Professor Colleen Medill was selected to participate in an invitation-only national workshop on the financial future of retirement systems for public employees from September 17-20, 2015, in Palo Alto, California. The workshop, sponsored by George Mason University’s Law and Economics Center, was designed to educate law professors concerning the financial and structural crises facing state retirement systems with the goal of stimulating additional research in the field. Workshop topics included the core concepts of public pension reform, including financial economics for public policy, pensions and the public employee labor market, measuring pension liabilities, the challenges and opportunities of public pension reform, retiree health benefits for public employees, and a case study on attempted reforms to the Illinois pension system.