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Gwen Osborne, director of public affairs, (312) 906-5251
ADVISORY TO PRODUCERS, COLUMNISTS AND ASSIGNMENT, LEGAL, PLANNING, BOOK, INTERNATIONAL, SPORTS, BUSINESS, CITY DESK, FEATURES AND DAYBOOK EDITORS
CHICAGO–January 23, 2008–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.
Illinois voters will go to the polls February 5. More and more candidates are using the Internet to get their messages to potential voters and donors. How can online visitors protect their privacy and verify that the sites are legitimate? Chicago-Kent professor Richard Warner is available for interviews.
High school athletes in Illinois soon will be subject to random drug testing for anabolic steroids and other performance-enhancing drugs. The Illinois High School Association last week unanimously approved a policy that will take effect during the 2008-09 school year. Illinois becomes the fourth state to implement a testing program for high school athletes. Florida, Texas and New Jersey also have programs. Eldon L. Ham, sports attorney and adjunct professor, is available for interviews. Also available is adjunct professor and school law expert William C. Kling.
Kosovo prime minister Hashim Thaci will meet this week with European Union and NATO officials to work out a timetable for Kosovo’s independence from Serbia. Chicago-Kent professor and Operation Kosovo founder Henry H. Perritt, Jr., has been to the region numerous times during the past nine years. In 2004, Professor Perritt convened a symposium of academics and policymakers--many from the University of Prishtina in Kosovo--to discuss a wide range of legal, political and economic issues an independent Kosovo would face. He is the author of a forthcoming book on the Kosovo Liberation Army. Professor Perritt is available for interviews.
Age discrimination in employment. The U.S. Supreme Court next month will hear oral arguments in a case that will determine whether the federal government is immune from liability for retaliating against employees who file claims under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA). Chicago-Kent professor Howard C. Eglit is a nationally known expert in elder law issues. Professor Eglit, the author of a three-volume treatise titled Age Discrimination and a book Elders on Trial: Age and Ageism in the American Legal System, is available for interviews.
Unfair use? Novelist Cassie Edwards has been accused of "lifting" several passages from the works of best-selling author Nora Roberts and others. Edwards maintains that her use of material falls under the copyright law’s fair-use doctrine. Professor Mickie A. Piatt, executive director of Chicago-Kent’s program in Intellectual Property Law, is available for interviews about the fair-use doctrine.
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:
January 24: 2008 Cook County State’s Attorney Candidates’ Forum on Chicago’s Felony Courts. The Cook County State's Attorney's Office, the second largest prosecutor's office in the United States, prosecutes all criminal cases involving misdemeanor and felony crimes committed in Cook County. During this forum, all candidates for Cook County state’s attorney on the February 5 ballot will comment on "A Report on Chicago’s Felony Courts," a recent research report on the Cook County Criminal Court by the Chicago Appleseed Fund for Justice and Chicago Council of Lawyers. Candidates will also discuss the state of the Cook County Criminal Courts system. The discussion will be moderated by Chicago-Kent professor and Chicago Council of Lawyers president Daniel T. Coyne. Confirmed participants include Tom Allen (D), Anita Alvarez (D), Tommy H. Brewer (D), Howard B. Brookins Jr. (D), Robert J. Milan (D), Tony Peraica (R), and Larry Suffredin (D). The forum, which is free and open to the public, will begin at 1 p.m. in the Governor Richard B. Ogilvie Auditorium. The program is co-sponsored by the Chicago Council of Lawyers, Chicago Appleseed Fund for Justice and Chicago-Kent. For more information, contact Malcolm Rich at ccl@chicagocouncil.org or (312) 988-6552.
January 28: Inaugural Chicago-Kent College of Law/Roy C. Palmer Civil Liberties Prize Lecture. Constitutional scholars and co-authors David D. Cole and Jules L. Lobel will discuss their award-winning book, Less Safe, Less Free: Why America Is Losing the War on Terror. Their book is a critical analysis of the civil liberties and geopolitical implications of the Bush administration’s "war on terror."
Georgetown University law professor Cole represents immigrants and U.S. citizens in cases involving claims of national security and terrorism and has litigated several major First Amendment cases. University of Pittsburgh law professor Lobel is an expert in emergency powers and the laws governing wars and has litigated major cases involving the application of international law in American courts, executive abuse of power, and infringement of civil liberties. Professors Cole and Lobel will speak in the Judge Abraham Lincoln Marovitz Courtroom from 2 to 3 p.m. A reception and book signing will be held immediately following the lecture.
The Chicago-Kent College of Law/Roy C. Palmer Civil Liberties Prize was established in 2007 by Chicago-Kent alumnus Roy C. Palmer ’62 and his wife, Susan, to honor an exemplary work of scholarship exploring the tension between civil liberties and national security in contemporary American society. For more information, contact Tasha Kincade, (312) 906-5006.
January 30: Defending the Damned: An Inside Look at the Cook County Public Defender’s Murder Task Force by author-journalist Kevin Davis is the topic of a panel discussion featuring Davis and assistant Cook County public defenders Woodward Jordan, Ruth McBeth, Marijane Placek and Robert Strunck ’79. Davis’ true-crime book focuses on the 2001 shooting of undercover Chicago police officer Eric Lee and its aftermath. The book also tells the stories of Aloysius Oliver, who was accused of the murder, and of the attorneys in the Murder Task Force assigned to represent defendants accused of capital crimes. The program, which is sponsored by the Chicago-Kent Chapter of the American Constitution Society, will begin at 4 p.m. in the 10th floor event room. A book signing and reception will follow the panel discussion. For more information, contact Professor Daniel Hamilton at (312) 906-5192.
February 13: Paul Finkelman, the President William McKinley Distinguished Professor of Law and Public Policy and senior fellow in the Government Law Center at Albany Law School, will address the topic "Regulating the African Slave Trade" in the 10th floor event room at 3 p.m. For more information, contact Professor Daniel Hamilton at (312) 906-5192.
February 27: "Chicago Lawyers in Chicago History" is the topic of a lecture by Chicago History Museum president and attorney Gary T. Johnson. Johnson spent more than 28 years as a lawyer and partner in the Chicago offices of two global law firms, Mayer Brown LLP and Jones Day. The program, which is sponsored by Chicago-Kent’s Institute for Law and the Humanities, will begin at 3 p.m. For more information, contact Professor Daniel Hamilton, (312) 906-5192.
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