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respectively), now merged as Intellectual Property & Information Law; Children, Law &
Policy (Laura E. Oren, founding co-director); Consumer Law (Richard Alderman);
Criminal Justice (Sandra Guerra Thompson); Higher Education Law & Governance
(Michael A. Olivas); and Law & Computation (Seth Chandler).

14. In addition to the concentrations named above, the Law Center offers a Foreign
Scholars LL.M., approved in 1983, but the degree appears to have had no impact on the
operations of Houston Law Review.

15. Also in 1985, the Computer Law Institute’s founder, Raymond T. Nimmer of the
Law Center faculty, won the Association of American Publishers’ “Best New Book in Law”
award for The Law of Computer Technology (currently in its fourth edition). Ironically, the
Institute itself began as a vehicle for providing Continuing Legal Education in computer
law through the University of Texas because Nimmer taught in Austin during the 1985–
1986 academic year and the School of Law there offered support for the effort. He
returned to the University of Houston the following year, continuing to run the CLE
through UT from the Law Center until he became Acting Dean in 1993–1995 and moved
the program formally to Houston, but otherwise expanding the Institute as an exclusively
UH program.

16. See JOHN MIXON, AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A LAW SCHOOL, app. VII, at 544–50
(2012).

17. See Joyce, Driven, supra, at 4–8; Joyce & Hoffman, Boldly, supra, at 41–44.
18. John B. Neibel, Implications of Robinson v. California, 1 HOUS. L. REV. 1, 1
(1963).
19. Unless otherwise noted, all other information concerning the Health Law
program in the following paragraphs is drawn from HEALTH LAW & POLICY INSTITUTE,
REFLECTIONS OF 20 YEARS: 1978–1998 (1998) [hereinafter REFLECTIONS] (on file with
Houston Law Review), supplemented by the personal recollections of this essay’s senior
co-author and his conversations with Mark Rothstein, the Institute’s director from 1986 to
2000. Many thanks to Laura Rothstein as well for her assistance.
20. The Rothsteins left the Law Center in 2000 when Laura became dean at the
University of Louisville’s Louis D. Brandeis School of Law and Mark accepted a joint
appointment at the School of Law and the School of Medicine, becoming the Herbert F.
Boehl Chair of Law and Medicine as well as the Founding Director of the Institute for
Bioethics, Health Policy and Law at the medical school. Their successor directors and co-
directors at HLPI have carried on ably at the University of Houston, but with the
discontinuation of the annual Health Law symposium issue after 2000, the Institute’s
association with Houston Law Review necessarily has become less active.
21. The review in the narrative above does incomplete justice to other
accomplishments of the Health Law & Policy Institute during the period under
discussion, solely because, in general, they had no direct impact of Houston Law Review.
For a fuller review of HLPI’s history and achievements, see generally REFLECTIONS, supra
note 19.
22. Prominent examples, among many, included former U.S. Secretary of Health
Education and Welfare Joseph A. Califano, Jr. (1989); San Antonio, Texas, Mayor and
future U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Henry Cisneros (1989);
Consumer Advocate Ralph Nader (1994); U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services
Donna Shalala (1996); and former U.S. Attorney General Dick Thornburg (2000).
23. Health Law Symposia issues published by Houston Law Review are listed
chronologically below:

May 1988 – Inaugural Health Law Issue
January 1989 – Health Care Quality in the Age of Cost Cutting
October 1989 – Health Care for an Aging Society
January 1991 – Mental Health in the 1990s
Spring 1992 – Legal and Ethical Issues Raised by the Human Genome Project
Symposium 1994 – New Challenges in Occupational Health