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Editor: David Reiss
Cornell Law School

October 16, 2026

Restoring Accountability & the Rule of Law

By David Reiss

I am excited to speak at at Yale Law School’s Access & Accountability 2026: Restoring Accountability & the Rule of Law conference next week:

The Media Freedom and Information Access Clinic and the Abrams Institute for Freedom of Expression annually bring together transparency advocates of all stripes to identify current impediments to government openness and to develop strategies for addressing them. Law school clinicians from around the country, together with investigative journalists, academics, practicing lawyers, and law students, explore some of the most urgent transparency issues in the areas of law enforcement, national security and surveillance, government data and personal privacy, and newsgathering rights. The conference is designed to facilitate the development of ongoing relationships, cooperation, and collaboration among practitioners, journalists, and law school faculties to promote governmental accountability and transparency.

Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer and William Eskridge (Yale) will discuss “the current state of the Court, recent criticism of its rulings and the procedures sometimes used to reach them, and the troubling decline in the public’s confidence in the Court.”

My panel will focus on the role of AI in clinical legal education. It will be moderated by Marisol Orihuela (Yale) and the other panelists are Bob Ambrogi (LawNext); Patrick Barry (Michigan) and Lisa Hoppenjans (Wash U.).

The full list of speaker bios for the two-day event is here. Looking forward to it!

 

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