Initiative for a Representative First Amendment
The Initiative for a Representative First Amendment (IfRFA) was a shared project between the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society and the Cyberlaw Clinic that ran from 2019 to 2024.
IfRFA provided financial support and career opportunities for law students from backgrounds traditionally underrepresented in First Amendment law. The program helped law students build expertise, make connections with clinics, and see themselves as part of a broad web of practitioners dedicated to justice and free expression. This work was done primarily through a fellowship program, which funded law students to spend a summer diving into the nitty-gritty of freedom of expression work.
The Legal Clinic Fund put together a report highlighting Impact Stories, which summarized the work of both IfRFA and a number of sibling clinics at various law schools. Highlights of IfRFA's work were referenced in the following report, which you can read here.
For more information, please visit https://ifrfa.org.
