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-- May 9, 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.
Chicago-Kent was the first law school in the nation to require its students to take five
semesters of legal writing courses before they graduate. The law school’s emphasis on effective
analytical, research, and communications skills has served as a model for other institutions. Chicago-Kent
will host a two-day symposium this week on “The Future of Legal Research.” (See below.)
Professor Mary Rose Strubbe, director of Chicago-Kent’s
Legal Research and Writing Program, is available for interviews about the curriculum and the symposium.
She can also discuss Effective Transactional Writing, a one-day program for practicing lawyers.
Recent media stories about nurses’ overtime and labor contracts, new hospital construction
and the reallocation of state funds have brought attention to health care issues in Illinois and
Cook County. Professor Eliezer
Geisler, director of IIT's Center for the Management of Medical Technology, is available
to discuss the roles of the state and the county in health care delivery.
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 science courses.
The U.S. Supreme Court still has several rulings on key legal issues to hand down before the
term ends. Professor Sheldon H. Nahmod is available
for interviews about key decisions and themes of the 2004-05 term.
More than two million people have been displaced as a result of war in the Sudanese region of
Darfur. The U.N. Security Council has passed a resolution on bringing to justice those suspected
of atrocities and genocide. The leaders of Egypt, Sudan, Libya, Chad and Nigeria soon will meet
to discuss ways of dealing with the aftermath of conflict in the western Sudan. Lydia
Lazar, assistant dean for international law and policy development, is one of the co-authors
of "Wind of Madness", a report on how to assist internally displaced persons in the Sudan,
published by the Dartmouth Lawyers Association’s Darfur Crisis Committee. Dean Lazar is available
for interviews about the report, which is available at http://www.dla.org/downloads/darfur2005.doc.
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. Professor Eglit is available for interviews about his book and the interaction between
the U.S. legal system and the aging American population.
Downtown Campus Events:
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,
former 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 of the 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 Sarah Gillooly at (312) 906-5134.
May 22: Chicago-Kent College of Law Commencement. Attorney Thomas A. Demetrio, of
the Chicago law firm of Corboy & Demetrio, will deliver the commencement address. Commencement
exercises begin at 2 p.m. and will be held in the Lakeside Center at McCormick Place, 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 Expect 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 17: Effective Transactional Writing. Chicago-Kent College of Law will present a day-long,
interactive seminar to help lawyers to write more effectively. Participants will learn how to use
“plain English” to make documents less ambiguous and more concise and straightforward.
The small-group, hands-on training includes audience analysis tips and writing and editing tools.
For more information, call (312) 906-5090 or visit the Web site: http://www.kentlaw.edu/depts/cle/.
June 18: Stuart Graduate School of Business Commencement. Robert M. Janowiak, executive
director of the International Engineering Consortium will deliver the commencement address. Commencement
exercises begin at 11 a.m. and will be held on the IIT Main Campus in the Hermann Union Building
(HUB), 3241 S. Federal Street, in Chicago.
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