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 12 , 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.
Most forms of Internet gambling would be banned under provisions of a measure overwhelmingly passed Tuesday by the U.S. House of Representatives. By 317 to 93 vote, the House updated a 45-year-old law that prohibits betting over telephone lines to include the communications technology used for Internet gambling. State lotteries and horse-racing would be exempted. The proposal also would prevent banks, credit card companies and other financial institutions from processing bettors’ payments to online casinos. Chicago-Kent Dean Harold J. Krent is available for interviews about the proposal. He can also discuss current civil and criminal liability, privacy issues and jurisdictional issues related to online gambling.
Will the Burge report be made public soon? Investigators who submitted a written report on allegations of abuse by Chicago police officers say the document could be released to the public before July 20. The report details a four-year investigation of charges that former Chicago police commander Jon Burge and his subordinates at Area 2 and 3 police stations tortured suspects to obtain confessions from them. Legal wrangling has prevented release of the document. The alleged abuse of dozens of suspects by Chicago police detectives under Burge’s command allegedly began in 1973 and ended in 1993, when Burge left the department. Chicago-Kent professor Richard S. Kling, who represents one of the named plaintiffs in the case against Burge, is available for interviews.
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has asked a federal judge in Chicago to force the Chicago-based law firm of Sidley Austin LLP to provide witnesses to testify in an age discrimination suit. In January of 2005, the EEOC filed suit on behalf of nearly three dozen partners claiming the firm’s mandatory retirement was discriminatory. Documents have been provided in the case, but the EEOC is asking the law firm for sworn testimony regarding why certain partners were fired or demoted. Professor Howard C. Eglit is available for interviews about the case and other issues related to law and aging. Professor Eglit is the author of a three-volume treatise entitled Age Discrimination; a law review article, The Age Discrimination in Employment Act at Thirty: Where It's Been, Where It Is Today, Where It's Going and a book, Elders on Trial: Age and Ageism in the American Legal System. A nationally known expert in elder law issues, Professor Eglit has served on the board of the Illinois chapter of the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys and on the advisory committee for the Buehler Center on Aging, McGaw Medical Center, Northwestern University.
American baby boomers turning 60 at a rate of 330 every hour. As they age, this generation will continue to exert significant political, social and economic influence. Experts from Chicago-Kent College of Law and Stuart Graduate School of Business are available to talk about the impact of boomers on the workplace and consumer spending. They can also discuss marketing to this segment of the population, and unique branding issues and trends, and other issues related to the aging baby boom generation.
Opening ceremonies for Gay Games VII will be held in Chicago’s Soldier Field on July 15. More than 12,000 athletes representing 70 countries will converge on Chicago to compete in 30 sports. Sports attorney and adjunct professor Eldon L. Ham is available for interviews.
Four Chicago-Kent students are in Iran, Venezuela, Kosovo and Jordan this summer. Through their work as legal assistants to governmental bodies or legal organizations, the students are gaining hands-on knowledge of efforts in those countries to restore or maintain the rule of law. Chicago-Kent professor Henry H. Perritt, Jr., is overseeing the students’ assignments. He is available for interviews and to help facilitate media contact with the students.
Sequence is a new thriller by Chicago-Kent professor Lori B. Andrews. It is the first work of fiction by Professor Andrews, who has written several books and dozens of articles for legal and trade publications on law and technology. In 1996, she published Black Power, White Blood: The Life and Times of Johnny Spain, a biography of the former Black Panther and "San Quentin Six" member. Sequence is the story of Alexandra Blake, a geneticist with the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology in Washington, D.C., who is working against time to identify a serial killer. Professor Andrews is available for interviews about Sequence and the intersection of fiction, law, science and technology.
Introduction to the American Legal System. More than two dozen students from law schools in Brazil, China, Turkey and the Ukraine will spend three weeks at Chicago-Kent participating in a special three-week seminar designed to give foreign students an overview of the American legal system and introduce them to important concepts in American law. Participants will spend weekday mornings in class. In the afternoons, the group will visit courts, the county jail, and a law firm. They will tour local financial institutions such as the Chicago Board of Trade, the Federal Reserve Bank and the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. Students will also have an opportunity to explore metropolitan Chicago cultural institutions and tourist attractions. Faculty and administrators are available for interviews about the program, which runs July 15 through August 6.
Downtown Campus Events
August 17-18: "Technology in Health Care in the 21st Century: Trends, Advances, Management & Challenges—What We Know and What We Need to Study" is the theme of the 5th annual Hospital of the Future conference hosted by Stuart Graduate School of Business’ Center for the Management of Medical Technology. Participants will consider how innovations in and better management of genetics, biotechnology and other technologies can improve the health care delivery system. The conference is co-sponsored by the Association for Health Care Technology and Management. For more information, please contact conference co-chairs professors Eliezer Geisler, (312) 906-6532, or Nilmini Wickramasinghe, (312) 906-6578 or visit the conference Web site: http://hof.stuart.iit.edu/.
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