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–October 3, 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.
Sixty percent of Americans approve of the job the U.S. Supreme Court is doing, according to the results of a Gallup Poll released last week. The court’s approval ratings are the highest since 2003 as well as the highest among the three branches of government. President Bush has a 39 percent approval rating and Congress is rated at 29 percent. The Supreme Court reconvenes for its 2006-07 session this week. 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.
Age Discrimination. The U.S. Supreme Court Monday upheld a ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit that allows the EEOC to pursue monetary damages from the Chicago-based law firm of Sidley Austin LLP 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 policy was discriminatory. 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 titled 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.
Military Commissions Act of 2006. The U.S. Senate last week passed sweeping legislation that authorizes new rules for detention, trial and interrogation of terror suspects. Chicago-Kent experts are available to discuss the new law. On Thursday of this week, the law school will participate in the National Teach-In on Guantanamo Bay. Law schools, colleges, and universities across the country will spend the day examining the legal issues raised by the detentions at Guantanamo Bay. (See below.)
This is Hispanic Heritage Month. Chicago-Kent experts are available to discuss a variety legal issues related to the Hispanic experience in the United States, including English-only laws, immigration reform, education rights and employment discrimination.
Seven-time Cy Young Award-winning pitcher Roger Clemens is among six current and former players implicated in a federal investigation of performance-enhancing drugs. The Los Angeles Times reported that Clemens was named in a federal affidavit by former Arizona Diamondbacks’ pitcher Jason Grimsley, who has admitted using amphetamines, steroids and hormones. Clemens, who came out of retirement to pitch for the Astros the last three seasons, was a teammate of Grimsley on the Yankees in 1999 and 2000. Sports attorney and adjunct professor Eldon L. Ham, an outspoken critic of Major League Baseball’s steroid policy, is available for interviews.
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; and individuals threatened with removal from the United States by the government. Professor Bernstein is available for interviews about the Immigration Law Clinic. He is also available to speak with organizations about immigration issues.
Downtown Campus Events:
October 5: National Guantanamo Teach-In. Chicago-Kent is among more than 200 American colleges, universities and law schools that will participate in the daylong event. "Guantanamo: How Should We Respond?" is the theme of the program, which will include panel discussions at the law school and an Internet simulcast from the Guantanamo 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 student organizations, including the American Constitution Society, Federalist Society, Chicago-Kent Law Review and Asian Pacific American Law Students Association. Co-sponsoring student 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 at 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 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 12 and 13: Conference on Intellectual Property and Trade and Development: Accommodating and Reconciling Different National Levels of Protection. Distinguished scholars and representatives from intergovernmental organizations, government, industry and nongovernmental organizations will gather at this two-day program to explore when and how to accommodate and reconcile differences in national intellectual property laws in an era of international lawmaking. Differences in the appropriate forms and levels of protection between developed and developing countries will receive particular attention. Participants include Geoffrey Yu, deputy director general of the World Intellectual Property Organization; Amy Cotton of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office of International Relations; Professor Annette Kur of the Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property Law; and University of South Africa School of Law professor Coenraad Visser. For more information about the conference, including schedule and online registration form, visit http://ipconference.kentlaw.edu or call (312) 906-5128.
October 19: 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.
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