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 13, 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/
Super Bowl XXXVII will be played in San Diego on
January 26. More money is wagered on the Super
Bowl than on any other sporting event. Hundreds of
Internet gambling sites offer bettors a chance to
bet on everything from the coin toss to the final
outcome of the game. Are these sites legal? Are there
state or federal laws to protect online gamblers?
Chicago-Kent Dean Harold
J. Krent is available to discuss civil and
criminal liability, privacy issues and jurisdictional
issues related to online gambling.
A military hearing is being held for two Illinois
Air National Guardsmen involved in a "friendly
fire" incident that killed four and wounded eight
Canadian soldiers during the war in Afghanistan. The
hearing will determine wither Maj. Harry Schmidt and
Maj. William Umbach should be court-martialed. They
each face 64-year-prison terms. Last year, a U.S.
military tribunal said the officers exercised "poor
airmanship and a fundamental lack of flight discipline.
Professor Michael
I. Spak, an expert on military law, is available
for interviews. Professor Spak served on active duty
with the U.S. Army in the Judge Advocate General's
Corps from 1963 to 1969 and has remained in the U.S.
Army Reserves. As Colonel Spak, he is currently liaison
officer of the Judge Advocate General's School, Charlottesville,
Virginia.
The federal trial of Scott Fawell continues.
Fawell, who served as former Gov. George Ryan's 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.
The CBOT's new electronic trading platform.
The Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) last week selected
LIFFE Connect to provide an upgrade to its electronic
trading platform. Exchange officials said LIFFE Connect
is better able to execute complicated trading strategies
than its current provider, Eurex. 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. The Bush
administration is deploying troops to the region.
However, UN Secretary General Kofi Annan that it was
too early for the Security Council to consider whether
to authorize military action against Iraq. Professor
Bartram S.
Brown is co-director of Chicago-Kent's International
and Comparative Law Program. Professor Brown is available
for interviews.
On the Downtown Campus:
January 22: Center for Law and Financial Markets
Open House. Prospective students will meet with
faculty, alumni and admissions staff to discuss career
opportunities and courses of study in graduate and
certification programs. Professor David Norman will discuss future trends in market
technology. Following his presentation will be a tour
of the Center's trading lab and a demonstration of
trading platforms used by industry practitioners.
The open house will begin at 5:15 p.m. at 565 W. Adams
St. in Chicago. For more information, contact Nidhi
Singh at (312) 906-5387 or nsingh@clfm.iit.edu.
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.
.
January 30: Career Opportunities in Healthcare
Marketing. Prospective students are invited to
meet the faculty and learn more about Stuart Graduate
School of Business' master of science in marketing
communication and its new concentration in health
care marketing. The program is designed to meet the
critical need for trained professionals who can develop
and implement marketing plans and strategies in hospitals,
pharmaceutical companies, HMOs, clinic networks and
other health care organizations. A panel of healthcare
marketing professionals will discuss career opportunities.
Panelists include: Terrence Rynne, president,
Rynne Marketing Group; professor and health care researcher
Dr. William Martin; and Bobbi Higham,
president, Alpha Clinical Enterprises. For more information,
contact Professor John
Tarini at (312) 906-6535.
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