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 20, 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/
Basketball superstar Kobe Bryant has been ordered
to stand trial on charges that he sexually assaulted
a 19-year-old Colorado woman on June 30. Bryant claims
their sexual encounter was consensual, not rape. His
next court appearance is scheduled for Nov. 10. If
convicted, Bryant could be sentenced to probation
or between four years and life in prison, and fined
up to $750,000. Professor Katharine
K. Baker, author of What
Rape Is and What It Ought Not Be and a number
of other legal articles on sexual assault, is available
for interviews.
D.C. sniper trial. A judge has ruled that John
Allen Muhammad may represent himself at trial for
the murder of Dean Myers. If convicted, he faces the
death penalty. Muhammad is one of two men arrested
for last October's sniper shootings in the metropolitan
Washington, D.C., area that left ten people dead and
three wounded. His alleged accomplice, Lee Boyd Malvo,
will be tried separately next month. Legal experts
are available for interviews.
"D.C. Sniper: 23 Days of Fear," a made-for-TV
movie about the attacks, aired Friday night on
the USA Network just hours after a jury was seated
for John Allen Muhammad's murder trial. Emmy award
winning actor Charles S. Dutton portrayed former Montgomery
County police chief Charles A. Moose, whose memoir
about the case, Three Weeks
in October: The Manhunt for the Serial Sniper,
was released in September. What impact, if any, will
the film, book and other pretrial publicity have on
the trial? Criminal defense attorney and professor
Richard S. Kling
is available for interviews.
This year marks the 100th anniversary of the World
Series. Sports attorney and adjunct professor
Eldon L. Ham recently participated in a conference
co-sponsored by the Baseball Hall of Fame, the Boston
Red Sox and the Pittsburgh Pirates commemorating the
first World Series. Professor Ham is available for
interviews about the first World Series and his presentation,
"Larceny and Old Leather: The Mischievous Legacy
of Major League Baseball."
On Friday, the company formerly known as AOL-Time
Warner became Time Warner – again. The board
of directors last month 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, also reclaimed its old 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's in a name? What will the change mean for the
Time Warner and AOL brands? Joel
Goldhar, professor of technology management
at Stuart Graduate School of Business, is available
to discuss the AOL-Time Warner merger and branding
issues.
"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.
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.
Nine Chicago-Kent students are learning about issues
of concern to the Polish-American community this
semester in a special seminar. The students are working
with local attorney Christopher Kurczaba and Professor
Richard Warner,
director of Chicago-Kent's Project
Poland program. The students are working on
lobbying efforts regarding immigration reform, foreign
aid to Poland and the requirements for obtaining valid
driver's licenses. Professor Warner is available to
discuss the course and Project Poland.
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.
November 19: The NAFTA World of Work: A Progress
Report on Globalization, Trade and the North American
Workplace. What does the future hold for this
continent's regional employment markets, labor standards,
and transnational and national labor and employment
law regimes. Professor Harry Arthurs of York
University will deliver the keynote address, "The
Hollowing Out of Corporate Canada." Panels will
explore "Regulating Labor in the Global Economy:
NAFTA, Free Trade, and Employment Rights in North
America," and "The Ripple Effects of Free
Trade: NAFTA's Impact on the Domestic Labor Environment."
The program, which is free and open to the public,
is co-sponsored by Chicago-Kent College of Law and
the Canadian Consulate of Chicago. It is also made
possible with the cooperation and support of Global
Chicago, the Chicago Bar Association and the American
Bar Association. Reservations are required. RSVP to
Nena Heard at (312) 906-5134 or nheard@kentlaw.edu.
November 19: Stuart Graduate School of Business'
Leadership Series. Professor Thomas P. M. Barnett
of the U.S. Naval War College will discuss his work
on the relationship between economic globalization
and domestic security. In addition to his work as
a senior strategic researcher in the Warfare Analysis
and Research Department of the Center for Naval Warfare
Studies at the U.S. Naval War College, Professor Barnett
is an assistant for strategic futures in the Office
of Force Transformation in the Office of the Secretary
of Defense where he is responsible for helping to
define the new post 9/11 international security environment.
For more information, call (312) 906-6509.
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