For more information, please contact:
Gwen Osborne, director of public affairs, (312) 906-5251
ADVISORY TO PRODUCERS, COLUMNISTS, AND ASSIGNMENT, LEGAL, PLANNING, SPORTS, INTERNATIONAL, HEALTH, BUSINESS, CITY DESK, FEATURES AND DAYBOOK EDITORS
CHICAGO–April 27, 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.
April 29 marks the 100th day of the Obama administration. IIT Downtown Campus experts are available for interviews.
Swine flu quarantines in the U.S.? Although the United States has not imposed a large-scale quarantine since 1917, Chicago-Kent professor Felice Batlan says a few examples of past quarantines show how public health officials--even those with the best of intentions--have misused quarantines. "In 2006, the White House Homeland Security Council released the National Strategy for Pandemic Influenza Implementation Plan, which endorsed the use of quarantine and--in disturbing language--spoke of how law enforcement personnel and the military might be necessary to maintain quarantines by force," says Professor Batlan. She suggests the Obama administration should clearly state its position regarding quarantine and whether it supports the 2006 White House plan. Professor Batlan, who holds a Harvard law degree and a Ph.D. in history from New York University, is available for interviews about legal and historical issues related to quarantine.
Fifty-one percent of Americans surveyed in a new Gallup Poll favor ending the U.S. embargo against Cuba. The embargo, which was imposed in 1962, prohibits foreign-based subsidiaries of U.S. companies from trading with Cuba, travel to Cuba by American citizens, and family remittances to Cuba. Earlier this month, President Obama ordered the easing of certain restrictions that impact the more than 1.5 million Americans with relatives in Cuba. These include the removal of limits on travel and money transfers by Cuban-Americans to their families in Cuba; an increase in telecommunications links, such as radio, television and cell phones, with Cuba "to advance people-to-people interaction"; and an expansion of the types of humanitarian donations eligible for export to Cuba. While there is an increase in the numbers of politicians and business leaders who support an end to the embargo, the Obama administration is maintaining the embargo as a point of leverage that may be used to pressure Cuba to free political prisoners and normalize relations with the U.S. Chicago-Kent professor Bartram S. Brown is co-director of Chicago-Kent's Program in International and Comparative Law. Professor Brown is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and serves on the board of directors of Amnesty International USA. Professor Brown is available for interviews about the Cuban embargo and restrictions under the Cuban Democracy Act and the Helms-Burton Act.
May 1 is Law Day. In 1958, President Dwight D. Eisenhower issued the first proclamation for what was then called "Law Day U.S.A." May 1 was officially designated as "Law Day" in 1961 by a joint resolution of Congress. The American Bar Association has selected "A Legacy of Liberty: Celebrating Lincoln's Bicentennial" as this year's theme. ABA president H. Thomas Wells Jr. said, "Regarded by many as our nation's greatest and most eloquent president, Lincoln devoted much of his adult life to the practice of law. He was our quintessential lawyer-president." Chicago-Kent Dean Harold J. Krent is the author of Presidential Powers (New York University Press 2005). Dean Krent is available to discuss the use of executive privilege in the Lincoln administration.
Downtown Campus Events
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.
May 17: Chicago-Kent Commencement. William E. Kovacic, immediate past-chairman and a current commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission, will deliver the commencement address at Chicago-Kent College of Law's 2009 ceremonies. Commencement will begin at 3 p.m. in the Arie Crown Theater, 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 100 Master of Laws degrees will be conferred. (A complete bio of William E. Kovacic is available at http://www.kentlaw.edu/news/releases/commencement_2009.html.)
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