For more information,
please contact:
Gwen Osborne,
director of public affairs, (312) 906-5251
ADVISORY TO PRODUCERS, COLUMNISTS AND ASSIGNMENT,
LEGAL, PLANNING, BUSINESS, AND DAYBOOK EDITORS
CHICAGO-- January 6, 2003--Chicago-Kent
College of Law, the Stuart Graduate School of Business
and the Center for Law and Financial Markets have
experts available to discuss current issues. To reach
any of our experts, call Gwen
Osborne, director of public affairs, at (312)
906-5251. Copies of press releases and earlier advisories
are available on our Web site: http://www.kentlaw.edu/news/
The federal trial of Scott Fawell is scheduled to
begin January 8. Fawell, who served as Gov. George
Ryan's former chief of staff and campaign manager,
is charged with racketeering, theft of government
funds, conspiracy to obstruct justice, perjury, mail
fraud and filing false tax returns. Citizens for Ryan,
the campaign committee, has also been charged with
racketeering charges, the first such charges to be
filed against a political campaign committee. Experts
will be available to discuss the trial as it progresses.
Time Magazine's has proclaimed 2002 "The Year
of the Whistleblower." Cynthia Cooper of
WorldCom, Coleen Rowley of the FBI and Sherron Watkins
of Enron were selected as the magazine's Persons of
the Year for exposing wrongdoing at their places of
employment. Professor Martin
H. Malin, director of Chicago-Kent's Institute
for Law and the Workplace, can discuss whistleblowers
and the laws that protect them.
The Chicago Board Options Exchange is considering
an upgrade to its current electronic trading platform.
The Chicago Mercantile Exchange is expected to launch
enhanced electronic trading capabilities in February.
Most of the trade of Eurodollars currently takes place
in the open outcry pits. Under the Merc's new system,
traders will be able to complete trading of Eurodollars
futures online. Professor David Norman is director of market technology at
IIT's Center for Law and Financial Markets and author
of Professional Electronic
Trading. He is available for interviews.
On January 27, chief weapons inspector Hans Blix
will deliver to the UN Security Council a full
report on what his team has found in Iraq. It is expected
that at that time the Bush administration will decide
whether to go to war with Iraq. Professor Bartram
S. Brown is co-director of Chicago-Kent's
International and Comparative Law Program. He has
worked on a number of UN projects and presently serves
on the board of Amnesty International, USA. Professor
Brown is available for interviews. His number is (312)
906-5046.
Nine thousand reservists were called up last week
as the U.S. continues to prepare for the possibility
of war with Iraq. Professor Michael
I. Spak, a colonel in the U.S. Army reserves,
is a co-author of Servicemember's
Legal Guide: Everything You and Your Family Need to
Know About the Law. He can discuss legal matters
of concern to members of the armed services, including
the Uniform Code of Military Justice and the Soldiers'
and Sailors' Relief Act of 1940.
In 1989, Commissioner A. Bartlett Giamatti banned
Pete Rose from baseball for life for gambling.
One day before the ban, Rose signed a document that
did not admit any guilt and included a provision that
allowed him to apply for reinstatement after one year.
Rose unsuccessfully applied in 1997. He has recently
met with current commissioner Bud Selig regarding
reinstatement to the game. Sports law attorney and
adjunct professor Eldon L. Ham is author of
The 100 Greatest Sports Blunders
of All Time. Professor Ham is available to
discuss the Pete Rose controversy and how his reinstatement
might impact banned players "Shoeless Joe"
Jackson and Buck Weaver.
Why is health care so expensive? A recent report
by the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association points
to "the rapid proliferation of new medical technology
and the growing trend of hospital consolidation"
as the leading factors in rising health care costs.
Professor Eliezer
Geisler, director of the Center for the Management
of Medical Technology at Stuart Graduate School of
Business, disagrees with the findings. Professor Geisler,
co-editor of the forthcoming book The
Hospital of the Future, is available to discuss
the role medical technology plays in the cost of health
care delivery.
Investments in hedge funds now total about $560
billion, up 75 percent from 1999. Professor Keith Black of IIT's Center for Law and Financial
Markets says, "While most investors are worried
about the stock market's three-year decline, other
investors are making money even as stock prices fall."
Professor Black can discuss why investors are attracted
to hedge funds in this market environment, strategies
hedge funds use to make money in up and down markets,
and how the growth in hedge fund investments affects
the stock and bond markets.
Real Estate Investing in Chicago: The Year-in-Review.
Stuart Graduate School of Business professor John
Twombly can discuss the real estate investing
environment in Chicago and how it has changed and
adjusted during 2002. He can also talk about changing
demand data and cost structures, and comment on the
probability that real estate can continue the returns
seen recently.
In the Faculty Spotlight:
For more than two decades, Chicago-Kent professor and
defense attorney Richard
Kling has represented clients in cases that
have ranged from burglary to capital murder. Clinical
students in the Chicago-Kent Law Offices have worked
side-by-side with him on these cases. Professor Kling
also teaches evidence and forensic sciences at the
law school. He is co-editor of a three-volume training
manual for the Cook County Public Defender, and has
published Illinois Criminal
Defense Motions, a manual of motions for Illinois
criminal defense practitioners. Read more about Professor
Kling and his work at: www.kentlaw.edu/faculty/spotlight.
On the Downtown Campus:
January 23: "A Constitution for Europe: The
Next Step in European Integration?" is the
topic of a panel discussion sponsored by Chicago-Kent's
Global Law and Policy Initiative. Panelists include
Dr. Elisabeth Kehrer, Consul General, Austria;
Dr. Jack Knott, Director of the Institute of
Government and Public Affairs at the University of
Illinois at Chicago; Richard C. Longworth,
Chicago Tribune senior writer; and Dr. Alexander
Petri, Consul General, Germany. Chicago-Kent Distinguished
Professor David
J. Gerber will serve as moderator. The program
is free and open to the public, but reservations are
required. To R.S.V.P., contact Nina Heard at (312)
906-5134 or nheard@kentlaw.edu.
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