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-- April 5, 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/
National security adviser Condoleezza Rice will
testify Thursday in an open hearing of the commission
investigating the September 11 terrorist attacks against
the United States. Rice, who had met privately with
the commission, will give sworn public testimony for
the first time. President Bush and vice president
Dick Cheney will meet privately in a separate session
with the full commission. Experts are available after
Rice's remarks to discuss U.S. foreign policy and
the War on Terror.
The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear an Illinois
case that will determine whether police can use
drug-sniffing dogs during routine traffic stops. In
a 1998 case, drugs were found with the aid of a drug-sniffing
dog in a car driven by a motorist who was stopped
for speeding. The Illinois State Supreme Court ruled
that the use of the dog was an unjustified expansion
of the traffic stop. The justices will decide whether
Fourth Amendment protections against unreasonable
searches and seizures extend to the use of the dogs
-- even if there is no reason to suspect there are
drugs present. Chicago-Kent dean and constitutional
scholar Harold
J. Krent is available for interviews about
the case.
Overtime pay rules. Governor Rod Blagojevich
last week signed legislation that will protect thousands
of Illinois workers from being classified as salaried
workers, causing them to lose overtime pay. The governor's
action exempts Illinois from proposed changes in the
1938 federal law governing overtime pay for white-collar
workers. Professor Martin
H. Malin, director of Chicago-Kent's Institute
for Law and the Workplace, is available to discuss
overtime rules.
The major league baseball season has begun.
Adjunct professor and sports attorney Eldon L.
Ham says it is time for Congress to intervene
in the league's steroid problem. "Racehorses
have been tested for drugs since the 1920's, the NBA
saved itself from a scourge of drug problems with
stringent testing policies over the last twenty years,
and the NFL has already taken strikes to ban the steroid
monster. Yet major league baseball has passively embraced
steroids, feigning "shock" while dragging
its feet on the real solution," says Ham.
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.
May 10 is the deadline for American law students
interested in applying 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.
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.
Chicago-Kent's Low-Income Taxpayer Clinic is
seeking taxpayers who have disputes with the IRS.
Those who meet certain income criteria may qualify
for free assistance with their tax disputes, including
collection matters, audits, appeals and litigation
before the Internal Revenue Service, United States
Tax Court, and United States District Court. Students
work under the supervision of Professor Jonathan
Decatorsmith. The program Web site at www.kentlaw.edu/academics/clinic/tax
has information about the program. Professor Decatorsmith
is available for interviews about the program, but
is unable to answer media queries for current tax
filing stories.
At the Downtown Campus:
April 6: "Databases, Open Source and the Biopharmaceutical
Industry" is the topic of a lecture by Duke
University Law School Professor Arti Rai. This
program is part of the Chicago Intellectual Property
Colloquium Series and is co-sponsored by Chicago-Kent
and Loyola University Chicago School of Law. For more
information, contact Patricia O'Neal at (312) 906-5128.
April 15: Chicago-Kent Centennial Lecture. John
Searle, one of the world's best known and influential
philosophers will address the topic, "The
Ontology of Civilization." Professor Searle
currently is Mills Professor of the Philosophy of
Mind and Language at the University of California
at Berkeley. Professor Searle's insights have been
used widely in legal scholarship in the area of law
and language, and have contributed to scholarship
on norms, social meanings, and the expressive role
of law. His work has influenced linguistics, psychology,
sociology, and computer science in addition to philosophy.
Professor Searle received his Ph.D. in philosophy
at Oxford, where he studied under John Austin, one
of the founders of the "ordinary language"
approach to philosophy. The lecture, which is free
and open to the public, will begin at 3 p.m. in the
Gov. Richard B. Ogilvie Auditorium. For more information,
please call (312) 906-5005.
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 26: "How Big is Beautiful? The European
Union at 25+: Will it Work?" is the topic
of presentation by Austrian Consul General and constitutional
scholar Elisabeth Kehrer. She will discuss
the expansion of the European Union to 25-member states
scheduled for May 1, 2004. For more information, please
call (312) 906-5134.
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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