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--March 13, 2006--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.
Slobodan Milosevic is dead. The former Yugoslavian president was found dead in his cell at The Hague, where he had been on trial for genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity. Since 1996, when he established Project Bosnia, Chicago-Kent professor Henry H. Perritt, Jr., has worked to build a rule of law, promote the free press, assist in economic development, and provide refugee aid in the former Yugoslavia. Professor Perritt is available for interviews about the life and death of Slobodan Milosevic.
Spring break in Mississippi. Chicago-Kent students Joel Roberson and Susan Clark won’t get much sand and surf during their break. Roberson and Clark are working as volunteers with the Mississippi Center for Justice, where they will focus on housing issues for Gulf Coast residents impacted by Hurricane Katrina. The students will work on an inventory of affordable housing in the area. They will also monitor eviction proceedings for fairness and consistency. Another project will take them into historically African-American communities to help identify historical sites that should be saved and restored rather than demolished. They will be available for interviews upon their return to Chicago.
The jury in the federal corruption trial of former Illinois governor George Ryan has begun deliberations. Ryan and his co-defendant, Larry Warner, each face 22 charges of conspiracy, lying to the FBI, mail fraud, racketeering and tax fraud. If convicted of all charges, they could receive maximum penalties of nearly $5 million and 95 years in prison. Chicago-Kent professors and criminal defense attorneys Daniel T. Coyne and Richard S. Kling are available for interviews.
For more than 30 years, NCAA rules prohibited teams that received bids to its basketball tournament from opting to accept an invitation for the rival National Invitational Tournament (NIT). The NIT is sponsored by five New York schools: Fordham, Manhattan, New York University, St. Johns and Wagner. In 2001, NIT organizers filed a federal antitrust lawsuit to challenge an NCAA rule that prevents teams receiving an invitation to the 64-team NCAA basketball tournament from instead choosing to go to the postseason NIT. In August 2005, the NCAA bought the NIT preseason and postseason tournaments for $40.5 million and agreed to pay the NIT another $16 million to settle the federal lawsuit. Sports attorney and adjunct professor Eldon L. Ham is available for interviews.
Chicago-Kent's Family Law Clinic. Cook County residents with domestic relations disputes, including matters of legal separation, divorce, child support, child custody, visitation and guardianships, may qualify for representation through Chicago-Kent's Family Law Clinic. Clients will pay on a sliding scale fee basis, depending on their financial circumstances. Students work under the supervision of Professor Ira Feldman, who is available for interviews about the program.
Downtown Campus Events
March 14-16: "Shaping the Future: New Voices and Strategies on Human Trafficking." This three-day conference will provide a forum for advocates, service providers, and law enforcement to discuss new and innovative ways to combat human trafficking and modern-day slavery. The program will include screenings and discussions of films on the issue of trafficking; advanced workshops, roundtables and plenary sessions; and a discussion of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act. This conference is sponsored by the Freedom Network (USA), a coalition of 25 non-governmental organizations whose members "assist persons who have been recruited, transported, and/or harbored for forced labor, slavery, debt bondage, or servitude in agricultural work, child labor, child pornography, domestic work, entertainment, garment manufacturing, prostitution, food service industries, other factory work, and servile marriages." Registration is required. For more information, visit http://www.freedomnetworkusa.org/activities.htm.
March 28: Kenneth G. Dau-Schmidt, associate dean for research and Willard and Margaret Carr Professor of Labor and Employment Law at Indiana University School of Law-Bloomington, will deliver the 28th annual Kenneth M. Piper Lecture. Professor Dau-Schmidt will address the topic "The Future of Collective Bargaining." Commentators include Allison Beck, general counsel, International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, AFL-CIO; Nicholas W. Clark, associate general counsel, United Food and Commercial Workers International Union; and Michael A. Rodriquez, senior vice president-labor relations, AT&T Services, Inc. The program, which begins at 11:30 a.m., is free and open to the public. The lecture series, presented by Chicago-Kent's Institute for Law and the Workplace, explores current topics in labor law, and was established by a gift in memory of Kenneth M. Piper, a distinguished executive with Motorola, Inc., and Bausch & Lomb, Inc. For more information, call (312) 906-5090.
April 4: The 17th annual Henry Morris Lecture in International and Comparative Law. Mitsuo Matushita, professor emeritus of law at Tokyo University and of counsel to Nagashima, Ohno & Tsunematsu, will address the topic "Decision-Making in the WTO." The lecture series is funded by the Henry Morris Endowment, established in memory of Henry Crittendon Morris, who graduated from Chicago-Kent College of Law in 1889. Mr. Morris enjoyed a distinguished career as an international lawyer and diplomat. The program, which is free and open to the public, begins at noon. For more information, call (312) 906-5090.
April 7: "From Ancient Persia to Abu Ghraib: Comparative Observations on Empire, Religion, and Torture" will be the topic of a lecture by Bruce Lincoln, the Caroline E. Haskell Professor of the History of Religions at the University of Chicago. Professor Lincoln is the author of Holy Terrors: Thinking about Religion after September 11. Sponsored by Chicago-Kent’s Institute for Law and the Humanities, this program is the last in its "Law, Fundamentalism and Democracy" series. The program, which is free and open to the public, will begin at 2 p.m. in the Abraham Lincoln Marovitz Courtroom. For more information, contact Professor Sarah Harding, (312) 906-5227.
April 20-21: George K. Yin, Howard W. Smith Professor of Law, University of Virginia School of Law, will deliver the luncheon keynote address on the first day of Chicago-Kent’s 25th annual Federal Tax Institute. He will address the topic "Prospects for Budget Control and Tax Reform." Professor Yin, who headed the staff of the U.S. Congress’s Joint Committee on Taxation from 2003 to 2005, will share his insights regarding the likelihood of budget control and tax reform legislation in view of the current state of the law and legislative process. The two-day program also will review recent developments in tax law. Participants will also discuss tax planning for multinational corporations, corporate taxation and executive compensation issues. For more information, call (312) 906-5090.
April 27-28: 23rd annual conference on Section 1983 Civil Rights Litigation. This two-day seminar provides a comprehensive update, presented by leading practitioners and legal scholars, on liability arising out of Section 1983 and other civil rights statutes. Police misconduct, sexual harassment, municipal liability, individual immunities and procedural defenses, and recent and forthcoming cases before the U.S. Supreme Court are among the topics to be explored. For more information, call (312) 906-5090.
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