For more information, please contact:
Gwen Osborne, director of public affairs, (312) 906-5251
ADVISORY TO PRODUCERS, COLUMNISTS, AND ASSIGNMENT, LEGAL, PLANNING, INTERNATIONAL, ENVIRONMENTAL, BUSINESS, CITY DESK, FEATURES AND DAYBOOK EDITORS
CHICAGO–April 13, 2009–Chicago-Kent College of Law and Stuart School of Business have experts available to discuss current issues. To reach experts on IIT's Downtown Campus, please call Gwen Osborne, director of public affairs, (312) 906-5251. Press releases and earlier advisories are available on our Web site: www.kentlaw.edu/news/advisory.
Earth Week 2009. April 22 is the 39th 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.
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 five 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.
Downtown Campus Events
April 15: "Free Speech and Human Dignity." Chicago-Kent professor Steven J. Heyman will discuss his book Free Speech and Human Dignity (Yale University Press 2008). Professor Heyman will address the positions of liberals and progressives who have been sharply divided between strongly advocating free speech and advocating the regulation of speech to protect human dignity and equality. His scholarship seeks to reconcile these opposing views by developing a liberal humanist theory of the First Amendment. Professor Heyman then applies this theory to a wide range of controversies--from hate speech and pornography to anti-abortion demonstrations and picketing at military funerals. This program, sponsored by the Chicago-Kent chapter of the American Constitution Society, will begin at 3 p.m. in room 170. For more information, please contact Julia Ellis at jellis@kentlaw.edu.
April 15: Adjunct professor J.P. Kusz, associate director of Stuart School of Business' Center for Sustainable Enterprise, will address the topic "The Sobering Search for Sustainable Solutions in a Market Economy." Professor Kusz, who is also president of JPKusz Ltd., will share strategies he has used and explored in his search for sustainable solutions in a market economy. He will engage participants in challenging the mental models that may limit their potential to make "sustainability" real. Professor Kusz will discuss the components of a company's "sustainability initiative" portfolio. The program, which is free and open to the public, will begin at 4 p.m. in room 590. For more information, call (312) 906-6543.
April 20: Stuart School of Business' Environmental Management and Sustainability Luncheon. Adjunct professor J.P. Kusz, associate director of Stuart School of Business' Center for Sustainable Enterprise, will address the topic "Sharing a Sustainable Vision, Shaping a Sustainable Future." To register, please visit the Web site http://iit-grad.gotoextinguisher.com/survey/index.php?id=144 or call (312) 906-6576.
April 22: The Chicago-Kent Environmental Law Society Auction will benefit the organization's Summer Fellowship Program. Items include gift certificates to organic grocery stores, "green" restaurants and "a great bike package." The event will be held from 5 to 8 p.m. in the 10th floor event room. For more information, contact Katy Lemanski at klemanski@kentlaw.edu.
April 22: Suzanne Malec-McKenna, commissioner of the City of Chicago's Department of Environment, will discuss "Chicago's Climate Action Plan" at an Earth Day presentation at Stuart School of Business. The city's plan outlines 26 actions to reduce greenhouse gases and nine actions to prepare for climate change. The proposal seeks to help the city, its residents, and its businesses reduce greenhouse gases by 25 percent below 1990 levels by 2020 and 80 percent below 1990 levels by 2050. The program, which is free and open to the public, will begin at 6 p.m. in room 590. For more information, call (312) 906-6543.
April 23 and 24: 27th 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. Prima facie cases against individuals, police misconduct, municipal liability, individual immunities and procedural defenses are among the topics to be explored. Erwin Chemerinsky, founding dean of the University of California-Irvine School of Law, will discuss recent and forthcoming cases before the U.S. Supreme Court. Sheldon H. Nahmod, distinguished professor of law and a leading expert on Section 1983 law, will provide commentary following Dean Chemerinsky's remarks. For more information, call (312) 906-5090 or visit www.kentlaw.edu/depts/cle.
April 24: Environmental Law Society Rainbow Beach Service Day. Society members will pick up litter at Rainbow Beach (Lake Michigan between 75th and 78th streets) in Chicago as part of its Earth Week observance. Students will leave at noon from Chicago-Kent's Lewis Collens Atrium. Environmental Law Society members are available for interviews. To reach them, contact Katy Lemanski at klemanski@kentlaw.edu or (269) 267-4442.
April 30 and May 1: Clarissa Potter, acting chief counsel of the Internal Revenue Service, will deliver the keynote address on the first day of Chicago-Kent's 28th Federal Tax Institute. The two-day program will review recent developments in federal, state and local tax law. For more information or to register, call (312) 906-5090 or visit the Web site: http://www.kentlaw.edu/depts/cle.
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