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millennium census.69 In the following years, the topics of
international law and the relevance of legal scholarship to the
judiciary brought commentators from Yale, NYU, Duke, the U.S.
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, and the U.S. District
Court for the Southern District of Texas.70

In the fifth installment, printed in 2001, HLR worked hand-
in-glove with Professor Joyce of the IPIL Institute to publish
David Nimmer’s Copyright in the Dead Sea Scrolls: Authorship
and Originality.71 As the author of Nimmer on Copyright (the
most highly cited secondary source in copyright law),72 Nimmer
ranks indisputably as one of the world’s foremost experts in his
subject. Joining him for the Lecture were Judge James Oakes of
the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and Martha
Woodmansee of Case Western Reserve, both of whom had made
their own unique impacts on copyright law (Oakes through key
judicial opinions73 and Woodmansee as a professor of English and
Law).74 The Frankel Lecture—this time with an assist from one
of the Law Center’s leading special programs—was taking the
Review to heights never before seen, at least not consistently.

The decade’s final lecture timely responded to the then-
recent collapse of Enron and the dot-com and telecom bubbles
under the weight of corporate misgovernance, drawing professors
from Vanderbilt, Illinois, and Texas (a year after professors from
Stanford, Miami, and Utah had opined on the Second
Amendment). Seven years in, at the end of HLR’s fourth decade,
the Frankel Lecture had brought to Houston Law Review the
kind of publicity on a national scale that both reflected the
Review’s established stature and helped escalate it.

Themed and Specialty Program Issues

Themed Issues. Ever-responsive to current (and, in this
instance, tragic) events of the day, HLR published in Volume 37
a symposium on School Violence, School Safety, and the Juvenile
Justice System, with contributions from Katherine Hunt Federle
of Ohio State, John Kip Cornwell of Seton Hall, Ira M. Schwartz,
Dean of the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Social Work,
and the Law Center’s own Irene Merker Rosenberg.

Other themed issues of the decade included an evidence
symposium featuring evidence gurus Edward Imwinkelried of
U.C. Davis and Richard D. Friedman of Michigan; a family law
symposium with an international law flavor that included
Supreme Court of Canada Justice Claire L’Heureux-Dube,
Georgetown professor Milton C. Regan, Jr., Ohio State professor
Joan M. Krauskopf, Wisconsin professor Marygold S. Melli, and