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–February 5, 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.
February is Black History Month. Chicago-Kent has experts available to discuss a number of legal issues related to the African-American experience. For example, legal scholars are available to discuss landmark U.S. Supreme Court decisions, including:
Shelley v. Kraemer – In 1948, the Supreme Court struck down "racially restrictive covenants" in real estate deeds.
Jones v. Mayer Co. – In 1968, the justices said federal law prohibited racial discrimination in the sale or rental of public or private property.
University of California Regents v. Bakke – In 1978, court said that public universities may take race into account as a factor in admissions decisions.
Grutter v. Bollinger – In 2003, the court said that law schools’ limited use of race as a criterion in their admissions policies is constitutional.
The 13th Amendment abolished slavery. The 14th Amendment conferred citizenship on former slaves, and the 15th Amendment gave them the right to vote. Professor Daniel W. Hamilton is a legal historian who researches and writes primarily on American property ideology and the legal and constitutional issues raised by the Civil War. He is the author of The Limits of Sovereignty: Property Confiscation in the Union and the Confederacy During the Civil War, published by the University of Chicago Press. Professor Hamilton is available to discuss emancipation and the Constitution during the Civil War and the historical background of the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments.
Section 1983, perhaps the most important federal civil rights/civil liberties statute ever enacted, is found in Title 42 of the U.S. Code. Dating from 1871, it provides damage remedies for persons deprived of their constitutional rights by state, city and county officials and by local governments. Professor Sheldon H. Nahmod is a leading expert on constitutional law, civil rights and the law of Section 1983. He is the author of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Litigation: The Law of Section 1983. For the past 25 years, he has convened the Section 1983 Civil Rights Litigation Conference at Chicago-Kent. Professor Nahmod is available for interviews about Section 1983 and about this year’s conference, which will be held April 24 and 25.
Downtown Campus Events:
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. He has also served as co-chair of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights and continues to serve on its executive committee. 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.
February 29: "Navigating the ILSVP Process." This one-day continuing legal education program for judges, prosecutors and defense attorneys will focus on Illinois’ Sexually Violent Persons Act. Sessions will include information on the Illinois Department of Corrections’ evaluation criteria for potential SVP (sexually violent persons) respondents; Illinois Department of Human Services’ evaluation criteria and treatment standards; and treatment and detention facility policies and procedures. Speakers include Cook County Criminal Division presiding judge Paul P. Biebel Jr., Joelle Marasco, chief of the Illinois Attorney General’s Sexually Violent Persons Bureau, Illinois Department of Human Services associate director Dr. Guy C. Groot; Chicago-Kent professor Daniel Coyne; and Alyssa Williams, Illinois Department of Corrections’ coordinator for sex offender services. For more information, call (312) 906-5090 or visit www.kentlaw.edu/depts/cle/.
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