For more information, please contact:
Gwen Osborne, director of public affairs, (312) 906-5251
ADVISORY TO PRODUCERS, COLUMNISTS, AND ASSIGNMENT, LEGAL, PLANNING, INTERNATIONAL, ENVIRONMENTAL, HEALTH, RELIGION, BUSINESS, CITY DESK, FEATURES AND DAYBOOK EDITORS
CHICAGO–April 22, 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.
Earth Week 2008. April 22 is the 38th observance of Earth Day. Established by former Wisconsin senator Gaylord Nelson in 1970 as a teach-in to call attention to environmental issues, Earth Day celebrations have been expanded to month-long and week-long programs in many parts of the world. More than 500 million people in 175 countries observe Earth Day in some form.
Chicago-Kent College of Law and Stuart School of Business have experts available to discuss a variety of environmental issues.
- Chicago-Kent Distinguished Professor A. Dan Tarlock is director of the law school's Program in Environmental and Energy Law. Professor Tarlock, currently one of three U.S. special legal advisers to the NAFTA Commission on Environmental Cooperation, teaches courses in land use, property, energy and natural resource law; environmental policy; and international environmental law.
- Keith I. Harley, an adjunct professor at Chicago-Kent, serves as director of the Chicago Environmental Law Clinic. A 1988 Chicago-Kent graduate, Professor Harley is one of the few lawyers in the country who maintains a full-time practice devoted to environmental justice issues. He has tried several landmark cases involving environmental racism as a civil rights issue, the siting of incinerators in poor communities, and remediating lead in public housing and toxic releases in residential areas.
- Professor George P. Nassos is director of Stuart School of Business’ Center for Sustainable Enterprise and director of the school’s graduate environmental management programs. Professor Nassos focuses on developing and teaching sustainable business strategies that allow companies to remain competitive while protecting the environment. For the past four years, he has written a monthly column called "A Sustainable Environment: Our Obligation to Protect God’s Gift" that is published on the Internet.
- Stuart School Professor Nasrin R. Khalili teaches courses in environmental management, air and water pollution control, solid and hazardous waste management, and environmental risk assessment. Professor Khalili’s research focuses on the development of cost-effective and highly efficient catalysts for environmental redemption and treatment that are produced using waste material. Her work has resulted in efficient processes for conversion of biosolids and papermill sludge to carbon-based adsorbents and catalysts. In 2006, she led the award-winning IIT Interprofessional Program student team that developed a low-cost water filtration system that can be locally produced in Mexico without the use of electricity, chemicals or heavy maintenance.
- Adjunct professor John Paul Kusz teaches industrial ecology, a unique course at the Stuart School that integrates the technical, business and legal aspects of environmental management. Professor Kusz heads JPKusz Ltd., which focuses on developing technologies and strategies aimed at minimizing the negative impact of business on the environment. He has written more than two dozen articles on environmental problem-solving through product design and organizational change. Professor Kusz served on the U.S. EPA Peer Review Group's Product Life Cycle Assessment Project and wrote a study for the U.S. Congress’ Office of Technology Assessment on the correlation of corporate, economic and environmental trends in the household chemical products industry.
"Every day is Earth Day..." is the theme of the Chicago-Kent Environmental Law Society’s Earth Week observance. Students will explore issues related to the environment on the global, national, state, city and community levels. Students are collecting reusable and recyclable ink cartridges, cell phones, and athletic or rubber-soled shoes. The cell phones will be recycled for reuse by victims of domestic violence. The shoes will be donated to Nike Inc.’s Reuse-A-Shoe program, which will, in turn, recycle them into material used in basketball courts, athletic fields, playgrounds and other sports surfaces throughout the world. The week will end with a student service project revitalizing a local park. Environmental Law Society members are available for interviews.
Downtown Campus Events
April 24-25: 25th annual Conference on Section 1983 Civil Rights Litigation. This two-day seminar provides a comprehensive update, presented by leading practitioners and legal scholars, on liability arising out of Section 1983 and other civil rights statutes. Police misconduct, sexual harassment, municipal liability, individual immunities and procedural defenses, and recent and forthcoming cases before the U.S. Supreme Court are among the topics to be explored. For more information, call (312) 906-5090 or visit www.kentlaw.edu/depts/cle.
May 1: The Big Squeeze: Tough Times for the American Worker. New York Times reporter Steven Greenhouse will discuss his new book, The Big Squeeze: Tough Times for the American Worker. Greenhouse’s book explores how economic, business, political and social trends--among them globalization, the influx of immigrants, and what he calls "the Wal-Mart effect"--have fueled "the big squeeze." The program, which is free and open to the public, will begin at noon. A reception and book signing will follow Greenhouse’s presentation. For more information, please contact Professor Mary Rose Strubbe, (312) 906-5288 or mstrubbe@kentlaw.edu.
May 1-2: Edward D. Kleinbard, chief of staff of the U.S. Congress’ Joint Committee on Taxation, will deliver the luncheon keynote address on the first day of Chicago-Kent’s 27th annual Federal Tax Institute. The two-day program will review recent developments in tax law. Participants will also discuss state and local tax developments, "Tax Planning for Healthy Corporations," and financial accounting issues. For more information or to register, call (312) 906-5090 or visit the Web site: http://www.kentlaw.edu/depts/cle/.
May 18: Chicago-Kent Commencement. Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan will deliver the commencement address. Commencement ceremonies begin at 2 p.m. and will be held in the Arie Crown Theatre at McCormick Place’s Lakeside Center, 2301 S. Lake Shore Drive, in Chicago. More than 300 students are expected to receive Juris Doctor degrees, and approximately 75 Master of Laws degrees will be conferred.
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