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 13, 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/
John Kerry's got one; George Bush needs one. Both presidential
candidates' Web sites include privacy policies that detail how
visitors' personal information can and will be used. However,
only Kerry's privacy statement and practices on Kerry's site have
been verified. What does that mean? Chicago-Kent professor Richard
Warner is president of Standards Association for Elections
Online (SAFE), a nonprofit organization that develops standards
and practices for online campaign activity and endorses third-party
monitors who certify campaign Web sites as abiding by SAFE standards.
Professor Warner is available for interviews about SAFE and campaign
Web sites.
The U.S. Supreme Court's 2004-05 term begins October 4.
Constitutional scholar Professor Sheldon
H. Nahmod is available to discuss highlights of the High
Court's last session and key issues the justices will consider
during the new term.
Proposition 71, California's $3 billion ballot initiative
to fund human embryonic stem cell research, will go before
voters in the fall elections. Nigel Cameron, director of
IIT's Institute on Biotechnology and the Human Future, is available
for interviews about stem cell research and the California proposal.
IIT's Access to Justice project is a statewide legal services
resource for low-income residents of Illinois. The project provides
people who are not represented by an attorney in certain legal
matters with the tools they need to defend themselves in a court
of law. The project is entering a new phase and pilot projects
are being launched in California and Maryland. Ronald
Staudt, a Chicago-Kent professor and IIT associate vice
president for law, business and technology, and Chicago-Kent students
are available for interviews about the project.
It's in the job description. Changes governing overtime
pay for white-collar workers went into effect last month. Employees
who earn less than $23,660 a year automatically are entitled to
overtime pay. The new Department of Labor rules include guidelines
to help businesses determine which employees in other categories
are entitled to overtime based on their job descriptions. Professor
Laurie E. Leader,
an expert on wage-hour issues, can discuss which duties qualify
for overtime and which are exempt under the new rules. Professor
Leader is the author of Wages and Hours: Law & Practice.
Chicago-Kent's Family Law Clinic. Cook County residents
with domestic relations disputes, including matters of legal separation,
divorce, child support, child custody, visitation and guardianships,
may qualify for representation through Chicago-Kent's Family Law
Clinic. Spanish- and Chinese-speaking attorneys are available.
Clients will pay on a sliding-scale fee basis, depending on their
financial circumstances. Students assigned to cases will work
under the supervision of Professor Ira
Feldman. He is available for interviews about the program.
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.
Downtown Campus Events:
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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