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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.

The Media and Freedom Information Access Clinic secured a victory in a Missouri Circuit Court on March 21, 2016 when a judge ruled that the Missouri Department of Corrections (DOC) was required under state law to disclose the names of the pharmacies from which it purchases the drugs used to execute inmates on death row.

Yale Law School will hold a conference titled “Canada in the World: Comparative Perspectives on the Canadian Constitution," on April 12, 2016.

Yale Law School has received a gift of $30 million in honor of its distinguished alumnus, the late Dr. Paul C. Tsai, LL.M ’54, J.S.D. ’57, to support the continuing work of the Law School’s China Center.