For more information, please contact:
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–February 11, 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.
Online campaign contributions for Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama were estimated at more than $500,000 an hour after his victory in the January 26 South Carolina primary. As a result, the Illinois senator raised more than $27 million online. That amount compares with the $27 million raised by 2004 presidential candidate Howard Dean over the course of his entire campaign. 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.
Congress will begin hearings this week on the use of steroids in Major League Baseball. Adjunct professor and sports attorney Eldon L. Ham, the author of Larceny & Old Leather: The Mischievous Legacy of Major League Baseball, is available for interviews.
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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