Information Society Project
| Formation | 1997[1] |
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| Type | Technology research center |
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| Website | isp.yale.edu |
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The Information Society Project (ISP) at Yale Law School is an intellectual center studying the implications of the Internet and new information technologies for law and society. The ISP was founded in 1997 by Jack Balkin, Knight Professor of Constitutional Law and the First Amendment at Yale Law School.
The Yale ISP faculty members, postdoctoral fellows, and law school student fellows engage in research, education, and social activism geared toward promoting global access to knowledge, advocating democratic values in the information society, and protecting and expanding civil liberties in the Information Age. The research center has contributed to the development of the Access to Knowledge social movement, which aims to build an intellectual framework that will protect access to knowledge both as the basis for sustainable human development and to safeguard human rights. ISP-led courses, projects, a weekly speaker series, and workshops integrate Yale law students into the exploration of new problems in collaboration with departments across the Yale campus. The ISP also provides advice and education to policy makers, business leaders, nonprofit organizations, and the global legal community. International conferences organized by the ISP have addressed topics like Access to Knowledge, Cybercrime, Library 2.0 Symposium, Open ICT Standards, Globalization and Information Flow, and Search Engine Law.
Valerie Belair-Gagnon is the Executive Director of the ISP. Faculty Fellows have included: Yochai Benkler, Professor of Law; Ian Ayres, William K. Townsend Professor of Law; Robert Post (law professor), David, Boies Professor of Law; Carol Rose, Gordon Bradford Tweedy, Professor of Law and Organization; and Henry Smith, Professor of Law. Fellows have included: Laura DeNardis, Beth Simone Noveck, Mike Godwin, Wendy Seltzer, Peter Suber, and Michael Zimmer.
History and mission
The ISP has grown considerably since its founding by Yale Law Professor Jack Balkin in 1997. The ISP celebrated its 15th year in 2012. It now hosts a number of initiatives, including the Abrams Institute for Freedom of Expression, the Knight Law and Media Program, and the Thomson Reuters Initiative on Law and Technology. The center is housed at the fourth floor of 40 Ashmun Street in New Haven, where fellows from around the globe come to pursue research and produce significant scholarship.
Members of the ISP teach, write books, scientific articles, blog. The Yale ISP faculty and fellows have also conducted major public policy reviews of pressing issues. The ISP host the Abrams Institute for the Freedom of Expression and the Media Freedom and Information Access Clinic working on government transparency, access rights, national security, as well as privacy and free speech.
Projects and initiatives
The Institute's mission is both practical and scholarly. It includes a clinic for Yale Law students to engage in litigation, draft model legislation, and advise lawmakers and policy makers on issues of media freedom and informational access. It promotes scholarship and law reform on emerging questions concerning both traditional and new media. The Institute also holds scholarly conferences and events at Yale on First Amendment issues and on related issues of access to information, Internet and media law, telecommunications, privacy, and intellectual property. The Abrams Institute fellow for 2014-2015 is Jonathan Manes.
The Abrams Institute is a Partnering Organization in Free Speech Week, a yearly non-partisan week-long celebration of Freedom of Speech and Expression.<ref name=http://www.mediainstitute.org/Banquet2013/BanquetPhotos2013.php>
The program includes courses related to law and media; writing workshops; speakers, conferences and events; and career counseling and support for summer internships. The Program’s director is Professor Jack Balkin. The Law School received a grant from John S. and James L. Knight Foundation to support many of these efforts through the Knight Law and Media Scholars Program. In addition, the Knight grant will enable the Law School to bring working journalists to the Law School for training programs and conferences.
The initiative studies the ways that foreign policy affects Internet governance, and the ways that the Internet has changed how foreign policy is conducted. It represents a collaboration between the Information Society Project (ISP) and scholars of international law and politics at Yale Law School.
Yale Faculty Jack Balkin, David Grewal, Oona Hathaway, and Amy Kapczynski lead this initiative. FAIA works collaboratively with Yale Law students. It has co-sponsored events with the Yale Law National Security Group[2] and the Yale Journal of Law and Technology [3].
Members
See also
- Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School
- Berkeley Center for Law and Technology at Boalt Hall
- Information Law Institute at New York University School of Law
External links
- ^ Yale, ISP (22 September 2014). "Yale ISP History". Retrieved 22 September 2014.
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