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 18, 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.
Kosovo independence. The United States today extended formal recognition to Kosovo as "a sovereign and independent state." Action by the Bush administration came one day after Kosovo declared its independence from Serbia. "The establishment of these relations will reaffirm the special ties of friendship that have linked together the people of the United States and Kosovo," said Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. 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 will face. He is the author of a forthcoming book on the Kosovo Liberation Army. Professor Perritt is available for interviews.
New York Yankees pitcher Andy Pettitte apologized to fans and current and former teammates for taking human growth hormone during 2002. The left-hander was among 89 players who were named in the Mitchell Report on the use of performance-enhancing drugs in baseball. Pettitte, who gave a deposition and affidavit about his steroid use, was excused from testifying in last week’s congressional hearings. 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.
WebMD, MayoClinic.com and RightHealth.com are among the most popular among the more than 2,000 online sites devoted to health information. A recent USA Today story says the most successful sites are owned by large companies and institutions, have healthy advertising revenue and provide specialized content. Professor Eliezer Geisler, associate dean for research at Stuart Graduate School of Business and director of IIT’s Center for the Management of Medical Technology, is available for interviews.
Downtown Campus Events:
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/.
March 7: "Using Technology to Organize and Present Cases." This one-day seminar for litigators will explore how technology is used to present information to juries and mediation panels and how it may be used to manage complex commercial litigation. The program includes an interactive discussion of ethical concerns for practitioners dealing with digitized discovery. Participants will see demonstrations of innovative technology in opening and closing argument presentations, direct examination of expert witnesses, and mediation presentations. Presenters include Gera-Lind Kolarik, former television producer and president of Evidence Video; Illinois Appellate Court Justice and Chicago-Kent adjunct professor Warren D. Wolfson; Jeffrey J. Asperger, principal and founding member of Asperger Associates LLC; David A. Erickson, associate director of Chicago-Kent’s trial advocacy program and director of its program in criminal litigation; trial consultant Patricia F. Kuehn; and attorneys Gregory F. Coplan and Benjamin A. Crane of Coplan and Crane LLC. For more information, call (312) 906-5090 or visit www.kentlaw.edu/depts/cle/.
March 11: "Consumer Welfare v. Protecting the Competitive Process--An Atlantic Competition Law Divide?" is the topic of the 18th annual Henry Morris Lecture in International and Comparative Law delivered by Josef Drexl, co-director of the Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property, Competition and Tax Law in Munich, Germany. Drexl is also chair of the Academic Society for Competition Law. He has written extensively on international competition law and intellectual property law, European law, and comparative law. The lecture series is funded by the Henry Morris Endowment, established in memory of Henry Crittendon Morris, who graduated from Chicago-Kent College of Law in 1889. Mr. Morris enjoyed a distinguished career as an international lawyer and diplomat. The program, which is free and open to the public, begins at noon. For more information, call (312) 906-5090 or visit www.kentlaw.edu/depts/cle.
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