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-- March 12, 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/
International Criminal Court. Eleven men and
seven women were sworn in this week as the first judges
of the International Criminal Court (ICC). The judges
will serve as members of the world's first permanent
war crimes court and will hear cases of those accused
of genocide, crimes against humanity and other war
crimes. Professor Bartram
S. Brown is co-director of Chicago-Kent's
program in international and comparative law. Professor
Brown served as a law clerk at the International Criminal
Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, and participated
in the 1998 Rome Diplomatic Conference on the Establishment
of an International Criminal Court as Legal Advisor
to the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago. His is available
for interviews about the ICC. His phone number is
(312) 906-5046.
Jury deliberations have begun in the federal trial
of Scott Fawell. Fawell, who served as former
Gov. George Ryan's chief of staff in the secretary
of state's office and as his 1998 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. Chicago-Kent
experts are available to discuss the case.
"Don't look beyond March." British
ambassador Jeremy Greenstock told CNN that while his
country was willing to prolong the deadline for Iraq
to disarm or face military action, he doubted that
the time period would be extended beyond this month.
Chicago-Kent dean Harold
J. Krent and professors Bartram
S. Brown, Henry
H. Perritt, Jr., and Michael
I. Spak will discuss issues related to the
confrontation with Iraq at an open forum today. (See
below.) They are also available for interviews.
What impact could a war have on the U.S. economy?
Professor Howard Simons of IIT's Center for Law and Financial
Markets is available for interviews.
Will the Federal Reserve Bank cut interest rates
again? Policymakers will meet on March 18 to consider
interest rate policy. Rising unemployment figures
have fueled speculation that the Fed will lower rates
to their lowest level since 1958 when Dwight D. Eisenhower
was president. Professor Robert
Laurent of Stuart Graduate School of Business
is a former economist with the Federal Reserve Bank
of Chicago. He is available for interviews.
Baseball commissioner Bud Selig supports the Chicago
Cubs' move to block landmark status for Wrigley Field.
The team wants to expand bleacher seats and make other
changes to increase revenues. However, the Commission
on Chicago Landmarks wants the Chicago City Council
to approve its recommendation to give the ballpark
landmark status at public hearings this week. Sports
attorney and adjunct professor Eldon L. Ham
is available for interviews.
On the Downtown Campus:
March 12: "War. What Is It Good For?"
Chicago-Kent Dean Harold
J. Krent and professors Henry
H. Perritt, Jr., Bartram
S. Brown and Michael
I. Spak will discuss constitutional, human
rights, military political and international law issues
related to the impending war with Iraq. This program
is sponsored by the Student Bar Association and is
free and open to the public. For more information,
call (312) 906-5149.
March 27-28: 20th annual conference on Section 1983
Civil Rights Litigation. This two-day seminar
provides a comprehensive update, presented by leading
practitioners and legal scholars, on liability arising
out of Section 1983 and other civil rights statutes.
Police misconduct litigation, sexual harassment, municipal
liability, land use regulation, the Americans with
Disabilities Act, and recent cases before the U.S.
Supreme Court are among the topics to be explored.
For more information, call (312) 906-5090 or visit
www.kentlaw.edu/depts/cle/
on the Web.
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