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and William & Mary. Sofaer’s Iran–Contra: Ethical Conduct and
Public Policy and Matthew’s Doing What Comes Naturally:
Antitrust Law and Hospital Mergers were joined by, among many
others, Form, Function, and Managed Care Torts: Achieving
Fairness and Equity in ERISA Jurisprudence, from Peter D.
Jacobson of Michigan, and The Legislative History of US Air
Pollution Control, from Arnold W. Reitze, Jr., of George
Washington.63

Prestigious professors in tow, Houston Law Review
additionally flexed its international muscles while
simultaneously maintaining its service to the bar throughout
Decade 4.64 Sir Frank Kermode, “one of the most influential
literary intellectuals of our time,”65 published Justice and Mercy
in Shakespeare, based on his lecture of the same name delivered
at the Law Center in April 1996.66 Judge David Hittner’s return
to HLR’s pages in Summary Judgments in Texas, along with
EEOC Commissioner Paul Steven Miller’s appearance in The
Americans with Disabilities Act in Texas: The EEOC’s Continuing
Efforts in Enforcement, offer further proof that, although now
decidedly national, the Review continued publishing highest
quality Texas-centered scholarship.67

The wide national reach and well-settled academic prowess
evident in HLR’s Decade 4 “as ever” scholarship soon would be
supplemented, in the most immediate and visible way possible,
by the emergence of the Review’s signature annual event.

The Frankel Lectures

The result of much ingenuity and ambition, with a healthy
dose of flawless execution, the inaugural installment of Houston
Law Review’s Frankel Lecture Series—The Quiet Revolution:
Securities Arbitration Confronts the Hard Questions68—was
keynoted by securities law expert Joel Seligman of Arizona, with
commentary from John C. Coffee of Columbia, Richard E. Speidel
of Northwestern, and Brandon Becker, a former Director of the
Division of Market Regulation at the Securities and Exchange
Commission. Over the remaining six years of Decade 4, the
Frankel Lectures would bring to the Law Center a parade of the
nation’s top scholars in their respective fields, pairing them with
the relevant legal topics of the day.

The Lecture’s second installment, featuring law professors
Pamela S. Karlan of UVA and Richard H. Pildes of Michigan and
public affairs professor Carol M. Swain of Princeton, was timed
appropriately to focus on voting rights through the prism of
redistricting, in anticipation of the coming battles following the