeguarding a Free Press” brought together RonNell Andersen-Jones, Bill Grueskin, Summer Lopez, Alexandra Perloff-Giles & Katie Townsend to discuss press intimidation, government retaliation, and protecting newsgathering rights.

Law school clinics are facing growing political pressure. How does this impact academic freedom and ethics? Jennifer Safstrom, Felicia Branch, Scott Cummings, Miriam Gohara, Gautam Hans, and Sarah Ludington discuss how to protect clinics and their students.

The Trump admin is centralizing federal & state data to drive surveillance (especially for immigration) raising red flags about presidential power & AI cronyism. @nabiha.bsky.social @bridgetfahey.bsky.social, @makenakelly.bsky.social @mariotrujillo.bsky.social Jennifer Urban, Nikhel Sus #AAC2025

Consolidating Power in the Executive Branch - a panel on how the Trump admin’s ‘unitary executive’ theory reshaped checks & balances. With John Langford, Elizabeth Goitein, @jameeljaffer.bsky.social, Jodie Morse, @charliesavage.bsky.social & @jedshug.bsky.social. #AAC2025

Fascinating conversation on safeguarding institutions of accountability with Anna Gomez (FCC), Genevieve Lakier (U. Chicago), Michael S. Schmidt (NYT), Nicholas Turner (Vera Institute), and Donald Verrilli (Munger, Tolles & Olsen).

#AAC2025 is off to a powerful start! Our opening panel features former Judge Michael Luttig and Professor Linda Greenhouse in a conversation on the state of American democracy, the threats it faces, and the steps needed to protect it.

This week, our Clinic team representing Jersey City Times in Morrill v. Fulop argued in federal court in Newark. 2L Brina Harden delivered the oral argument and did a fantastic job. Plaintiffs allege they were barred from city press access after a critical story.

The MFIA Clinic at Yale Law School is now accepting applications for its Clinical Fellowship starting July 1, 2026. Help defend press freedom, free speech, and government transparency. 🗓 Review begins Nov 15, 2025. 🔗 law.yale.edu/mfia/news/op...

Great to work with @mfia-clinic.bsky.social and @muslimadvocates.bsky.social on this! And of course, great admiration for the courage of the plaintiffs @uaw.org @cwaunion.bsky.social @aft.org

The MFIA Clinic and co-counsel filed a complaint on behalf of a teenager against ClothOff, a company that lets users deploy AI to create nonconsensual nude images of real children and adults. Read more here: www.wsj.com/tech/ai/teen....

MFIA Director David Schulz joined PBS NewsHour to discuss the Pentagon’s new press rules and their implications for journalists’ access and reporting. www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXWr...

"The Espionage Act’s reach is criminal, its language capacious, and its chilling effect immediate," write Brian O'Neill and David Schulz. They explain what it could mean for whistleblowers, reporters, and democracy if the Trump admin tries to use it. www.justsecurity.org/122491/weapo...

MFIA team prepares for hearing at the Freedom of information commission in Hartford this afternoon. Larry Jia, Kelsey Griffin, Jessica Linadison Hamburg (client), Stacy Livingston and Jeanica Genius.

David Bralow joined MFIA this year as a visiting lecturer. We’re honored to have him on our team. Read more about his incredible work here: law.yale.edu/yls-today/ne...

Tomorrow!

We submitted a comment to the FTC opposing its Omnicom–IPG consent order, saying it violates the First Amendment by banning ad boycotts over political views. We argue the FTC is using merger review to police protected speech and chill industry expression. www.regulations.gov/comment/FTC-...

Word is out! Thanks to @rickhasen.bsky.social for highlighting our new white paper.

Our new white paper outlines how attorneys can use the Ku Klux Klan Act to bring civil claims against election disinformation, including lies about how to vote and impersonation of candidates. Read it here: law.yale.edu/yls-today/ne...

The Clinic filed this amicus brief on behalf of a distinguished group of First Amendment scholars, supporting Mark Zaid’s challenge to the retaliatory and viewpoint-based rescission of his security clearance.

Victory for academic freedom & LGBTQ visibility: A federal court just ordered the gov’t to repost articles by Harvard doctors removed for referencing the existence of trans patients. MFIA, ACLU & allies argued the takedown was unconstitutional censorship. law.yale.edu/yls-today/ne...