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-- September 23, 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/
Former NATO commander Wesley Clark, Massachusetts
senator Bob Kerry and former Illinois senator Carol
Mosley Braun are the latest to launch their campaigns
for president in the 2004 election. Candidates are
using the Internet to reach potential voters and donors.
How can supporters determine whether a Web site is
legitimate? How can candidates and their campaigns
ensure the integrity of their Web sites and promote
ethical campaign practices? Chicago-Kent professor
Richard Warner
is available to discuss the Standards Association
for Elections Online (SAFE), a nonprofit organization
that develops standards and practices for online campaign
activity and endorses third-party monitors who certify
campaign Web sites as abiding by SAFE standards.
Ohio State running back Maurice Clarett has filed
suit against the National Football League in order
to force the NFL to declare him eligible for the 2004
draft. Clarett is a sophomore who was suspended by
the university two weeks ago for receiving benefits
that may have violated NCAA rules. Under the league's
current rules, he would be ineligible to play in the
NFL until 2005, three years after his high school
class graduated. Adjunct professor and sports attorney
Eldon L. Ham is available for interviews.
The U.S. Supreme Court's 2003-04 term begins October
7. Constitutional scholar Professor Sheldon
H. Nahmod is available to discuss highlights
of the High Court's last session and key issues the
justices will consider during the new term.
When the U.S. Supreme Court reconvenes in the fall,
it will hear oral arguments on whether the U.S. Postal
Service can be sued under antitrust laws. In 2000,
Flamingo Industries filed an antitrust suit against
the postal service, alleging that it had created an
emergency mail-sack shortage that allowed it to award
no-bid contracts to foreign manufacturers without
allowing American companies like Flamingo a chance
to compete. Chicago-Kent dean Harold
J. Krent, who represents Flamingo in this
case, is available for interviews.
What's in a name? The AOL Time-Warner board
of directors last week voted to drop "AOL"
from its corporate name. The company, which was known
as Time Warner prior to a $112 billion merger with
America Online in 2001, will revert to its old name
and stock-ticker symbol, "TWX." According
to CEO Richard Parsons, "Our new name better
reflects the portfolio of our valuable businesses
and ends confusion between our corporate name and
the America Online brand name for our investors, partners
and the public." What will this mean for the
Time-Warner and AOL brands? Stuart Graduate School
of Business professor Joel
Goldhar is available to discuss branding issues.
The Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) is bracing for
competition from Eurex, the world's largest derivatives
exchange. Eurex, which is jointly owned by Deutsche
Boerse and Swiss Stock Exchange, has filed for an
exchange license with the Commodities Futures Trading
Commission to offer futures and options on two-, five-
and ten-year U.S. Treasury notes and on 30-year Treasury
bonds. Eurex US, as the new Chicago-based fully electronic
exchange will be called, is expected to begin trading
February 1, 2004. Professor David Norman of IIT's Center for Law and Financial
Markets is available for interviews.
September 20-27 is Banned Books Week. Books
by J. K. Rowling, Mark Twain, Maya Angelou, Phyllis
Reynolds Naylor, Robert Cormier, S.E. Hinton, Dav
Pilkey, Katherine Paterson, Mildred D. Taylor and
Jean Craighead George were the most "challenged"
books of 2002, according to the American Library Association
(ALA) Office of Intellectual Freedom. The ALA released
the list in conjunction with this year's observance
of Banned Books Week. A challenge is an attempt to
remove or restrict materials based upon the objections
of a person or group. A banning is the removal of
those materials. Experts from Chicago-Kent College
of Law are available to discuss censorship issues.
Corporate executives are under increased pressure
to verify their companies' financial statements.
Under federal requirements, CEOs and CFOs face civil
and criminal penalties and fines for filing inaccurate
statements or failing to meet filing deadlines. How
can executives verify the integrity of information
they receive and disseminate? Stuart Graduate School
of Business professor Paul
R. Prabhaker, who is working with organizations
on information integrity issues, is available for
interviews.
At the Downtown Campus:
September 25: 17th annual Friends of IIT Luncheon.
John Robertson, executive director of the City
of Chicago Department of Construction and Permits,
will deliver the luncheon address. Proceeds from the
event will benefit IIT's Stuart Graduate School of
Business. For more information, call Debbie DeMondo,
Power Contracting and Engineering Corp., (847) 214-6039.
October 14: "Supporting and Protecting Human
Rights in the Internet Age" is the theme
of a half-day conference addressing the best way to
apply international human rights law to the newly
evolving world of the Internet. Panelists will discuss
the protection of individual human rights to communicate
freely and to have access to digital and other technologies.
They will also explore the use of Internet technology
to promote the protection of human rights and combat
racism, ethnic oppression and related human rights
violations. Participants include Paige Anderson
of the Center for Democracy and Technology, Ed
Carter of the Office of the Illinois Attorney
General, Joe Baker of Amnesty International,
Eric (Ricky) Goldstein of Human Rights Watch,
Dave Lundy of the Chicago
Sun-Times and Aileron Communications, Garth
Meintjes of the Center for Civil and Human Rights,
Chicago-Kent dean
Harold J. Krent, and professors Bartram
S. Brown and Ronald
W. Staudt. This conference event is free and
open to the public, but reservations are required.
Please RSVP to Nena Heard at (312) 906-5134 or nheard@lkentlaw.edu.
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