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Medical Malpractice Handbook. This required a tremendous amount of work and
sacrifice by many . . . . [O]ur Managing Editor (Judy Bryan) gave birth to her
first child a day after graduation. Being the true professional that she is, we all
assumed that she voluntarily pushed back the due date so as not to interfere
with the publication of our last edition.

Questionnaire Response, Hunter H. White, Thompson & Knight LLP, Houston, TX (Apr.
4, 2012) (on file with Houston Law Review).

52. Board of Directors Meeting Minutes (Oct. 14, 1985) (on file with Houston Law
Review).

53. Id.

54. Board of Directors Meeting Minutes (Oct. 25, 1984) (on file with Houston Law
Review).

55. Apologies ‘R’ Us seems now to be a constant theme of these HLR essays. Fellow
professors. God. Will no one be spared?

56. G. Sidney Buchanan, State Authorization, Class Discrimination, and the
Fourteenth Amendment, 21 HOUS. L. REV. 1 (1984). “Captain Nice” had been prolific
beyond precedent in the previous ten years, having published 12 works, total, in HLR—3
articles and 9 book chapters.

57. For an in-depth discussion of the role that the Frankel Lectures and the IPIL
Symposia have played in the history of the Review, see Decade 4’s essay, forthcoming in
Volume 50, Issue 4. The Butler & Binion Lectures are treated in the Decade 3 narrative
above.

58. See Joyce & Hoffman, Boldly, supra, at 48–53 (detailing the increasing
prominence in Decade 2 of the “themed issue”).

59. Earl Maltz, Reconstruction Without Revolution: Republican Civil Rights Theory
in the Era of the Fourteenth Amendment, 24 HOUS. L. REV. 221 (1987).

60. James T. O’Reilly, Biotechnology Meets Products Liability: Problems Beyond the
State of the Art, 24 HOUS. L. REV. 451 (1987).

61. David Hittner, Summary Judgments in Texas, 22 HOUS. L. REV. 1109 (1985).

62. Is there a “citation opportunity cost” associated with publishing Texas-centered
scholarship in place of nationally relevant articles authored by nationally known law
professors? Perhaps occasionally. But quite the opposite is true of Summary Judgments in
Texas, the 1998 version of which had been cited 181 times at the time this essay went to
print—among the most highly cited articles in the history of the Review.

63. Carolyn Dineen King, A Matter of Conscience, 28 HOUS. L. REV. 955 (1991).

64. Board of Directors Meeting Minutes (Oct. 27, 1987) (on file with Houston Law
Review).

65. Id.

66. Indeed, by spring 1991 (when Volume 28, Issue 2, uniquely in Houston Law
Review’s experience, went to press containing no articles whatsoever), the Board of
Directors had become determined that HLR “get out of the [bookl publishing business.”
Board of Directors Meeting Minutes (Apr. 2, 1991).

67. Eugene A. Cook, Foreword to Robert P. Schuwerk & John F. Sutton, Jr., A
Guide to the Texas Disciplinary Rules of Professional Conduct, 27A HOUS. L. REV. 1
(1990).

68. After publishing Cathy Cochran’s Evidence, such projects were moved out of
HLR’s own processes into a parallel process of private publication that continued to
benefit HLR financially. See infra text accompanying notes 100–01.

69. Jim M. Perdue, The Law of Texas Medical Malpractice, 11 HOUS. L. REV. 1
(1973); James B. Sales, The Law of Strict Liability in Texas, 14 HOUS. L. REV. 1 (1976).

70. John T. Montford & Will G. Barber, 1987 Texas Tort Reform: The Quest for a
Fairer and More Predictable Texas Civil Justice System, 25 HOUS. L. REV. 59 (1988) (Part
One); John T. Montford & Will G. Barber, 1987 Texas Tort Reform: The Quest for a Fairer
and More Predictable Texas Civil Justice System, 25 HOUS. L. REV. 245 (1988) (Part Two);