For more information, please contact:
Gwen Osborne, director of public affairs, (312) 906-5251
ADVISORY TO PRODUCERS, COLUMNISTS, AND ASSIGNMENT, LEGAL, PLANNING, BUSINESS, POLITICAL, BOOK, CITY DESK, FEATURES AND DAYBOOK EDITORS
CHICAGO–May 5, 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.
May is Older Americans Month. One in six Americans is 60 years of age or older. Last year, the nation’s oldest baby boomers began turning 60. Chicago-Kent professor Howard C. Eglit is an expert on law and aging. Professor Eglit is the author of Elders on Trial: Age and Ageism in the American Legal System and of a three-volume treatise, Age Discrimination. He is available for interviews in conjunction with the 40th anniversary of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act. He can also discuss workplace issues faced by aging baby boomers.
Chicago-Kent was the first law school in the nation to require its students to take five semesters of legal writing courses before they graduate. The law school’s emphasis on effective analytical, research, and communications skills has served as a model for other institutions. Chicago-Kent will host “Back to the Future of Legal Research,” a one-day symposium for legal writing faculty and law librarians. (See below.) Professor Mary Rose Strubbe, director of Chicago-Kent’s Legal Research and Writing Program, is available for interviews about the curriculum and the symposium.
Downtown Campus Events:
May 18: Back to the Future of Legal Research. How can law schools stay abreast of the rapid changes in legal research techniques? How can they best pass this knowledge on to their students? This intensive one-day conference will bring together law librarians and legal writing professors from across the country to continue conversations on important issues begun in 2005. For a schedule and registration information, please visit
http://www.kentlaw.edu/academics/lrw/future/ on the Web.
May 20: Chicago-Kent Commencement. Illinois Supreme Court justice 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. 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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