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 18 , 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.
President Bush has vowed to veto a bill that would allow federal funding for embryonic stem-cell research. The legislation is expected to be submitted for his signature this week. However, the president is expected to sign two related bills. The first would encourage study on non-embryonic stem cells, and the second would prohibit so-called "fetal farming" – the development and abortion of fetuses for scientific purposes. Nigel Cameron, president of IIT's Institute on Biotechnology and the Human Future, is available for interviews about these stem-cell bills and about stem-cell research.
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 biotechnology. 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 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. 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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