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Gwen Osborne, director of public affairs, (312) 906-5251
ADVISORY TO PRODUCERS, COLUMNISTS AND ASSIGNMENT, LEGAL, PLANNING, BUSINESS, AND DAYBOOK EDITORS
CHICAGO--October 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/advisory.
The Chicago White Sox will play in the World Series for the first time since 1959. Adjunct professor and sports attorney Eldon L. Ham is the author of Larceny and Old Leather: The Mischievous Legacy of Major League Baseball. Professor Ham is available for interviews about “baseball mischief” including umpires and “loose rules” such as missed tags at second base and moving-target strike zones. He is also available to discuss whether Major League Baseball should adopt an instant replay system.
Confirmation hearings for U.S. Supreme Court nominee Harriet Ellan Miers will begin November 7. Questions continue regarding several issues, including her lack of judicial experience, her religious beliefs and her views on abortion. If confirmed, Miers would replace retiring Justice Sandra Day O’Connor. Dean Harold J. Krent, the author of Presidential Powers, is available for interviews.
The corruption trial of former Illinois Governor George Ryan continues. Ryan faces 22 charges of conspiracy, lying to the FBI, mail fraud, racketeering and tax fraud. 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; Professor Kling is a criminal defense attorney.
The first of several trials of former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein began in Bagdad this week. Hussein is on trial for the 1982 torture and murders of more than 140 Iraqis. After Hussein entered a plea of not guilty, the defense was granted an adjournment until November 28. Professor Bartram S. Brown, co-director of Chicago-Kent's program in international and comparative law, is available for interviews. Professor Brown 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.
Victor Conte, head of the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative (BALCO), was sentenced to eight months as part of a plea agreement with federal prosecutors. Conte was accused of money laundering and providing professional athletes with undetectable performance-enhancing drugs. Conte will spend four months in prison and four months in home confinement. Adjunct professor and sports attorney Eldon L. Ham is a co-founder of Sports Is Education Foundation, a nonprofit organization that works to address issues in amateur athletics. Professor Ham is available to discuss his group’s October 20 symposium that will examine how to stop steroid use before it starts.
Chicago-Kent is hosting a delegation of seven high-level government officials and legal scholars from Shanghai who are spending the fall semester at the law school, gaining insight and information to assist them in the creation of an advanced intellectual property training program for attorneys and public officials in Shanghai. Lydia Lazar, assistant dean for international law and policy development, is available for interviews.
The U.S. Supreme Court will hear a challenge to the Solomon Amendment brought by a coalition of 31 law schools, including Chicago-Kent. Enacted in 1996, the Solomon Amendment is a federal law created to guarantee the military equal access to campuses and students. Colleges and universities that bar military recruiters from their campuses in violation of the law face penalties including the loss of federal funds. However, the coalition says hosting the recruiters on campus violates the schools’ anti-discrimination policy because the military excludes openly gay members. The coalition also says the Solomon Amendment imposes on their rights to free speech. Dean Harold J. Krent is available for interviews about the case.
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. He is also available to speak with organizations about immigration issues.
Downtown Campus Events:
October 20: “Housing Rights for All: Promoting and Defending Housing Rights in the United States” is a one-day workshop for people impacted by homelessness, grassroots organizers, advocates, attorneys and others, held at Chicago-Kent. Discussions will include an overview of Chicago’s 10-Year Plan to End Homelessness, strategies to create a movement to promote housing as a human right, testimonials from Chicago-area residents, and a rights-based approach to housing and local advocacy. The workshop is co-sponsored by the Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions, the Chicago Coalition for the Homeless, Chicago Coalition to Protect Public Housing, Chicago-Kent and the National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty. The program, which begins at 8:30 a.m., is free and open to the public but advance registration is required. To register or for more information, contact Allison Mitchell at the National Center on Homelessness and Poverty at (202) 638-2535 or at mitchell@nlchp.org.
October 31: “Waiving Your Patent Case Goodbye: Preserving Issues for Appeal in an Era of DeNovo Review” is the topic of the second annual Federal Circuit roundtable. The annual roundtable, composed of former Federal Circuit clerks, is a discussion of current developments in patent law. Participants include attorneys Meredith Martin Addy, Laura L. Donoghue, Sasha D. Mayergoyz, David McKone, Peter N. Moore, Lisa A. Schneider, Michael R. Weiner and Chicago-Kent professor Kristen R. Osenga. The two-hour roundtable will begin at 1 p.m. The roundtable is free and open to the public. For more information, call (312) 906-5090.
November 2: A Stuart Research Colloquium will explore Research in the Management of Healthcare and Medical Technology. IIT’s Center for the Management of Medical Technology (CMMT) is conducting cutting-edge research on breakthrough technologies. Center directors Professor Eliezer Geisler and Nilmini Wickramasinghe will discuss how CMMT operates as well as current research and pending research proposals. They will also examine the state of the art in the management of healtchcare technologies, including tele-health, E-health, telemedicine and computerized medical research. The colloquium, which is free and open to the public, is sponsored by Stuart Graduate School of Business. The program begins at noon in Room 490. Refreshments will be served. For more information, call (312) 906-6532.
November 4: “Are Public Employee Labor Relations Under Siege” is the topic of the keynote address by Thomas A. Kochan, George M. Bunker Professor of Management, Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Professor Kochan will deliver his remarks at the 21st annual Illinois Public Sector Labor Relations Law Program, sponsored by Chicago-Kent's Institute for Law and the Workplace. For more information, call (312) 906-5090.
November 16: Chicago-Kent College of Law’s Annual Alumni Awards Luncheon will begin at noon in the Main Dining Room of the Union League Club, 65 West Jackson Boulevard, in Chicago. The Alumni Association will honor members of the legal community. Alumnus Scott W. Gertz '99 and alumna Holly D. Gordon '99 will receive Abraham Lincoln Marovitz Public Interest Law Awards. 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. Chicago-Kent graduates receiving Professional Achievement Awards are Jeffrey S. Weiner '75 and Elaine S. Fox '75. Distinguished Service awards will go to the Honorable Edward F. Masters '72 and to Chicago-Kent professor Howard C. Eglit. Scott Schutte '95 will receive the Young Alumnus Award.
November 16: Chicago-Kent professor Timothy Holbrook will present a workshop on “Curing Heterosexuality? Moral Signals and the Potential for Expressive Harms in Patent Law.” The presentation is part of the 2005-2006 Forum for Research on Law, Politics, and the Humanities sponsored by the University of Illinois at Chicago’s Institute for the Humanities. The program will begin at 3 p.m. at the Institute for the Humanities, Lower Level, Stevenson Hall, 701 South Morgan Street in Chicago. The program is free and open to the public, but advance registration is encouraged. To register or for more information, please contact huminst@uic.edu or call (312) 996-6354.
November 28 and 29: “The Importance of Jewish/Muslim Dialogue,” is the general theme of two public lectures by Dr. Akbar Ahmed, former high commissioner from Pakistan to the United Kingdom and the Ibn Khaldun Chair of Islamic Studies at American University. Dr. Ahmed’s lectures launch a new initiative in Jewish/Muslim relations at Chicago-Kent and the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). On Monday, Dr. Ahmed will address the topic “Crossroad for the Abrahmic Faiths” at 4 p.m. in Room 302 of UIC’s Student Center East, 750 S. Halsted Street in Chicago. On Tuesday, his topic will be “Judaism and Knowledge in the Abrahamic Faiths.” The program will begin at noon in the Governor Richard B. Ogilvie Auditorium on IIT’s Downtown Campus, 565 West Adams St. in Chicago. Both lectures are free and open to the public. RSVPs are required by November 19, 2005, to (312) 413-2500. For assistance or more information, please call (312) 413-2102.
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