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-- January 17, 2005--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/
President George W. Bush will take the oath of office for
his second term on January 20, 2005. Dean Harold
J. Krent, the author of a forthcoming book, Presidential
Powers, is available for interviews.
U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist has
accepted President Bush's invitation to administer the oath.
The 80-year-old chief justice has sworn in each president since
Ronald Reagan took the oath in 1981. Rehnquist's part-time return
to the bench following treatment for thyroid cancer has heightened
speculation about his health and possible retirement. Constitutional
scholar and distinguished professor Sheldon
H. Nahmod is available for interviews about the Rehnquist
Court.
"The principle of ‘you break it, you own it,' "
applies in the case of the U.S.' armed intervention in Iraq,
says professor Bartram
S. Brown, co-director of Chicago-Kent's program in international
and comparative law. In a new law review article, he says, "By
invading and occupying Iraq, and then attempting to establish
a pro-U.S. democracy, the United States government accepted potentially
open-ended legal responsibility." Professor Brown is available
for interviews about issues raised in his article and about the
upcoming Iraqi elections.
Major League Baseball and its players' association have reached
a tentative agreement on a drug-testing policy that includes
random testing and suspensions without pay for players who test
positive for banned substances. The agreement still faces ratification
by the 30 teams and the union. Adjunct professor and sports attorney
Eldon L. Ham, who once called for Congress to intervene
in the league's steroid problem, calls the agreement "too
little, too late." Professor Ham is available for interviews.
Singer Michael Jackson is scheduled to go on trial January
31 on charges of child molestation, conspiracy and illegal use
of alcohol with a minor. Chicago-Kent professors Douglas
W. Godfrey and Richard
S. Kling are available to comment on the case. Professor
Godfrey is a former prosecutor in the Kings County (New York)
District Attorney's office. Professor Kling is a criminal defense
attorney.
Army Specialist Charles Graner, Jr., the first serviceman
to stand trial in the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal, has
been found guilty of conspiracy, assault, maltreatment, committing
indecent acts and dereliction of duty and sentenced to 10 years
in a military prison. Professor Michael
I. Spak, an expert on military law, is available for interviews
about the possible impact on Graner's conviction on soldiers awaiting
trial. Professor Spak is a colonel in the U.S. Army reserves.
The 2005 Sundance Film Festival will screen "Frozen Angels,"
a documentary film about assisted human reproductive technologies,
beginning January 23. "Frozen Angels" is among 16 films
in the documentary competition that will be screened at the festival
by a jury comprised of filmmakers, critics, actors, academics
and other industry professionals. Chicago-Kent distinguished professor
Lori B. Andrews
discusses the legal and ethical implications of the new reproductive
technologies in the film by award-winning filmmakers Eric Black
and Frauke Sandig. Professor Andrews also appears in an online
segment about the making of the documentary at www.makingofeuropa.net/makingclip.asp?documentID=81.
The annual Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, is considered
the premier showcase for American and international independent
film and is a major program of the Sundance Institute founded
in 1981 by actor and filmmaker Robert Redford.
The Federal Reserve's policymakers will meet in February
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.
Chicago-Kent will defend its regional championship at
the 2005 National Trial Competition at the Daley Center on
February 5-7. Teams from law schools in Illinois and Indiana will
compete. The winners of the regional competitions will compete
for the national championship in Austin, Texas, in March. Experts
are available to discuss Chicago-Kent's award-winning trial advocacy
program.
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