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-- April 21, 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/
Restoring a rule of law in Iraq. Chicago-Kent
professor Henry
H. Perritt, Jr., says the recent experience
in the Balkans provides an example of what should
be done in Iraq. Professor Perritt has worked to build
a rule of law, promote the free press, assist in economic
development, and provide refugee aid in the former
Yugoslavia through Project Bosnia and Operation Kosovo.
Professor Perritt is available for interviews.
The spoils of war. Agribusinesses, utility and
telecommunications companies, and firms that specialize
in heavy machinery to build roads and bridges are
among those who would reap benefits in the reconstruction
of postwar Iraq, says Eliezer
Geisler, professor and associate dean for
research at Stuart Graduate School of Business. Professor
Geisler is available for interviews.
The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
(OPEC) will hold an emergency meeting in Vienna
April 24 to avert a possible price crash by reducing
crude oil production. Professor Howard Simons of IIT's Center for Law and Financial
Markets is available for interviews. Professor Simons
has more than 20 years' experience in financial and
energy markets. He began his career as an economist
with the Amoco Corporation, and then was the managing
consultant for energy with Data Resources, Inc. He
has designed econometric trading systems for crude
oil traders and provided fundamental analyses for
financial market traders.
"Most wanted" playing cards and Iraqi
money are among the hottest selling war-related
items offered in online auctions. Each year, Internet
auction fraud costs American consumers approximately
$5 million. The most prevalent complaints involve
identity theft, misrepresented merchandise or undelivered
goods. Honors scholars of Chicago-Kent College of
Law have collaborated with the City of Chicago Department
of Consumer Services and AT&T to create "You
Don't Know Auctions!", an interactive Internet
game to educate the public about online auctions and
the dangers of auction fraud. The Web address for
the game is www.youdontknowauctions.com.
Dean Harold J.
Krent, who served as faculty supervisor for
the project, is available for interviews about auction
fraud and about the project.
The NBA playoff season has begun. Adjunct professor
and sports attorney Eldon L. Ham is available
for interviews. Professor Ham is author of The
Playmasters: From Sellouts to Lockouts, an Unauthorized
History of the NBA.
American law students are invited to apply for Chicago-Kent's
new summer abroad program in Mexico City with
Tec de Monterrey, one of Mexico's leading private
universities. The program, which runs from June 16
through July 23, 2003, will give U.S. law students
an opportunity to study Mexican law and U.S./Mexican
legal issues. May 1 is the deadline for applications,
which are available on the program's Web site: http://www.kentlaw.edu/glpi/mexico.
Professor Howard
Eglit is available for media interviews about
the program.
On the Downtown Campus:
May 1-2: 22nd annual Federal Tax Institute. Larry
R. Langdon, commissioner of the Internal Revenue
Service's Large and Mid-Size Business Division, will
be the Tax Institute's luncheon speaker on May 1.
The two-day program will review recent developments
in case law and rulings in the federal income, estate,
gift and employee benefits tax areas; partnerships;
and international tax issues. One timely session will
explore "Executive Compensation in a Post-Enron,
Tyco, WorldCom, and Sarbanes-Oxley World." For
more information, call (312) 906-5090 or visit www.kentlaw.edu/depts/cle/fedtax/
on the Web.
May 17: Stuart Graduate School of Business’
2003 Commencement. Robert Growney, a partner
at Edgewater Funds and chairman of the Stuart Graduate
School of Business Board of Overseers, will deliver
the commencement address. Growney, who received both
his bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering
and his MBA from IIT, is former president and chief
operating officer of Motorola. Approximately 100 students
will receive graduate degrees in business. The program
will begin at 11a.m.at IIT’s Hermann Union Hall,
3241 South Federal Street in Chicago.
May 25: Chicago-Kent 2003 Commencement. Illinois
State Senator Barack Obama (D-Chicago) will deliver
the commencement address as approximately 350 Chicago-Kent
students receive their law degrees. The commencement
ceremony will be held at 2 p.m. at McCormick Place
Lakeside Center, 2301 S. Lake Shore Drive in Chicago.
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