For more information, please contact:
Gwen Osborne, director of public affairs, (312) 906-5251
ADVISORY TO PRODUCERS, COLUMNISTS AND ASSIGNMENT, LEGAL, PLANNING,
BUSINESS, CITY DESK, FEATURES AND DAYBOOK EDITORS
CHICAGO–December 3, 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.
The United Auto Workers (UAW) and Ford Motor Co. this week signed a four-year contract both sides believe will usher in a new spirit of cooperation between the union and U.S. automakers. The signing ceremony formally ended extensive contract negotiations that began in mid-September. General Motors and Chrysler have also signed new agreements. Analysts believe the automobile industry contract will serve as a model for other employers seeking to cut costs, increase sales and remain competitive with foreign markets during a volatile economic period. Chicago-Kent professor Martin H. Malin, director of the Institute for Law and the Workplace and the author of Individual Rights Within the Union, is available for interviews about the new auto industry contracts and any impact on future labor negotiations in other sectors.
The Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 (ADEA) protects employees and job applicants who are 40 years of age and older from discrimination based on age with respect to "any term, condition or privilege of employment, including hiring, firing, promotion, layoff, compensation, benefits, job assignments and training." Professor Howard C. Eglit, who has done extensive research on claims brought under the ADEA, is the author of a three-volume treatise, Age Discrimination, and Elders on Trial: Age and Ageism in the American Legal System. Professor Eglit is available for interviews about the ADEA.
Dreaming of a Green Christmas? Professor John Paul Kusz, associate director of Stuart School of Business’ Center for Sustainable Enterprise, has several environmentally friendly gift suggestions.
The death penalty in Illinois. In 2000, then-governor George Ryan imposed a moratorium on executions and appointed a 14-member commission to review capital punishment in the state. (The General Assembly and the Illinois Supreme Court also appointed committees to study Illinois’ death penalty.) The Ryan panel ultimately drafted 85 recommendations. Three years later, Ryan commuted the death sentences of all 167 death row inmates noting that the legislature had failed to act on his commission’s recommendations. Chicago-Kent professor and criminal defense attorney Daniel T. Coyne is president of the Chicago Council of Lawyers (CCL), which has also studied capital punishment in the state. Professor Coyne is available for interviews about the death penalty and the CCL board’s recent vote to "support the abolition of the death penalty in Illinois if the Illinois General Assembly does not take aggressive action to immediately implement all of the recommendations found in the governor’s and the council’s reports."
Downtown Campus Events:
December 5: 30th annual Chicago-Kent College of Law Alumni Awards Luncheon. Maryann Jones ’82, dean and president of Western State University College of Law, and D. Jean Ortega-Piron ’81, guardian of the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services, will receive Professional Achievement Awards. Jonathan A. Carson ’97, co-founder and president of Kurtzman Carson Consultants LLC, will receive the Young Alumni Award. John R. Schmidt, partner at Mayer Brown LLP, chairman of the Chicago-Kent Board of Overseers, and member of the Illinois Institute of Technology Board of Trustees, will receive the Distinguished Service Award. Lewis Collens, IIT president emeritus, Chicago-Kent professor and former dean, will receive special recognition. The event will be held at the Standard Club, 320 South Plymouth Court in Chicago. The reception will begin at 11:30 a.m.; the luncheon will begin at noon. To register or for more information, please call (312) 906-5245 or visit www.kentlaw.edu/depts/alums/lunch/ on the Web.
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