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-- November 2, 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/
November 2 is Election Day. A politically diverse group
of Chicago-Kent students will gather at Jefferson Tap & Grille,
325 North Jefferson Street in Chicago, to watch the election returns
come in. The viewing party will begin at 9 p.m. Students will
be available for interviews. For more information, contact Chicago-Kent
student Simon Rusk, (312) 399-2835.
The 2000 presidential vote tally was contested for several
months after the election. Constitutional scholars are available
to discuss Gore v. Florida and any legal issues related
to the 2004 election.
Monitoring the polls. Chicago-Kent faculty and students
are among those who have volunteered to monitor the polls in Illinois
and other states. They will be available Wednesday for interviews
about their experiences.
The recent illness of 80-year-old Chief Justice William Rehnquist
has heightened speculation about appointments to the U.S. Supreme
Court from a Bush or Kerry presidency. Constitutional scholar
Sheldon H. Nahmod
will participate in a November 4 program that will examine the
impact of the 2004 election on the direction of the Supreme Court.
(See below.)
Voters and supporters are visiting candidates' Web sites for
updated 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.
Proposition 71, the Embryonic Stem Cell Research and Cure
Act, will be considered by California voters. If passed, the
measure 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.
Downtown Campus Events:
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.
November 4: "The Coming Battle over the Courts and the
Constitution: Politics, Law, or Both?" Constitutional
scholar Sheldon H. Nahmod and Roger Pilon, founder and director
of the CATO Institute, will debate the impact of the 2004 presidential
election on the composition of the U.S. Supreme Court. This program,
which is free and open to the public, will begin at 4 p.m. in
Room C-50. For more information, contact Caroline Cascino, (312)
906-5190, or ccascino@kentlaw.edu.
November 5-6: "Must We Choose Between Rationality and
Irrationality?" is the topic of the two-day Chicago-Kent
Law Review symposium. Leading scholars will discuss a wide
range of topics, including behavioral finance, rate choice vs.
rational choice, rationality, animal topics, evolution and more.
The symposium is free, but registration is required. For more
information, contact Cheryl Dean, (312) 906-5124, or cdean@kentlaw.edu.
November 9: 2004 Chicago-Kent College of Law Annual All Alumnae/i
Awards Luncheon. The law school's Alumnae/i Association will
honor members of the legal community. (EDITORS PLEASE NOTE: The
names of Chicago-Kent graduates are followed by the year their
degrees were earned.) Chicago-Kent graduates receiving Professional
Achievement Awards are retired Cook County Circuit Court Judge
Bernard B. Wolfe ‘37 and Dennis Schoville ‘73.
Warren E. Eagle will receive a professional achievement
award for a non-Chicago-Kent alumnus. Distinguished Service awards
will go to alumni James Kaplan ‘71 and Peter Birnbaum
‘83. Grace Hong ‘98 will receive the Young Alumna
Award.
Alumnae Jane Bohman ‘93 and Sherizaan Minwalla
‘02 will receive the Abraham Lincoln Marovitz Public Interest
Award. The award is named for the late U.S. District Court Senior
Judge Abraham Lincoln Marovitz, who graduated from what is now
Chicago-Kent in 1925. At least two alumnae/i awards – one
to a recent graduate – are presented each year. The award
honors exemplary work that "most closely reflects the character,
life and work" of Judge Marovitz. The event will be held
in the Red Lacquer Room of the Palmer House Hilton, 17 East Monroe
in Chicago.
November 12: "Trends in Employment Law and the Public
Sector Workplace" is the topic of the keynote address
by the Honorable Rebecca R. Pallmeyer, U.S. District Court judge
for the Northern District of Illinois, at Chicago-Kent's 20th
annual Illinois Public Sector Labor Relations Law Program. The
program is sponsored by Chicago-Kent's Institute for Law and the
Workplace and co-sponsored by the Illinois Labor Relations Board
and the Illinois Educational Labor Relations Board. For more information,
call (312) 906-5090.
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