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 20, 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 finaloutcome
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.
Roe v. Wade. This week marks the 30th
anniversary of the landmark Supreme Court decision
that legalized abortion on demand in the United States.
Professor Katharine
K. Baker is available for interviews about
the decision.
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.
Chicago Public Schools CEO Arne Duncan last week
announced new security measures for public league
games after a fight among fans at Crane High school
disrupted a basketball game. What is sports rage and
how can it be prevented? Sports attorney and adjunct
professor Eldon L. Ham is available to talk
about violence in sports – on and off the field
of play.
For the second consecutive year, mutual funds devoted
to gold were among the industry's best performers.
In 2002, funds investing in gold stocks rose an average
of 64 percent, according to Bloomberg News. Professor
Robert Laurent of Stuart Graduate School
of Business is available to talk about gold prices
and the role of gold in monetary policy. Professor
Laurent served as a senior economist with the Federal
Reserve Bank of Chicago, participating in regular
briefings and policy recommendations regarding monetary
policy.
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. Professor
Bartram S.
Brown is co-director of Chicago-Kent's International
and Comparative Law Program. Professor Brown is available
for interviews.
Stuart Graduate School of Business has established
a concentration in health care marketing within
its master's degree program in marketing communication
to train professionals in hospitals, pharmaceutical
companies, HMOs, clinic networks and other health
care organizations. Health care communications and
marketing personnel develop messages and strategies
to educate the public about individual and community
health issues, and to inform consumers about health
care options. Professor John
Tarini is available for interviews about the
new program and to discuss an upcoming open house
for prospective students. (See below.)
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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