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--October 31, 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.
President Bush has named appeals court Judge Samuel A. Alito, Jr., to the U.S. Supreme Court. Judge Alito, of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, replaces White House counsel Harriet Ellan Meirs, who withdrew from consideration last week. If confirmed, he would replace retiring Justice Sandra Day O’Connor. Dean Harold J. Krent, the author of Presidential Powers, is available for interviews.
Former Finnish President Martti Ahtisaari is expected to be named to oversee negotiations on the final status of Kosovo. The U.N. Security Council last week approved talks that will begin in November. Professor Henry H. Perritt, Jr., who is writing a book on the Kosovo Liberation Army, has visited Kosovo several times a year since 1998 to work on free and fair elections, privatization and economic development, and improved education there. He is available for interviews about final status negotiations mandated by U.N. Security Council Resolution 1244, which authorized U.N. intervention in Kosovo.
AOL founder Steve Case has resigned from the board of Time-Warner. Case put together the 2001 merger of AOL with Time-Warner and briefly served as chairman of what was called AOL Time-Warner, Inc. Joel D. Goldhar, professor of technology management at Stuart Graduate School of Business, is available for interviews.
The NBA season begins November 1. Adjunct professor and sports attorney Eldon L. Ham is author of The Playmasters: An Unauthorized History of the NBA. Professor Ham is available for interviews about the league’s new dress code, the Eddy Curry controversy and Michael Jordan’s gambling revelations.
Displaced Citizens Voters Protection Act of 2005. Alabama congressman Artur Davis has proposed legislation that would allow Texas, Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi and Florida residents displaced by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita to vote in federal elections through 2008. The law would give them the same absentee voter status as military and overseas voters. Individuals must certify that they are qualified to vote in their original places of residence and that they intend to return to that residence in the near future. Dean Harold J. Krent is available for interviews about the measure.
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.
November 11 is Veterans’ Day. Professor Michael I. Spak, an expert on military law and a colonel in the U.S. Army Reserve, is available for interviews about legal issues related to the military.
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 policies 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.
Downtown Campus Events:
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 18-19: Popular Constitutionalism: A Symposium on The People Themselves: Popular Constitutionalism and Judicial Review, by Larry D. Kramer. This symposium, sponsored by the Chicago-Kent Law Review, the Institute for Law and Humanities at Chicago-Kent College of Law, the Stanford Law Society of Chicago, and the Center for New Deal Studies at Roosevelt University, will bring together legal historians and constitutional scholars to discuss new perspectives on the history and theory of constitutional interpretation. The conference will be framed by consideration of Stanford Law School Dean Larry Kramer's book and will consider the rise of judicial power in the United States and alternative ideas of the place of the Constitution in law, politics, and American culture. The symposium is free, but space is limited. Those wishing to attend the symposium should RSVP to Professor Daniel W. Hamilton at dhamilton@kentlaw.edu.
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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