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 26, 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/
At the Downtown Campus:
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 27: "A Landmark Supreme Court Case?:
The Legacy of Brown v. Board of Education"
is the focus of a roundtable discussion on the 1954
U.S. Supreme Court case that outlawed racial segregation
in public schools. Participants include Professor
Michael Klarman of the University of Virginia
Law School and author of From
Jim Crow to Civil Rights: The
Supreme Court & the Struggle for Racial Equality,
and Professor Gerald Rosenberg of the University
of Chicago and author of The
Hollow Hope: Can Courts Bring About Social Change?
The program, which is free and open to the public,
will begin at noon in the Gov. Richard B. Ogilvie
Auditorium.
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.
May 23: Chicago-Kent College of Law Commencement.
The Honorable Diane P. Wood, judge of the United States
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and senior
lecturer at the University of Chicago, will deliver
the commencement address. Commencement will be held
in the Arie Crown Theater at McCormick Place Lakeside
Center, 2301 S. Lake Shore Drive, in Chicago. Approximately
275 students are expected to receive Juris Doctor
degrees and 50 Master of Laws degrees will be conferred.
June 19: Stuart Graduate School of Business Commencement.
Alvin Gorman, chairman of Power Contracting and Engineering,
will deliver the keynote address. Gorman is a member
of the Stuart School board of overseers and a member
of the Illinois Institute of Technology's board of
trustees. Commencement exercises will be held on the
IIT Main Campus in the Hermann Union Building (HUB),
3241 S. Federal Street in Chicago.
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