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1. Cf. Genesis 1:13. With apologies, again, to the Deity; see also Craig Joyce,
Driven: The First Decade of Houston Law Review, supra, at 20 n.1. Unless otherwise
attributed to the Almighty or others, the materials in this essay are based solely on the
imperfect recollections of its senior co-author.

2. Philip C. Kissam, The Decline of Law School Professionalism, 134 U. PA. L. REV.
251, 263 (1986) (“American law has become extensive and complex in the twentieth
century, making it necessary for legal practitioners to specialize.”). The authors thank
Professor Michael A. Olivas, Director of the Law Center’s Institute for Higher Education
Law and Governance, for his kind assistance in locating the sources in notes 3–10.

3. George L. Priest, Social Science Theory and Legal Education: The Law School as
University, 33 J. LEGAL EDUC. 437, 437 (1983). Kissam, too, remarked at the time “the
fact of significant law faculty specialization during the past few decades is well
recognized.” Kissam, supra note 2, at 263–64 (1986) (citing Terrance Sandalow, The Moral
Responsibility of Law Schools, 34 J. LEGAL EDUC. 163, 165 (1984)). Kissam’s normative
analysis of the situation, however, was that the increasing specialization was unnecessary
for a law student’s legal development: “The extreme degree of specialization that reflects
the contemporary division of labor in American law practice is not essential for teaching
the new languages of legal analysis and legal argument to beginners.” Id. at 264.

4. Priest, supra note 3, at 440.

5. See Joyce, Driven, supra, at 4–8 (discussing the contrasting pedagogical
philosophies of Deans A.A. White and Newell Blakely).

6. Kissam, supra note 2, at 254.

7. Priest, supra note 3, at 440.

8. Kissam, supra note 2, at 262–63.

9. Priest, supra note 3, at 441.

10. Victor Fleischer, The Shift Toward Law School Specialization, N.Y. TIMES
DEALBOOK (Oct. 25, 2012), http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2012/10/25/the-shift-toward-law-
school-specialization/.

11. See Craig Joyce & Matthew Hoffman, Carry On Boldly: The Second Decade of
Houston Law Review, supra, at 41–44.

12. Not quite needless to say, the execution of inclusion principles of the sort chosen
for the faculty listing in the text above—faculty hires during Decade 3 who were
associated with the Law Center’s new institutes, centers, and programs—results in the
omission of other hires of the period who indisputably are outstanding scholars and
teachers in their own right, such as Robert Palmer (legal history) and Anthony R. Chase
(communications law and entrepreneurship law). Among others similarly victimized by
listing principles in the Decade 2 narrative were Robert P. Schuwerk, whose magisterial
treatise, A Guide to the Texas Disciplinary Rules of Professional Conduct, would appear in
HLR’s pages late in Decade 3, and Irene Merker Rosenberg, the Review’s first woman
faculty advisor (on the job for seven years), who also would publish seven times in
Houston Law Review.

13. The source of the accompanying block quote, as well as the one that follows
immediately in the text below, is Briefcase, Vol. 1, No. 4, at 1 (May 1982) (on file with
Houston Law Review). Many of the special programs named in the announcement already
had on board the faculty members who would push them to excellence in Decade 3 and
beyond, including the Energy Studies Program, now Environment, Energy & Natural
Resources (Jacqueline Lang Weaver); the Mexican Legal Education Program, now the
Center for U.S. and Mexican Law (Stephen Zamora); the Continuing Legal Studies
Program (David Crump); and the National College of District Attorneys, since
disassociated from the Law Center (John Jay Douglass). Other programs would be
enhanced or created by existing or new hires in the decade following the renaming of the
Law Center: Health Law & Policy (Mark Rothstein as director, with Laura Rothstein,
Mary Anne Bobinski, Seth Chandler, and William Winslade as associate directors);
Computer Law and Intellectual Property Law (Raymond T. Nimmer and Craig Joyce,