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–September 27, 2006–Chicago-Kent College of Law and Stuart School of Business have experts available to discuss current issues. To reach any of our experts, call Gwen Osborne, director of public affairs, at (312) 906-5251. Press releases and earlier advisories are available on our Web site: www.kentlaw.edu/news/advisory.
U.S. Supreme Court. Constitutional scholar and distinguished professor Sheldon H. Nahmod is available for interviews about the first term of the Roberts Court. Professor Nahmod is also available to talk about highlights of the Supreme Court's 2005-06 session and key issues the justices will consider during the new term, which begins October 3. His number is (312) 906-5261.
Attorneys for a Pakistani prisoner held at the detention facility at Guantánamo Bay filed a court challenge last week that accused the U.S. government of illegally denying detainees access to Muslim chaplains. The legal action begins as the Muslim holy month of Ramadan begins. Officials stopped assigning Muslim chaplains to the facility more than two years ago after Army chaplain James Yee was arrested and charged with espionage. The charges were later dropped. Chicago-Kent experts are available to discuss the case. In addition, the law school is holding several events related to the detainees at Guantánamo and the War on Terror. (See below.)
Downtown Campus Events:
September 29: "The War on Terror, the Press and the Constitution." Panelists Hon. Abner J. Mikva, Frank Mankiewicz and Peter Slevin will discuss First Amendment issues related to media reporting on the "War on Terror." Judge Mikva currently is Schwartz lecturer and senior director of the Mandel Legal Aid Clinic of the University of Chicago Law School. He has served as a member of Congress, as chief judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, and as White House Counsel to President Clinton. Frank Mankiewicz has served as president of National Public Radio, vice-chairman of Hill & Knowlton, campaign manager for 1972 Presidential nominee George McGovern, and press secretary to the late Senator Robert F. Kennedy. Peter Slevin has served as chief of the Washington Post’s Chicago bureau since 2004. Prior to joining the newspaper in 1998, Slevin served as chief diplomatic correspondent for Knight-Ridder Newspapers. From 1980 to 1995, he was a reporter for the Miami Herald, where he spent more than seven years covering the collapse of communism in Central Europe and the former Soviet Union. The program, which will begin at 2 p.m., is free and open to the public. A reception will follow at 3:15 p.m. The program is sponsored by the Chicago-Kent Chapter of the American Constitution Society. For more information, call (312) 906-5192.
October 5: National Guantánamo Teach-In. Chicago-Kent is among more than 200 American colleges, universities and law schools that will participate in the daylong event. "Guantánamo: How Should We Respond?" is the theme of the program that will include panel discussions at the law school and an Internet simulcast from the Guantánamo Bar Association’s host event at Seton Hall University School of Law in New Jersey. Chicago-Kent speakers include Dean Harold J. Krent and professors Henry H. Perritt, Jr., Sheldon H. Nahmod, Bartram S. Brown, and Mark D. Rosen. The Chicago-Kent Teach-In is co-sponsored by several student organizations, including the American Constitution Society, Federalist Society, Chicago-Kent Law Review and Asian Pacific American Law Students Association (APALSA). Student co-sponsoring organizations also include the National Lawyers Guild, Kent Justice Foundation, Military Law Society, International Law Society, Chicago-Kent Lambdas, and Justinian Society. The program, which is free and open to the public, will be held at Chicago-Kent from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. EDITORS PLEASE NOTE: The national Teach-In also will be accessible to the media via the Internet on a limited basis via a code obtained from Kathleen Brunet Eagan at Seton Hall University Law School, (973) 642-8724 or eagankat@shu.edu. For information about the Chicago-Kent Teach-In, please call (312) 906-5392.
October 5: "Big Issues and Small Science: Addressing the Socially Responsible Development of Nanotechnology" is the theme of a Chicago Nano Forum hosted by IIT's Center on Nanotechnology and Society. Legal, business and regulatory experts will share their views on how to achieve the socially responsible development of nanotechnology. Panelists include Erik Flom, principal and patent specialist at Welsh & Katz, Ltd.; George Nassos, professor and director of the environmental management program, IIT's Stuart School of Business; and Michael Radnor, professor of management and organizations at Northwestern's Kellogg School of Management and director of the Center for Technology Innovation Management. Nigel M. de S. Cameron, director of IIT's Center on Nanotechnology and Society and associate dean and research professor of bioethics at Chicago-Kent, will provide introductory remarks. Reservations are requested. For more information or to RSVP, please contact: RSVP@thehumanfuture.org.
October 18: Professor Neal Katyal of the Georgetown Law Center will discuss his role as attorney for the plaintiff in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld. On June 29, 2006, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 5-3 that the Bush administration’s military commissions formed to try Guantánamo Bay detainees violated both international and American military law. In addition to his work in Hamdan, Professor Katyal served as co-counsel to former Vice President Al Gore in the U.S. Supreme Court case Bush v. Palm Beach Canvassing Board, which helped determine the outcome of the 2000 presidential election. The program, which is free and open to the public, is sponsored by Chicago-Kent’s Institute for Law and the Humanities and will be held in the Governor Richard B. Ogilvie auditorium beginning at 3 p.m. For more information, call (312) 906-5392.
October 20: Legal Research in Your Pajamas: How to Use New, Effective, and Free Online Resources is an interactive afternoon workshop. Participants will learn how do research more efficiently, cut research costs, access free Web sites and Internet-only resources, use a wide range of state and federal resources, and cite online sources. This program is offered by Chicago-Kent’s Office of Continuing Legal and Professional Education and is eligible for CLE credits. There is a $145 registration fee to attend this workshop. Chicago-Kent alumni may register for $70. For more information, please call (312) 906-5090 or www.kentlaw.edu/depts/cle/.
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