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--July 11, 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.
Former Kosovo prime minister Ramush Haradinaj will go on trial in January of 2007 for war crimes.
He resigned in March after being indicted by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former
Yugoslavia for atrocities against the Serbs in the late 1990s. Haradinaj, a former commander of
the KLA’s ethnic-Albanian guerrillas during the 1998-99 conflict against Serbian government
forces, voluntarily surrender to the tribunal to stand trial. He currently is in Kosovo preparing
his defense. Chicago-Kent professor Henry H. Perritt, Jr.,
has just returned from Kosovo, where he is collecting material for a book he is writing on the KLA
insurgency. Haradinaj is among those he has interviewed. Professor Perritt is available for comment.
How does the Tribunal work? Professor Bartram S.
Brown, co-director of Chicago-Kent’s Program in International and Comparative Law,
served as a law clerk at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and participated
in the 1998 Rome Diplomatic Conference on the Establishment of an International Criminal Court as
Legal Advisor to the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago.
Amazon.com turns 10: On July 16, 1995, Jeff Bezos took the book-selling business he established
in his basement to the Internet. With sales of nearly $7 billion in 2004, Amazon.com currently is
the world’s leading online retailer. In addition to books, Amazon.com sells music, videos,
toys and a variety of other retail goods through its outlets in the United States, Canada, England,
Germany, Japan, France and China. Experts from Chicago-Kent College of Law and Stuart Graduate School
of Business are available for interviews about Amazon.com.
Online auctions and other third-party sales account for more than 25 percent of Amazon.com’s
revenues. Each year, Internet auction fraud on a number of sites costs American consumers approximately
$5 million. The most prevalent complaints involve identity theft, misrepresented merchandise or
undelivered goods. How can consumers protect themselves? Students in Chicago-Kent’s Honors
Scholars Program collaborated with the City of Chicago Department of Consumer Services and AT&T
to create “You Don't Know Auctions!”, an interactive Internet game to educate the public
about online auctions and to caution them about the dangers of auction fraud. The Web address for
the game is www.youdontknowauctions.com.
Dean Harold J. Krent is available for interviews about
auction fraud and “You Don’t Know Auctions!”.
The 76th annual Major League Baseball All-Star Game will be played July 12 at Comerica Park
in Detroit. Sports attorney and adjunct professor Eldon
L. Ham is the author of a new book Larceny & Old Leather: The
Mischievous Legacy Of Major League Baseball. Professor Ham is available for interviews.
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