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-- March 22, 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/
Pledge of Allegiance case. The U.S. Supreme
Court will hear oral arguments this week in a controversial
case regarding the recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance
in public schools. The Justices will determine whether
a school district that requires teachers to lead willing
students in reciting the Pledge of Allegiance –
which includes the words "under God" --
endorses religion in violation of the Establishment
Clause of the constitution. 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."
Justice Scalia has recused himself from hearing
the case involving the Pledge of Allegiance. However,
he has refused to remove himself from a case involving
his long-time friend, Vice President Dick Cheney.
In 2001, the Sierra Club and Judicial Watch filed
suit to force Cheney to release documents related
to his energy task force meetings. The vice president
appealed a judge's ruling to produce the documents.
Last 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.
Nation Building in Kosovo. More than two dozen
people were killed last week in violence in Kosovo.
Ironically, it was five years ago this month that
NATO Secretary-General Javier Solana gave the formal
go-ahead for air strikes against Serbian targets following
the failure of Kosovo peace talks. Chicago-Kent professor
Henry H. Perritt,
Jr., was in Kosovo last week meeting with
leaders in the public and private sectors about IIT
student projects designed to help build a model democracy,
rule of law and a market economy. Professor Perritt
is available for interviews about his experiences
in Kosovo, the IIT projects, and what lies ahead for
the region. He is also available to discuss a symposium
to be held at Chicago-Kent next month that will bring
scholars and policymakers together to discuss final
status negotiations mandated by U.N. Security Council
Resolution 1244, which authorized U.N. intervention
in Kosovo.
Corporate executives are under federal order to
certify their companies' financial statements.
CEOs and CFOs of companies covered by recent changes
in the Securities and Exchange Commission's requirements
face civil and criminal penalties and fines for filing
false or inaccurate statements. How can executives
verify the integrity of information they receive and
disseminate? Stuart Graduate School of Business professor
Paul R. Prabhaker, who is working with
organizations on information integrity issues, is
available for interviews.
Brown v. Board of Education. This
year marks the 50th 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.
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. Does art imitate life?
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.
The Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) and IIT's
Center for Financial Markets are offering two
certificate programs in market technology to the general
public. Electronic Trading and Discovering New Markets
are 72-hour programs taught by instructors from the
CME and the Center for Financial Markets at the Mercantile
Exchange's new GLOBEX Learning Center in Chicago.
GLOBEX, the world's first training facility dedicated
solely to electronic trading, is designed to help
current open outcry traders make the transition to
electronic trading through a comprehensive program
that includes simulated trading stations, education,
training and support. Professor David
Norman, director of market technology at the
Center for Financial Markets, is available for interviews
about the courses. Professor Norman is the author
of Trading at the Speed of
Light and Professional Electronic Trading.
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 from 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:
April 16-17: "Final Status for Kosovo: Untying
the Gordian Knot." Distinguished academics
and policymakers will gather at this two-day program
to explore legal and policy issues that should shape
Kosovo's movement from its current status as a "political
trusteeship" under the authority of the United
Nations to a political status in which the entity
has more conventional relationships with the international
community and states in the region. The symposium
is designed to provide intellectual and policy capital
for discussions that already have begun at the technical
level and which are expected to continue during the
final status negotiations mandated by U.N. Security
Council Resolution 1244, which authorized U.N. intervention
in Kosovo. For more information, call (312) 906-5128
or visit the Web site http://operationkosovo.kentlaw.edu/symposium/symp-top-level.htm.
April 20: 26th annual Kenneth M. Piper Lecture.
Professor Catherine L. Fisk of the University of Southern
California Law School will address the topic, "Knowledge
Workers in the New Economy: From Cliché to
Contract." Presenters include: Greg W. Castle,
president, Castle and Associates and Julia A. Clark,
general counsel, International Federation of Professional
and Technical Engineers, AFL-CIO & CLC. The program
is free and open to the public. For more information,
call (312) 906-5090 or visit www.kentlaw.edu/depts/cle/piper/
on the Web.
April 29-30: 23rd annual Federal Tax Institute.
IRS Commissioner Mark W. Everson will be the Tax Institute's
luncheon speaker on April 29. The two-day program
will review recent developments in case law and rulings
in the federal income, estate and gift tax areas;
mergers and acquisitions; partnerships; and executive
compensation issues. For more information, call (312)
906-5090 or visit www.kentlaw.edu/depts/cle/fedtax/
on the Web.
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