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-- May 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/
Operation Bidder Beware was launched by the federal
government and 29 state attorneys general to fight
online auction fraud. According to the Federal Trade
Commission, approximately 51,000 complaints filed
relating to online auction fraud were filed. Almost
2,000 came from consumers in Illinois. Attorney general
Lisa Madigan last week filed three civil lawsuits
against four people who sold goods on eBay, but never
delivered the items won. Earlier this year, Chicago-Kent
honors scholars 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 online
auction fraud and about the project.
Several Glenbrook North High School students involved
in a May 4 hazing incident at a Cook County forest
preserve have received immediate ten-day suspensions.
Others will be expelled. School officials originally
thought suspensions for an incident that happened
off-school grounds were not allowed under state law.
Attorneys for the school district advised them that
disciplinary action is permissible. Experts are available
for interviews.
Preparing the Serbian legal system to conduct war
crimes trials. Professor Bartram
S. Brown was part of a delegation of humanitarian
law experts who went to the former Yugoslavia to train
Serbian judges, lawyers and prosecutors on how to
conduct international war crimes trials. While there,
Professor Brown also provided comments on the draft
Serbian law to establish a special war crimes court.
The training process may serve as a model for any
post-war legal activity in Iraq. Professor Brown is
available for interviews.
May is Older Americans' Month. Professor Howard
Eglit is an expert on law and aging and the
author of a three-volume treatise entitled Age Discrimination.
Professor Eglit is available to discuss employment
discrimination and other legal issues that affect
older Americans. His number is (312) 906-5083.
Online trading. Professor David Norman of IIT's Center for Law and Financial
Markets is the author of Professional
Electronic Trading. Professor Norman is available
for interviews about electronic trading platforms
and about the one-year anniversary of the Center's
electronic trading laboratory.
On the Downtown Campus:
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.
June 6: 22nd annual Conference on Not-For-Profit
Organizations. This one-day seminar is presented
by a faculty of leading organization executives, attorneys,
accountants and government officials. The program
will include sessions on new developments in taxation,
legislation and regulations of non-profits. Highlights
include: Implications of Sarbanes-Oxley for Best Practices
in Not-For- Profits, Update from the Illinois Attorney
General's Office, Forensic Accounting and Employee
Fraud, Common Errors on Financial Statements, Retirement
Plans in Today's Uncertain Climate, and Top 10 Financial
Mistakes Non-Profit Organizations Make and Can Avoid.
For more information, call (312) 906-5090. To register
on line visit www.kentlaw.edu/depts/cle/nfp.
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