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Review figuratively face-down in the enormous puddle that
Allison had left in its wake? Or was there, possibly, a way back?

. . . GIZZARDS (AS IN “CONTENT”)
Not surprisingly, the events and decisions just recounted
had a tremendous impact within the covers of Houston Law
Review during Decade 4. As reflected in the contents of the
publication itself, the Review split ways amicably with one
institute but gained an equally beneficial relationship with
another, began to host and publish an annual lecture series on
par with any other nationwide in prestige of keynote and
commentary, and included among its non-symposia, non-themed
issue ranks more top-flight nationally renowned scholars than
editors of prior decades could have hoped to imagine.

As Ever
All walks of scholars took up residence in the “as ever”
precincts of Houston Law Review—those not a part of some
themed issue or symposium—during the Review’s fourth decade.
From Texas judges to British literary critics, from renowned law
professors to familiar faculty advisors, HLR’s wide-ranging and
well-established excellence was evident in these “as ever”
articles. What they had in common was the kind of prestigious
pedigree to which HLR’s readers had grown comfortably
accustomed in Decade 3. The Review continued to publish the
best. A habitual overachiever had hit its stride.
The usual professors from the nation’s top law schools
frequented Decade 4’s pages, only this time in greater
concentration than ever before. Bookended by UVA professor
Dayna B. Matthew in Volume 31 and Stanford professor
Abraham D. Sofaer in Volume 40, the non-symposia, non-themed
issue authors of Decade 4 included professors from Michigan,
Rutgers, Texas, Wisconsin, George Washington, U.C. Davis,
Alabama, Tennessee, Florida State, LSU, Maryland, Seton Hall,