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-- June 4, 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/
The U.S. Supreme Court's 2002-2003 term is coming
to an end. The High Court still has several rulings
on key legal issues to hand down. The Justices will
rule on cases involving commercial speech, sodomy
laws, prosecuting child molesters, and limiting children's
access to the Internet in schools and libraries. Professor
Sheldon Nahmod
is available for interviews about key decisions and
themes of this term.
Sosa uncorked. Major League Baseball officials
have collected every bat in Sammy Sosa's locker to
determine whether the Chicago Cubs' player has more
corked bats. Sosa used a corked bat during Wednesday's
game between the Cubs and the Devil Rays. League rules
prohibit players from altering their bats beyond major-league
specifications. Sports attorney and adjunct professor
Eldon L. Ham is author of The
100 Greatest Sports Blunders of All Time. Professor
Ham is available for interviews.
Martha Stewart has been indicted on federal charges
of securities fraud and obstruction of justice as
a result of her sale of nearly 4,000 shares of ImClone
Systems Inc. stock in 2001. Stewart sold the stock
one day before that company announced that the FDA
had rejected its application for approval of a cancer
drug. Legal experts are available to discuss the case.
What is a stop-loss order? Martha Stewart claims
she has done nothing wrong and that there was a stop-loss
order with her broker to sell her shares once the
price reached a set level. Professor Keith Black of the Center for Law and Financial
Markets can explain what stop-loss orders are and
how they can be used by investors.
Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia (MSO), which is
traded on the New York Stock Exchange, includes
Stewart's television and radio programs, publishing
interests and several joint venture agreements. What
will her indictment mean for Martha Stewart's personal
brand? Stuart Graduate School of Business professor
Joel Goldhar is available to discuss personal
branding issues. Professor Goldhar can also talk about
corporate ethics and professional responsibility issues.
What will the Fed do next? Stuart Graduate School
of Business professor Robert
Laurent, a former economist with the Federal
Reserve Bank of Chicago, is available for interviews.
Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan will
address participants at Chicago-Kent's 22nd annual
Conference on Not-For-Profit Organizations on June
6. The attorney general is expected to discuss the
role of her office's Charitable Trust Bureau in promoting
legitimate charitable contributions and regulating
Illinois' charities, as well as the recent landmark
U.S. Supreme Court victory Madigan v. Telemarketing
Associates, Inc., and her experiences volunteering
in the non-profit world. (See below.)
Chicago-Kent's PreLaw Undergraduate Scholars program
(PLUS) began this week. More than two dozen minority
undergraduate students interested in careers in law
will participate in the special four-week session.
Currently enrolled in Big Ten universities, historically
black colleges and universities (HBCUs), Washington
University in St. Louis , St. Mary's University and
New York University, the students will take courses
adapted from the law school's curriculum, hear guest
speakers, and learn about the law school admissions
process. The students will also visit courts, participate
in a mock trial and complete a one-day "internship"
in a legal setting. Nicole Gerenstein, assistant
director of multicultural affairs, is available for
interviews about the program, which ends June 27.
1938 World Series Redux? The New York Yankees
will play the Chicago Cubs in Wrigley Field this weekend
for the first time since their face off in the 1938
World Series. Fans will see the Yankees' Roger Clemens
attempt to win his 300th game in a pitching duel against
the Kerry Wood of the Cubs. Meanwhile, Yankee owner
George Steinbrenner is complaining that the current
interleague game schedule is unfairly drawn. Sports
attorney and adjunct professor Eldon L. Ham
has anecdotes about Cubs-Yankee rivalry including
the 1932 World Series in which Babe Ruth hit his famous
"called-shot home run." Professor Ham can
also talk about interleague play.
IIT's Center for Law and Financial Markets (CLFM)
established a virtual trading laboratory in May
of 2002 to teach graduate students and market professionals
automated trading. Professor David Norman, director the center's market technology
program, is studying trader activity to learn how
decisions are made. Professor Norman is the author
of Professional Electronic Trading and Trading at
the Speed of Light. He is available to talk about
the trading laboratory, and the "Trader DNA"
project and to schedule a media demonstration of the
lab.
In the Faculty Spotlight:
Professor Evelyn
Brody is a tax law expert and an active participant
in the nonprofit tax policy debate. Her scholarly
publications have examined the tax treatment of education,
the economic and institutional similarities between
nonprofit and for-profit organizations, charitable
endowments, the direct and indirect effects of tax
reform on charities, the limits of nonprofit fiduciary
law, the constitutional bounds of the right of association,
and the enforcement powers of the IRS and state attorneys
general. She recently was named a reporter for a new
American Law Institute project, Principles of the
Law of Nonprofit Organizations. She is editor and
co-author of Property-Tax Exemptions
for Charities: Mapping the Battlefield. To
read more about Professor Brody and her work, visit
www.kentlaw.edu/faculty/spotlight.
On the Downtown Campus:
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.
June 19-20: Third Chicago/Midwest Renewable Energy
Workshop. IIT researchers, experts from Stuart
Graduate School of Business' Center for Sustainable
Enterprise, and representatives from business and
government will discuss ways to harness power and
profit from the sun, wind and other renewable sources
of energy. For more information contact Professor
Said Al-Hallaj at (312) 567-5118.
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