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legal experts from the United Kingdom, New Zealand, Australia,
and Canada; and a panel discussion on the death penalty with,
among others, New York Times columnist Anthony Lewis,
Pennsylvania Attorney General (and Planned Parenthood of
Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey litigator) Ernest D. Preate,
Jr., Yale law professor Stephen B. Bright, American University
Washington College of Law professor (and defense attorney for
Oklahoma City bomber Terry Nichols) Michael E. Tigar, and Law
Center professor and future founder of the Texas Innocence
Network David Dow.

Health Law and Policy Institute. “Public Citizen”75 and
presidential hopeful Ralph Nader introduced Houston Law
Review to his brand of public policy in the first issue of Decade 4,
characteristically pulling no punches in his assessment that “we
as a society do not take occupational health and safety seriously.
Period!”76 Along with Nader, the New Challenges in Occupational
Health Conference of 1994 featured Mary Becker of the
University of Chicago Law School and Thomas O. McGarity of
the University of Texas. Such contributions from the likes of a
future “Spoiler in Chief”77 and top national scholars had been
common among the Institute’s five symposia issues of Decade 3,
pushing health law to the top of HLR’s publication agenda almost
immediately.78 Prior to the Institute’s permanent departure from
the pages of HLR in 2000 in Decade 4,79 such heavyweights were
firmly established as the new normal.

Policymakers and professors alike joined the health law
debate in Decade 4, as many of the symposia topics bordered on
the joint edge of academia and public policy, including OSHA,
federal government finance, domestic relations, and the ADA.80
Besides Nader, included among the policymakers were U.S.
Secretary of Health and Human Services Donna E. Shalala,
former U.S. Attorney General Dick Thornburgh, Yale Medical
School Dean and former Commissioner of the Food & Drug
Administration David A. Kessler, and Houston Mayor Lee P.
Brown. But the Academy was not to be outdone, with
submissions from Henry T. Greely of Stanford, William M. Sage
and Allyn L. Taylor of Columbia, Peter Edelman of Georgetown,
Clark C. Havighurst of Duke, Walter Wadlington of UVA, Larry
I. Palmer of Cornell, Lars Noah of Florida, Susan M. Wolf of
Minnesota, and Karen H. Rothenberg of Maryland.

Following the Health Law institute’s final published
symposium issue in 2000, HLR and HLPI would part ways on
more-than-amicable terms, the Institute in search of its own
specialty journal and the Review in pursuit of another institute.