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 11, 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 said it would hear several cases regarding
the display of the Ten Commandments on government property.
It is the first time in nearly 25 years the justices will review
whether such displays violate the First Amendment's Establishment
Clause, which mandates the separation of church and state. The
cases involve displays in a school, a county courthouse and a
state capitol building. The court refused last week to hear an
appeal by former Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore, who lost his
job for defying a federal order to remove a Ten Commandments monument
he installed in the Alabama state courthouse. Constitutional scholar
Professor Sheldon H. Nahmod
is available to discuss the separation of church and state, highlights
of the Supreme Court's last session and key issues the justices
will consider during the new term.
The defense phase of the Scott Peterson murder trial has been
postponed until October 18. The judge cited "legal issues"
for the delay in the trial that began June 1. Peterson is accused
of the murders of his wife and their unborn child, whose bodies
washed ashore near San Francisco in April of 2003. Defense attorney
and professor Richard S.
Kling is available for interviews about the case.
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 only weeks 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.
The late actor Christopher Reeve was a staunch supporter of
California's Proposition 71, the Embryonic Stem Cell Research
and Cure Act. The measure will go before voters in next month's
elections. If passed, Proposition 71 would allot $3 billion to
fund human embryonic stem cell research. 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.
U.S. foreign policy is among the key issues in the presidential
elections. Professor Henry
H. Perritt, Jr., is available for interviews about the
recent elections in Afghanistan, the war in Iraq and other elements
of U.S. foreign policy.
The National Basketball Association's 2004-05 pre-season has
begun. Adjunct professor and sports law expert Eldon L.
Ham is the author of Play Masters: From Sellouts to Lockouts:
An Unauthorized History of the NBA. Professor Ham is available
for interviews.
The Federal Reserve's policymakers will meet again on November
10 to consider interest rates. Will the Fed continue to increase
interest rates? Professor Robert
Laurent of Stuart Graduate School of Business is a former
economist with the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. He can discuss
what the Fed can do to help revitalize the economy.
JP Morgan Chase & Company last month announced its intent
to buy Highbridge Capital Management, a hedge fund company.
The acquisition is expected to give the nation's second-largest
bank a larger share in the rapidly growing hedge fund sector.
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.
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 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.
November 3: Jaime Alonso Gomez, dean of Monterrey Tech's
Graduate School of Business Administration and Leadership (EGADE-ITESM)
in Mexico, will address the topic, "Strategic Thinking and
Business Vision in the New Economy: Strategy and Leadership for
Companies in Emerging Economies." Established in 1943, EGADE-ITESM
offers graduate management education programs at both master's
and doctoral levels. The 90-minute program, which is free and
open to the public, will begin at 4:30 p.m. It is presented by
IIT's Stuart Graduate School of Business. For more information,
contact Rafael Alvarado, (312) 906-6573, or alvarado@stuart.iit.edu.
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