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-- November 3, 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 will not enter the Ten Commandments
controversy. The Justices have refused to hear
a case involving a 5,300-pound monument depicting
the Ten Commandments placed in the Alabama state judicial
building rotunda by Roy Moore, suspended state supreme
court chief justice. Two lower federal courts ruled
that by doing so Moore violated the Constitution's
ban on government promotion of religion. He later
was suspended as chief justice for defying a federal
court order to remove the monument. On November 12,
the Alabama Court of the Judiciary will hear judicial
ethics violation charges against Justice Moore related
to his conduct in the matter. Constitutional scholar
Sheldon H.
Nahmod is available for interviews about the
controversy and the First Amendment separation of
church and state.
Scott Peterson's lawyers are questioning the admissibility
of mitochondrial DNA evidence presented last week
during a preliminary hearing to determine whether
he will stand trial for the murder of his wife and
their unborn child. Laci Peterson was eight months
pregnant when she disappeared Christmas Eve of 2002.
Scott Peterson was arrested April 18 for the murders,
less than a week after the remains of Laci and their
son Conner washed ashore near San Francisco. Mitochondrial
DNA is a genetic identification method used in several
states. Professors and criminal defense attorney Richard
S. Kling, who teaches forensic evidence courses,
is available to discuss how mitochondrial DNA evidence
and nuclear DNA evidence are used at trial.
Restoring a rule of law in Iraq. Professor Henry
H. Perritt, Jr., says the recent experience
in the Balkans provides an example of what can be
done in Iraq. Professor Perritt has worked to build
a rule of law, promote the free press, assist in economic
development, and provide refugee aid in the former
Yugoslavia through Project Bosnia and Operation Kosovo.
Professor Perritt is available for interviews.
More than 30 securities firms that sell mutual funds
are being investigated by the National Association
of Securities Dealers. The action comes in the wake
of revelations of widespread improprieties and that
executives of two major funds personally profited
from unscrupulous behavior. More than 95 million Americans
have mutual fund investments. Congress, the SEC and
federal and state regulators are calling for reforms.
Experts from IIT's Center
for Law and Financial Markets (CLFM) are available
for interviews.
Futures and Options Expo 03 will take place November
5-7 at the Hyatt Regency Chicago. The Expo, sponsored
by the Futures Industry Association, showcases products
and services for futures industry. There will also
be workshops focusing on industry issues, new technology
and business practices. Representatives from the CLFM
will be in Booth 720 at the Expo with information
about degree and certificate programs and distance
learning courses.
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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