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 18, 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 defense phase of the Scott Peterson murder trial has begun.
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 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.
California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has given his support
to Proposition 71, the state's 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 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 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.
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. His phone number is (312) 759-7610.
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.
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.
Downtown Campus Events:
October 20: "Torture and Positive Law: Jurisprudence
for the White House" is the topic of the 2004 Centennial
Lecture by Jeremy Waldron. He is the Maurice and Hilda
Friedman Professor and director of Columbia University's Center
for Law and Philosophy. The lecture is free and open to the public.
It will begin at 3 p.m. For more information, call (312) 906-5132.
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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