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 27, 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/
Banned Books Week – Celebrating the Freedom to Read.
Banned Books Week was established in 1982 to call attention to
freedom of expression issues related to banned and challenged
books in America. A challenge is an attempt to remove or restrict
materials based upon the objections of a person or group. A banning
is the removal of those materials. Banned Books Week is observed
the last week in September and is co-sponsored by the American
Library Association, the American Booksellers Association, the
American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression, the Association
of American Publishers, the American Society of Journalists and
Authors and the National Association of College Stores. Chicago-Kent
experts are available to discuss censorship issues.
The USA Patriot Act includes provisions that allow the
government to gain information about materials accessed by library
patrons. Dean Harold J. Krent
is available to discuss the USA Patriot Act.
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.
The Olympic torch in Athens has been extinguished for nearly
a month, but the controversy surrounding the men's gymnastic
competition is heating up. The Court of Arbitration for Sport
is hearing the appeal from a South Korean gymnast who lost the
gold medal to American Paul Hamm in the men's all-around competition
because of a scoring error by judges. Sports law attorney and
adjunct professor Eldon L. Ham is the author of The
100 Greatest Sports Blunders of All Time. Professor Ham is
available for interviews.
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.
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 have been certified.
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 Access to Justice project is a statewide legal services
resource for low-income residents of Illinois. The project
uses technology to provide individuals who are not represented
by an attorney the tools to defend themselves in court in certain
legal matters. 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, is available for interviews
about the project, as are Chicago-Kent students who are working
on the project.
How does the chief information security officer help a corporation
comply with Sarbanes-Oxley Act requirements? The law was enacted
two years ago, in the aftermath of several high-profile business
scandals, as a way to restore investor confidence in publicly
traded companies. Under provisions of the law, CEOs and CFOs face
civil and criminal penalties and fines for filing inaccurate corporate
statements. Although chief information security officers are not
directly accountable for the accuracy of the information contained
in filings required by Sarbanes-Oxley, they are responsible for
implementing policies, practices, and systems necessary to ensure
compliance with the law. 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 to discuss the role of chief information
security officers with regard to Sarbanes-Oxley compliance. O'Bryan
is also available to discuss Chicago-Kent's new CPE Certificate
Program in Technology Law.
Hedge funds now account for 25 percent of trading volume on
the New York Stock Exchange. What are hedge funds and how
do they work? Professor Keith
Black of Stuart Graduate School of Business' Center for
Financial Markets is the author of a new book, Managing a Hedge
Fund. Professor Black can discuss why investors are attracted
to hedge funds in this market environment, strategies hedge funds
use to make money in up and down markets, and how the growth in
hedge fund investments affects the stock and bond markets.
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 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 15: The imperial presidency and just wars is the
theme of a discussion by noted author and scholar Garry Wills.
An adjunct professor of history at Northwestern University, Wills
is the author of twenty books on various topics including U.S.
Presidents Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Lincoln, Reagan and
Nixon. His book, Lincoln at Gettysburg, received the 1993
Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction. Prominent political historian
Professor Richard John of the University of Illinois at
Chicago will comment. The program, which begins at 11:30 a.m.,
will be held in the Gov. Richard B. Ogilvie Auditorium. Free and
open to the public, it is the first in an ongoing series of events
sponsored by Chicago-Kent's Institute for Law and the Humanities
addressing the idea of the imperial presidency. For more information
call, (312) 906-5192.
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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