For more information, please contact:
Gwen Osborne, director of public affairs, (312) 906-5251
ADVISORY TO PRODUCERS, COLUMNISTS AND ASSIGNMENT, LEGAL, PLANNING, HIGHER EDUCATION, BUSINESS, POLITICAL, BOOK, ENVIRONMENTAL, CITY DESK, FEATURES AND DAYBOOK EDITORS
CHICAGO–April 16, 2007–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. Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez testified this week before the Senate Judiciary Committee about the firing of eight U.S. attorneys. Chicago-Kent Dean Harold J. Krent says the Bush administration could have avoided part of the controversy by adopting President Grover Cleveland's stance when he fired federal attorneys in the 1880s. Dean Krent, the author of Presidential Powers, is available for interviews.
April 22 is Earth Day. Begun in 1970 as a teach-in to call attention to environmental issues, Earth Day is now observed by more than 500 million people in 175 countries. Approximately 30,000 people are expected to attend the Green Festival April 21 and 22 at Chicago's McCormick Place. Professor George P. Nassos, director of Stuart School of Business' Center for Sustainable Enterprise and director of the school's graduate environmental management programs, is available for interviews. Professor Nassos can discuss green business programs. Chicago-Kent distinguished professor Dan Tarlock, director of the law school's program in environmental and energy law, is also available for interviews. Professor Tarlock, currently one of three U.S. special legal advisors to the NAFTA Commission on Environmental Cooperation, teaches courses in land use, property, energy and natural resource law, environmental policy, and international environmental law.
Downtown Campus Events:
April 26-27: 24th 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.
April 30-May 1: Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley will deliver the keynote address at 8:45 a.m. on the second day of "Overcoming Legal Barriers to Reentry," the ABA Commission on Effective Criminal Sanctions' Spring Conference. Participants will discuss the impact of laws and policies that limit employment prospects of persons with criminal records. Panel discussions will examine the employer's and employee's perspectives, the balance between the public's right to information and policy interests that encourage successful reentry, and the risks and rewards of encouraging elected officials to support reentry initiatives. Former Illinois Governor James R. Thompson and George Washington University law professor Stephen A. Saltzburg, co-chair the ABA commission. Attendance is free, but advance registration is required. Details of the program and a complete list of conference participants are available at http://www.abanet.org/crimjust/calendar/cecsspringconference.pdf. This program is co-sponsored by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Chicago Metropolis 2020, the Safer Foundation and the ABA Criminal Justice Section. News media representatives are welcome to attend the conference, but ABA press credentials are required. To register as media, please contact Nancy Cowger Slonim, (312) 988-6132, or slonim@staff.abanet.org.
May 3-4: 26th annual Federal Tax Institute. Hon. Eric Solomon, assistant secretary for tax policy at the U.S. Department of Treasury, will be the luncheon speaker on the second day of the institute to discuss current developments at the Treasury Department. This two-day program brings together nationally recognized tax advisors to provide a comprehensive update on recent developments and their impact on tax planning, compliance and controversy techniques. For more information, call (312) 906-5090.
May 20: Chicago-Kent Commencement. Illinois Supreme Court and Chicago-Kent alumna Anne M. Burke will deliver the commencement address at Chicago-Kent College of Law's 2007 ceremonies. Commencement ceremonies begin at 2 p.m. and will be held in the Arie Crown Theatre at McCormick Place's Lakeside Center, 2301 S. Lake Shore Drive, in Chicago. Approximately 385 students are expected to receive Juris Doctor degrees, and 45 Master of Laws degrees will be conferred.
May 21: Who Owns Your Body?: Legal and Social Issues in Michael Crichton's NEXT. Best-selling author Michael Crichton and a panel of experts from the legal, judiciary, medical, bioethics and social science communities will convene at Chicago-Kent to explore a variety of thought-provoking questions raised in Crichton's latest techno-thriller Next. The novel presents a genetics industry Crichton says is "fast, furious and out of control." In Next, the author imagines a world in which blondes are threatened by extinction and it is possible to design one's pets. And, while tissue donors and their families are not yet being pursued by bounty hunters intent upon harvesting genes for biotech companies, there are battles currently being waged in the courts and Congress that will determine who owns an individual's genes and other body parts.
Mr. Crichton will speak from 4 to 5 p.m. Other participants in the day-long program include: Chicago-Kent distinguished professor, author and bioethicist Lori B. Andrews; Pepperdine University professor and former California Supreme Court justice Armand Arabian; health law professor Timothy Caulfield of the University of Alberta; Professor John Conley of the University of North Carolina School of Law; Professor Michele Goodwin, director of the DePaul University Health Law Institute; Debra Harry, executive director of the Indigenous Peoples Council on Biocolonialism; science and technology studies professor Stephen Hilgartner of Cornell University; and award-winning journalist and author Seth Shulman.
The program is free and open to the public, but registration is required. However, for Illinois lawyers seeking mandatory continuing legal education credit (4.0 hours), a $20 fee applies. To register and for more information, please visit www.whoownsyourbody.org.
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