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-- October 13, 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 Chicago Cubs are playing the Florida Marlins
for the National League Championship. Sports attorney
and adjunct professor Eldon L. Ham is available for
interviews. Professors David
Rudstein and Ralph
Brill are die-hard Cubs fans who are available
for fan reaction.
Don't bet on it. When the baseball season started,
the Cubs were listed as 50-1 longshots to win the
World Series. Now, Las Vegas oddsmakers say the team
has a 4-to-1 or better chance to win it all. However,
online bettors looking to wager on the team may lose
more than money. "In Illinois and many other
states, such wagers are against the law. But online
gamblers can also leave themselves open to identity
fraud and credit card theft by unscrupulous sites,"
says Chicago-Kent dean Harold
J. Krent. He is available for interviews.
Is the Pledge of Allegiance unconstitutional?
The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case that
will determine whether the Pledge of Allegiance violates
the Establishment Clause of the constitution. At issue
is the phrase "under God" Justice Antonin
Scalia has recused himself from case, opening the
possibility of a 4-4 ruling in the case. Constitutional
scholar Professor Sheldon
H. Nahmod is available to discuss this case
and the concept of "ceremonial deism."
"Privatization is not always a bed of roses.
Sometimes it amounts to a heap of garbage,"
says Professor
Martin H. Malin, director of Chicago-Kent's
Institute for Law and the Workplace.
He says the nine-day waste haulers' strike, which
affected certain commercial and residential buildings
in metropolitan Chicago, shows the downside of privatization.
Professor Malin, author of the forthcoming book, Public
Sector Employment, is available for interviews.
Jury selection has begun in the trial of John Allen
Muhammad for the murder of Dean Myers. Muhammad
is one of two men arrested for last October's sniper
shootings in the metropolitan Washington, DC area
that left 10 people dead and three wounded. His alleged
accomplice, Lee Boyd Malvo, will be tried separately
next month. Legal experts are available for interviews.
"The Runaway Jury," a film based on John
Grisham's best-selling novel about jurors in a
multi-million dollar tobacco company case, opens this
week. Professor Nancy
Marder, who teaches a course on juries, judges
and trials, has written extensively about the American
jury system. Recent articles include Juries, Justice
and Multiculturalism and Juries and Technology:
Equipping Jurors for the Twenty-First Century.
She is the author of a forthcoming book called Jury
Process. Professor Marder is available for
interviews about the jury system. However, she has
not seen the film and cannot comment on it directly.
More women are seeking MBA degrees to gain more
credibility in the workplace, according to a recent
survey by the Graduate Management Admission Council.
Suzanne Weiss, an alumna and director of Stuart
Graduate School of Business' MBA program, is available
for interviews about the value of an MBA degree.
What can policymakers at the Fed do to stimulate
the economy? The Federal Reserve's Open Market
Committee will meet on October 28. IIT's Stuart Graduate
School of Business professor Robert
Laurent is a former economist with the Federal
Reserve Bank of Chicago. He is available for interviews.
GWBush.com is a Web site that displays what appears
to be the president's campaign logo. Visitors
to the site soon discover it is a parody site that
pokes fun at the president and other Republicans.
Professor Richard
Warner recently has been elected president
of Standards Association for Elections Online (SAFE),
a nonprofit organization that develops standards and
practices for online campaign activity. SAFE is creating
standards and identifying third-party monitors to
certify compliance with the standards. Professor Warner
is available for interviews.
At the Downtown Campus:
November 5: 2003 Chicago-Kent College of Law Annual
All Alumnae/i Awards Luncheon. The law school's
Alumnae/i Association will honor members of the legal
community. (EDITORS PLEASE NOTE: The names of Chicago-Kent
graduates are followed by the year their degrees were
earned.) Jed Stone '75 and Thu Tran
'96 will receive the new Abraham Lincoln Marovitz
Public Interest Law Award. Stuart Levine '71,
the Honorable Barbara Gilleran Johnson
'78, the Honorable Sybil Thomas '91,
the Honorable Thomas Fitzgerald, Chicago-Kent
professor Richard Kling and Nancy Roberts
Linder will receive professional achievement awards.
Distinguished Service awards will go to Herbert
Glieberman '53 and to Chicago-Kent professors
Ron Staudt and Lori Andrews. Dan
Kirschner '98 will receive the Young Alumnus Award.
The event will be held in the Red Lacquer Room of
the Palmer House Hilton, 17 East Monroe in Chicago.
November 7: "Labor Relations During Times of
Fiscal Restraint" is the topic of the keynote
address by National Education Association president
Reg Weaver at Chicago-Kent's 19th annual
Illinois Public Sector Labor Relations Law
Program. The program is sponsored by Chicago-Kent's
Institute for Law and the Workplace.
November 10: The 15th annual Henry Morris Lecture
in International and Comparative Law. John Braithwaite,
professorial fellow of the Australian Research Council
and chair of the Australian National University's
RegNet, will address the topic, "Ratcheting
Up and Driving Down Global Business Standards."
The lecture series is funded by the Henry Morris Endowment,
established in memory of Henry Crittendon Morris,
who graduated from Chicago-Kent College of Law in
1889. Mr. Morris enjoyed a distinguished career as
an international lawyer and diplomat. The program
is free and open to the public. For more information,
call (312) 906-5090.
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