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-- April 25, 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/advisory.
May is Older Americans Month: The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Administration
on Aging has selected “Celebrate Long-Term Living” as this year’s theme. Professor
Howard C. Eglit is an expert on law and aging and the
author of a new book, Elders on Trial: Age and Ageism in the American Legal
System. He has served on the board of the Illinois chapter of the National Academy of Elder
Law Attorneys and on the advisory committee for the Buehler Center on Aging, McGaw Medical Center,
Northwestern University. Professor Eglit is available for interviews about his book and the interaction
between the U.S. legal system and the aging American population.
Iraq has its first democratically elected government in more than 50 years. The interim
National Assembly this week approved the appointments for 27 of the 36 cabinet ministers proposed
by Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari. The vote, which came ironically on the birthday of former
Iraqi president Saddam Hussein, ends a three-month delay in forming a new government. U.S. officials
were concerned that the inability to name a cabinet following the January elections might serve
to strengthen the insurgency. Leaders must now fill the remaining cabinet posts. They must also
draft and approve a new constitution. Rend Rahim Francke, Iraq’s ambassador to the
United States, will participate in a May 17 symposium at Chicago-Kent on constitutional negotiations
and conflict management in her country. (See below.)
Beqe Beqaj, a Kosovar Albanian, went on trial this week in the Hague. U.N. prosecutors have
charged him with interfering with the administration of justice by “threatening, intimidating,
offering a bribe to or otherwise interfering with witnesses” scheduled to testify in the trials
of Fatmir Limaj, Haradin Bala and Isak Musliu. The trio has pleaded innocent to charges of committing
war crimes against both Serb and ethnic Albanian civilians at the Lapusnik prison camp in 1998.
Chicago-Kent professor Henry H. Perritt, Jr., recently
returned from Kosovo where he collected material for a book he is writing on the Kosovo Liberation
Army (KLA). Professor Perritt’s book will analyze the KLA insurgency and its impact against
the backdrop of the theoretical literature about insurgencies. The book will also relate human interest
stories about the insurgency. Professor Perritt is available for interviews.
The Michael Jackson trial continues. The pop singer is accused of child molestation, conspiracy
and illegal use of alcohol with a minor. Chicago-Kent professors Douglas
W. Godfrey and Richard S. Kling are available
for interviews. Professor Godfrey is a former prosecutor in the Kings County District Attorney's
office, where he served in the sex crimes and homicide bureaus. Professor Kling is a criminal defense
attorney who teaches evidence and forensic sciences courses.
Chicago-Kent’s Immigration Law Clinic is seeking those who need legal assistance with
immigration, asylum and nationality matters. The clinic is supervised by Professor Matthew
I. Bernstein, whose practice includes advising corporations, nonprofit organizations and
individuals in all areas of immigration law, including professionals; aliens of extraordinary ability
in the sciences, arts and business; individuals seeking immigration benefits for family members;
asylees; and individuals threatened with removal from the United States by the government. Professor
Bernstein is available for interviews about the Immigration Law Clinic.
Downtown Campus Events:
April 28-29: Cono R. Namorato, director of the Internal Revenue Service’s Office of
Professional Responsibility, will deliver the luncheon keynote address on the first day of Chicago-Kent’s
24th annual Federal Tax Institute. The two-day program will review recent developments in
tax law. Participants will also discuss international provisions included in the American Jobs Creation
Act of 2004, corporate taxation and executive compensation issues. For more information, call (312)
906-5090 or visit the Web site: http://www.kentlaw.edu/depts/cle/fedtax/index.html.
April 29: “Civil Liberties in Wartime: Adams, Lincoln, Wilson & FDR” is
the topic of a lecture by Geoffrey R. Stone. Professor Stone is the Harry Kalven, Jr., Distinguished
Service Professor of Law at the University of Chicago and the author of the new book Perilous
Times: Free Speech in Wartime. Commentary will be provided by Professor Eric Arnesen,
chair of the University of Illinois at Chicago history department. The program, which is free and
open to the public, will begin at 2 p.m. The lecture is part of an ongoing series sponsored by Chicago-Kent’s
Institute for Law and the Humanities. For more information, contact Professor Daniel Hamilton, dhamil3@kentlaw.edu.
May 13-14: “The Future of Legal Research.” Have the ways lawyers conduct research
changed significantly in the last five years? What research tools and resources will lawyers be
using in the next five years? More importantly, are law schools teaching students the skills they
will need? This two-day symposium will feature a roundtable discussion with legal writing faculty
and librarians from several Illinois law schools and presentation of survey results on lawyers'
research needs and habits. The program includes a presentation by Professor Robert Berring
of the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, who created the award-winning video series
"Legal Research for the 21st Century." For more information, visit the Web site: http://www.kentlaw.edu/academics/lrw/future/.
May 17: “Federalism as Strategy: Canadian and Other Consitutional Approaches to Managing
Ethnic Conflict in Iraq” is the theme of a half-day symposium. Rend Rahim Francke,
Iraqi ambassador to the U.S., will deliver the keynote address and participate in a panel discussion
on key issues and factional tensions involving Iraqi constitutional negotiations. Other participants
include Chicago-Kent professors Bartram Brown and Sarah Harding; Professors John
McGarry and Christian Leuprecht of the Centre for Intergovernmental Relations at Queen's
University; Professor Sujit Choudry, University of Toronto Law School; Professors Mohamed
Ibrahim and Daniel Rothenberg of DePaul University’s International Human Rights
Law Institute; McGill University Professor Raffaele Iacovino; and Professor Jim McHugh
of Roosevelt University. The symposium is co-sponsored by Chicago-Kent's Global Law and Policy Initiative,
the Canadian Consulate in Chicago, the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations, and Roosevelt University.
The program is free and open to the public, but reservations are required. For more information,
contact Sonjia Kelley at skelley@kentlaw.edu or (312) 906-5134.
May 22: Chicago-Kent College of Law Commencement. Approximately 300 students are expected
to receive Juris Doctor degrees. Commencement will be held in the Arie Crown Theater at McCormick
Place Lakeside Center, 2301 S. Lake Shore Drive, in Chicago.
June 3: 24th annual Conference on Not-For-Profit Organizations. This one-day seminar is
presented by a faculty of leading organization executives, attorneys, accountants and government
officials. Program highlights include “Not-For Profit Activities in the Age of Terrorism,”
“How to Prepare and What to Exp ect from an Audit,” new developments in taxation, legislation
and regulation of non-profits, labor and employment issues affecting not-for-profits, and an update
from the office of the Illinois Attorney General. For more information, call (312) 906-5090.
June 18: Stuart Graduate School of Business Commencement. Commencement exercises will be
held on the IIT Main Campus in the Hermann Union Building (HUB), 3241 S. Federal Street in Chicago.
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