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-- October 4, 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 U.S. Supreme Court's 2004-05 term began today. The
justices heard oral arguments in cases involving a water dispute
between the states of Colorado and Kansas, federal sentencing
guidelines and the right of an indigent criminal defendant to
an appointed appellate attorney. The court refused to hear an
appeal by former Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore, who lost his
job for defying a federal order to remove a monument he installed
in the state courthouse. The justices also refused to hear cases
involving the detention of Saddam Hussein and telemarketers' challenge
to the "Do Not Call" list. 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 Check Clearing for the 21st Century Act (Check 21) goes
into effect October 28. The new law changes the way banks
clear checks. Banks will be allowed to process checks electronically,
instead of shipping paper checks for clearing. As a result, checks
that normally took days to clear now will be processed in a matter
of hours. Experts are available for interviews about Check 21.
The elections are a month away. Voters and supporters
are visiting candidates' Web sites for news and information. 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.
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.
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.
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.
Downtown Campus Events:
October 6: "American Power and Global Security"
is the topic of a dialogue to take place at Chicago-Kent as part
of "The People Speak" series. ABC News correspondent
Jim Avila will moderate a panel discussion among political
commentator Aaron Freeman; Leon Fuerth, national
security adviser to former Vice President Al Gore and research
professor of international affairs at George Washington University's
Elliot School of International Affairs; Lawrence Korb,
senior fellow at the Center for American Progress and senior adviser
to the Center for Defense Information; and United Republican Fund
chairman Joseph Morris. "The People Speak" is
an ongoing series of discussions throughout the country that analyzes
America's role in the world. The program was initiated by the
United Nations Foundation and is co-sponsored by ABC News to encourage
dialogue on today's global issues. The program begins at 6 p.m.
For more information, call (312) 906-5134.
October 14: Conference on Strategies for Combating Human Trafficking
Within the U.S., Canada and Mexico. Policymakers, government
officials and scholars will examine the political, social and
economic issues related to immigration in North America. Canadian
Senator Jerry Grafstein, co-chair of the Canada-U.S. Inter-Parliamentary
Group, will deliver the luncheon keynote address. The conference
is hosted by Chicago-Kent, the Consul-General of Mexico and the
Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade.
It is co-sponsored by the American Bar Association Section on
International Law, the International and Foreign Law Committee
of the Chicago Bar Association, and the Greater Chicago Chapter
of the United Nations Association of the USA. Registration is
requested. For more information or to register, contact Nena Heard,
(312) 906-5134 or nheard@kentlaw.edu.
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 19: Bruce S. Raynor, general president of UNITE
HERE, will deliver the fifth annual Distinguished Labor Leader
Lecture. UNITE HERE was formed on July 8, 2004, as a result
of the merger of UNITE (formerly the Union of Needletrades, Textiles
and Industrial Employees) and HERE (Hotel Employees and Restaurant
Employees International Union). The union represents more than
440,000 members in North America. The lecture, which is free and
open to the public, will begin at noon in the Gov. Richard B.
Ogilvie Auditorium. The Distinguished Labor Leader Lecture series
presents addresses by leading labor leaders on critical issues
in the workplace. The program is co-sponsored by the Chicago Federation
of Labor, AFL-CIO and Chicago-Kent's Institute for Law and the
Workplace. For more information, please 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 Clerks 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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