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Senator Richard Blumenthal ’73 and the advocacy group Veterans Education Success have called on the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to act against the deceptive recruitment of veterans by predatory colleges citing a recent legal memorandum produced by the Veterans Legal Services Clinic at Yale Law School.

Boudewijn Sirks, Emeritus Regius Professor of Civil Law at University of Oxford, will give a dean’s lecture on April 7 at 4:30 p.m. The lecture is titled “Will the real Roman Law please stand up? Pandectism, promissory estoppel and other aspects of Roman Law.”

The Robert L. Bernstein International Human Rights Symposium will be held April 7–8, 2016. This year’s event is part of JUNCTURE: Explorations in Art and Human Rights.

Yale Law School’s 2016 Commencement ceremony will take place on Monday, May 23, 2016.

Anne L. Alstott ’87, Jacquin D. Bierman Professor in Taxation, is the author of the newly released book A New Deal for Old Age: Toward a Progressive Retirement (Harvard University Press). In the book, Alstott argues that Social Security, which was created in the 1930s, marks a major achievement that is worth preserving but is out of step with the realities of work and aging today.

Professor Tracey L. Meares, the Walton Hale Hamilton Professor of Law at Yale Law School, will travel to the White House on Wednesday, March 30 to participate in a convening on Women and the Criminal Justice System.

Professor Jack Goldsmith ’89 will deliver the Sherrill Lecture on April 4, 2016, at 4:30 p.m. in Room 127. The lecture is titled “The Obama Administration’s Contributions to the Practice and Theory of International Law.”

A joint report exploring the ways in which legal and political frameworks can help or hinder new forms of developing journalism was published on March 23, 2016.