For more information, please contact:
Gwen Osborne, director of public affairs, (312) 906-5251
ADVISORY TO PRODUCERS, COLUMNISTS AND ASSIGNMENT, LEGAL, BUSINESS, POLITICAL, PLANNING, CITY DESK, FEATURES AND DAYBOOK EDITORS
CHICAGO–September 15, 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.
Downtown Campus Events:
September 22: Lewis Collens Atrium Unveiling. The law school will honor Lewis Collens, president emeritus of Illinois Institute of Technology and dean emeritus of Chicago-Kent. Collens, who returned to Chicago-Kent following his retirement as IIT president, has been a member of the faculty since 1970. He served as dean of the law school from 1974 to 1990. Under his leadership, the law school became widely known for its innovative programs, distinguished faculty and outstanding student body. He received his law degree in 1966 from the University of Chicago, where he served on the University of Chicago Law Review and was elected to the Order of the Coif. He also holds bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Illinois. Collens has been a Law and Humanities Fellow at Harvard Law School. He served as president of Illinois Institute of Technology from 1990 to 2007. Prior to joining IIT Collens practiced law in Chicago and Washington, D.C., and was co-founder and chairman of BAR/BRI Educational Publishing Co. The ceremony and reception will begin at 5:30 p.m. For more information, please call Lisa Turley at (312) 906-5240.
October 10: 2008 Chicago-Kent College of Law/Roy C. Palmer Civil Liberties Lecture. Harold H. Bruff, the Charles Inglis Thomson Professor at the University of Colorado at Boulder Law School, will discuss his award-winning book, Bad Advice: The President’s Lawyers in the War on Terrorism. Professor Bruff presents a political and historical analysis of the complex relationship between American presidents and their legal advisors-- particularly in times of crisis. The book examines President George W. Bush’s unprecedented claims of unilateral executive power in the aftermath of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks through a discussion of the administration’s authorization of warrantless surveillance by the National Security Agency, the detention and trials of "enemy combatants," and the methods of interrogation used on detainees. The author asserts that strict interpretation of the constitutional separation of powers by presidential legal advisors could lessen the tensions between national security interests and the rule of law. Professor Bruff has been a member of the University of Colorado at Boulder Law School since 1996. He received his B.A. in American history and literature from Williams College, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. Professor Bruff received his J.D. magna cum laude from Harvard Law School, where he was editor of the Harvard Law Review. The program, which begins in the Judge Abraham Lincoln Marovitz Courtroom at 1 p.m., is free and open to the public, but reservations are requested. To R.S.V.P. or for more information, please call Tasha Kincade at (312) 906-5006 or tkincade@kentlaw.edu.
October 15: "Patentable Subject Matter: Anything Under the Sun Made by Man . . . Really?" is the topic of the fifth annual Federal Circuit Clerk Roundtable. The roundtable, composed of former Federal Circuit clerks, is a discussion of current developments in patent law. Chicago-Kent professor Timothy R. Holbrook, who served as a clerk to the Honorable Glenn L. Archer Jr., former chief judge of the Federal Circuit, will serve as moderator. The program, which begins at 3 p.m., is free and open to the public. For more information, please call (312) 906-5128.
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