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-- September 8, 2004--Chicago-Kent College
of Law, the Stuart Graduate School of Business and the Center
for 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/
The anniversary of the September 11 tragedy is a time for
reflection. Professor Nancy
Marder says the date should also be honored by "a
renewed call to strengthen the twin towers of our democratic system
-- voting and jury service." Professor Marder, author of
the forthcoming book Jury Process, suggests not only that
citizens mark the occasion by recommitting themselves to jury
duty when called, but that judges refocus on ensuring that trials
remain fair and unbiased. She is available for interviews.
The USA PATRIOT Act ("Uniting and Strengthening America
by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct
Terrorism") was enacted by Congress on October 26, 2001,
in response to the attacks of September 11. Key provisions of
the law have altered the way in which law enforcement and intelligence
communities gather information. Dean Harold
J. Krent is available to discuss privacy issues related
to the USA PATRIOT Act.
"September 11 changed the Internet environment,"
says Professor Richard Warner.
Professor Warner is available to discuss concerns about security,
identity verification, money laundering and evolving technology
law. He is also available to talk about Chicago-Kent's new CPE
Certificate Program in Technology Law.
The attacks curtailed activity in the U.S. financial centers.
How can banks, markets and other institutions protect their technology
infrastructure? Sharon O'Bryan, a former senior vice president,
chief information security officer and chief privacy officer at
ABN AMRO, currently is president of O'Bryan Advisory Services.
She is available for interviews.
Downtown Campus Events:
September 10: "Who Guards the Guardians?: Monitoring
and Enforcement of Charity Governance" is the topic of
a one-day symposium sponsored by the Chicago-Kent Law Review.
The program will be held from
8 a.m. to 6 p.m. in the Gov. Richard B. Ogilvie Auditorium. For
more information call, (312) 906-5190.
September 15: Major General William L. Nash, U.S.
Army (Ret.) will discuss post-conflict capabilities and lessons
learned from recent engagements in the Balkans and Iraq. Nash
is the General John W. Vessey senior fellow for conflict prevention
and director of the Center for Preventive Action at the Council
on Foreign Relations. He has extensive experience in peacekeeping
operations, both as a military commander in Bosnia-Herzegovina
and as a civilian administrator for the United Nations in Kosovo.
Nash led U.S. troops into Bosnia after the Dayton accords, and
later served as regional U.N. administrator in Kosovo. He retired
in 1998 after 34 years of service. The program is free but reservations
are requested. Please R.S.V.P. to Nena Heard at nheard@kentlaw.edu
or (312) 906-5134.
September 23: "25 Years under the Civil Service Reform
Act: The Good, the Bad and the Unfolding" is the theme
of Chicago-Kent College of Law's 22nd annual Federal Sector
Labor Relations and Labor Law Program. The morning portion
of the program features two keynote panel discussions by nationally
recognized leaders in the federal workplace. In the first panel,
John S. Carr, president of the National Air Traffic Controllers
Association, AFL-CIO; Steven R. Cohen, senior advisor for
Homeland Security, U.S. Office of Personnel Management; Peter
Eide, general counsel of the Federal Labor Relations Authority;
and Professor Joseph E. Slater of the University of Toledo
College of Law will discuss the first 25 years of the Civil Service
Reform Act of 1978. In the second panel, Ronald J. James,
chief human capital officer of the U.S. Department of Homeland
Security, and John Gage, National President of the American
Federation of Government Employees, AFL-CIO, will examine "The
Future of Federal Sector Labor Relations." The plenary session
will be followed by concurrent workshops, providing participants
with the opportunity to discuss specific issues with experts in
the federal labor relations field. Neil Anthony Gordon McPhie,
acting chairman of the U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board, will
deliver the luncheon address. Sponsored by Chicago-Kent's Institute
for Law and the Workplace, the program is the longest running
conference on federal sector and postal labor relations and labor
law held outside of Washington, D.C. For more information, call
(312) 906-5090.
September 30: 16th annual Henry Morris Lecture in International
and Comparative Law. Mirjan R. Damaska, Sterling Professor
of Law at Yale University, will address the topic, "The
Uncertain Self-Identity of International Criminal Courts."
The lecture is free and open to the public. For more information,
call (312) 906-5090.
October 25: The Honorable Arthur J. Gajarsa of the U.S.
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit will deliver the eighth
annual Charles Green Lecture in Law and Technology. Judge
Gajarsa will address the topic "The Role of En Banc Review
at the Federal Circuit." The lecture will be preceded by
the inaugural Federal Circuit roundtable. The roundtable will
become an annual event at which a panel of prominent Chicago-area
practitioners who are former Federal Circuit clerks will discuss
current developments in patent law. The two-hour roundtable will
begin at 1:30 p.m. Judge Gajarsa's lecture will begin at 4 p.m.
The lecture is free and open to the public. For more information,
call (312) 906-5090.
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