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--November 14, 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 U.S. Supreme Court will hear a challenge to the Solomon Amendment on December 6. The lawsuit was 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.
The U.N. Security Council last month voted to begin negotiations that should lead to recognition of Kosovo as an independent state. Professor Henry H. Perritt, Jr., says, “The United States should make clear that if final status negotiations drag out with little prospect for a concrete outcome, the U.S. will recognize Kosovo as an independent state regardless of what anybody else thinks.” Professor Perritt, 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.
Reebok has signed New York Yankees first baseman Jason Giambi to a multi-year endorsement deal. Giambi, who was named this year’s American League’s Comeback Player of the Year, lost contracts with Nike, Arm & Hammer and Pepsi after he admitted to a grand jury that he used performance enhancing steroids. Stuart Graduate School of Business professor Joel Goldhar is available to discuss branding issues.Chicago-Kent adjunct professor and sports attorney Eldon L. Ham is also 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.
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:
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 17: “Creating an American Property Law: Alienability and its Limits in American History” is the topic of a lecture by Northwestern University Law School professor Claire Priest. The program, part of a new seminar series co-sponsored by Chicago-Kent and the American Bar Foundation, features area scholars working in the field of legal history. The lecture begins at 3 p.m. at the American Bar Foundation’s Woods Conference Center, 750 N. Lake Shore Drive in Chicago. For more information, please contact Professor Daniel W. Hamilton at dhamilton@kentlaw.edu.
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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