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 17, 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/
Chicago-Kent Dean Harold
J. Krent will argue a case before the U.S. Supreme
Court December 1. Dean Krent represents Flamingo
Industries in a case that will determine 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. Dean Krent is available for interviews
about the case.
Outsourcing as a strategic management discipline.
Stuart Graduate School of Business and ROS Inc. of
Lisle, Ill., have joined to offer the first university-based
outsourcing program in the region. The program is
a sequence of four two-day courses that address key
elements of the outsourcing life cycle, from strategy
through implementation, contracting, monitoring and
metrics. The program, which will be held on IIT's
Downtown Campus, will begin December 11. Experts from
the Stuart School are available for interviews about
the program.
What makes a trader successful? Professor David
Norman, director of the market technology
program at IIT's Center for Law and Financial Markets,
is collecting data on trader activity to learn how
decisions are made. "The Trader DNA" project
uses behavioral finance theories and techniques to
reveal electronic traders' psychological profile in
order to determine what makes them successful. Norman
says, "This is the first time anyone has tried
to quantify what makes a trader on electronic markets
successful." Professor Norman, the author of
Professional Electronic Trading
and Trading at the Speed of
Light, is available for interviews.
November is Native American Heritage Month.
American museums have been trying to determine the
origins and appropriate resting places for their Native
American collections since passage of the Native American
Graves Protection and Repatriation Act of 1990. The
law requires federal agencies and museums receiving
federal funds to identify the origin and cultural
affiliation of their Native American cultural items
and then "to expeditiously return some of them
to culturally-affiliated Indian tribes." Professor
Sarah Harding,
co- director of Chicago-Kent's Institute for Law and
the Humanities, can discuss the legal issues involved
in the repatriation of Native American cultural property.
At the Downtown Campus:
November 18: Certificate in Healthcare Marketing
Communication Open House. Prospective students
are invited to meet the faculty and learn more about
Stuart Graduate School of Business' certificate program
in healthcare marketing communication. The four-course
certificate program is designed for those now working
in the field of marketing who want to develop additional
expertise around the issues in healthcare communication.
Practitioners work in hospitals, pharmaceutical companies,
HMOs, clinic networks and other health care organizations.
The open house begins at 5:30 p.m. For more information,
contact Professor John Tarini at (312) 906-6535.
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.
November 20: Chicago-Kent Minority Student Open
House. Student representatives from the Asian
Pacific Law Students Association, the Black Law Students
Association, the Hispanic Law Students Association,
and the South Asian Law Students Association will
discuss making the transition to law school and their
experiences at Chicago-Kent. The open house starts
at 5:30 p.m. For more information, call (312) 906-5020.
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