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-- February 9, 2004--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/
Eurex US, formally known as U.S. Futures Exchange
(USFE), began trading February 8. The Chicago-based,
fully electronic exchange offers futures and options
on U.S. Treasury securities. Professor David
Norman, director of market technology at IIT's
Center for Law and Financial Markets, is available
for interviews about USFE.
The Sierra Club is considering whether to formally
ask U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia
to recuse himself from hearing a case involving Vice
President Dick Cheney. The Sierra Club and Judicial
Watch filed suit to force Cheney to release documents
related to his energy task force meetings. The vice
president has appealed a judge's ruling to produce
the documents and, in December, the Supreme Court
agreed to hear the case. Three weeks later, Cheney
and Scalia went to Louisiana on a duck-hunting trip
as the guest of Wallace Carline, owner of an oil services
company. Experts are available to discuss the legal
ethics issues.
The first same-sex marriages could take place in
Massachusetts as early as mid-May. The state's
highest court ruled last week that only marriages,
not civil unions, would be constitutional. Some legislators
have vowed to introduce an amendment to the state
constitution that would define marriage as only a
union between heterosexual couples. However, Massachusetts
voters would not be able to vote on the amendment
until 2006. Adjunct professor Vincent Samar,
who teaches courses on sexual orientation and the
law, is available for interviews.
A federal judge has ruled that the NFL's draft eligibility
rule violates antitrust laws. Ohio State football
player Maurice Clarett filed a lawsuit to enter the
NFL's 2004 draft, a year before he would have been
eligible. Clarett was suspended from Ohio State for
violating NCAA rules. The NFL prohibits players from
entering the draft until they have been out of high
school for three seasons. Meanwhile, Heisman Trophy
candidate Larry Fitzgerald this week announced that
he will forgo his junior year at the University of
Pittsburgh to enter NFL draft in April. Adjunct professor
and sports attorney Eldon L. Ham, the author
of The 100 Greatest Sports
Blunders of All Time, is available for interviews.
Donald Trump is the star of TV's newest reality
show. "The Apprentice" gives sixteen
would-be entrepreneurs a shot at a year-long, $250,000
job with the real estate mogul – or at being
fired at the end of an episode. Stuart Graduate School
of Business professor George
Kalidonis is the Coleman Clinical Professor of
Management and academic director of the Entrepreneurship
MBA program. Professor Kalidonis is available for
interviews about "The Apprentice" and Stuart's
Entrepreneurship program.
Brown v. Board of Education. This year
marks the fiftieth anniversary of the landmark U.S.
Supreme Court case that ultimately outlawed public
school segregation. Experts are available to discuss
the legal impact of the Brown v. Board of Education
decision.
Presidential candidate Howard Dean has revolutionized
the way politicians use the Internet for their campaigns.
Professor Richard
Warner is president of Standards Association
for Elections Online (SAFE), a nonprofit organization
that develops standards and practices for online campaign
activity. Professor Warner is available for interviews.
American law students are invited to apply for Chicago-Kent's
summer abroad program in Mexico with Tec de Monterrey,
one of Mexico's leading private universities. The
program, which runs June 14 through July 28, 2004,
will give U.S. law students an opportunity to study
Mexican law and U.S./Mexican legal issues. May 10
is the deadline for applications, which are available
on the program's Web site at
www.kentlaw.edu/glpi/mexico.
At the Downtown Campus:
February 19: Chicago-Kent's Alumnae/i Association
Reception. Three Chicago-Kent graduates who currently
serve as bar association presidents will be celebrated.The
Honorable Elizabeth Budzinski '88 (Women's
Bar Association of Illinois), Michael Demetrio
'79 (Chicago Bar Association), and Terrence
Lavin '83 (Illinois State Bar Association) are
the guests of honor at the reception which begins
at 5:30 p.m. For more information, call Jennifer Greenberg
at (312) 906-5245.
February 24: The New Federal Communications Rules
for Media Ownership: Resurfacing of an Old Controversy.
Stuart Graduate School of Business senior lecturer
Kamyar Jabbari will discuss the impact of the FCC
decision to relax rules on television station ownership
and "cross ownership" of media in the same
market. His discussion will focus on the potential
impact of the new rules on free speech and political
landscape; the confusion regarding congressional intent
in the legislation; the interpretation of the issues
by the appeals court; and potential antitrust concerns
that the new methodology proposed by FCC creates.
This program, which begins at noon, is part of the
Stuart School's Faculty Research Colloquium Series.
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