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Patents Without Paper: Proving a Date of Invention with Electronic Evidence, 36 HOUS. L.
REV. 471 (1999); and Jerre B. Swann, Sr., Dilution Redefined for the Year 2000, 37 HOUS.
L. REV. 729 (2000).

55. Board Report (Apr. 11, 2000) (on file with Houston Law Review).

56. See Joyce, Driven, supra, at 18.

57. See Joyce & Hoffman, Boldly, supra, at 41–42.

58. See Joyce, Driven, supra, at 23 n.53.

59. The account that follows relies almost exclusively on the memories of Craig
Joyce, long-time chair of the Law Center’s Facilities Policy and Planning Committee, who
thanks Robert Gonzalez, the school’s Allison-era facilities manager, for reviewing the data
for accuracy. E-mail from Robert Gonzalez to Craig Joyce (Mar. 15, 2013) (on file with
Houston Law Review).

60. For more information on John M. O’Quinn, see id. at 18–20.

61. Judge Brown (1909–1993), an expert in admiralty law and a great judicial
stylist, figured importantly in the desegregation of the American South, serving from
1967 to 1979 as Chief Judge of the Fifth Circuit (which stretched from Texas to Florida
before the creation of the Eleventh Circuit in 1981) during a period marked by the
courageous service of Brown and his fellow judges in most hostile circumstances. See
generally JACK BASS, UNLIKELY HEROES (1990). The papers were acquired from the
Judge’s widow, Vera Brown, in 1993 by Dean Robert L. Knauss and Professor Craig Joyce
and then lovingly indexed by the O’Quinn Law Library staff. Sadly, they lay in Allison’s
path on June 9, 2001. Of the 306 boxes of papers received, ultimately 102 were rescued
and have been preserved.

62. The facilities committee chair was not alone that morning. Jon Schultz, the
long-time director of the law library, arrived in hip boots—not nearly enough protection in
the circumstances—and was overcome. Also present, surprisingly, was an entrepreneur
named Don Hartsell, who had invented various devices that would prove to be hugely
useful in the aftermath of Allison, including technology to pump chilled air throughout
the now totally disabled Law Center complex, thereby in due course arresting the spread
of mold and mildew, and another device that freeze-dried waterlogged documents, making
it possible to salvage partially at least some of the papers and books that had drowned in
the storm. The facilities chair pointed out to the entrepreneur that downtown Houston
was prostrate. Institutions like Bank of America, where one person died in an elevator
while trying to salvage her car in the underground garage, would be willing to pay a
fortune for his services, and certainly far more than the Law Center could. Why had he
decided to offer his services to us? Back came the answer. Hartsell was a graduate of the
Law Center—and fondly remembered his instruction, in none other than intellectual
property law, where he had made his career. He was a proud alum. He simply wanted to
help the Law Center in its hour of maximum need.

63. Abraham D. Sofaer, Iran–Contra: Ethical Conduct and Public Policy, 40 HOUS.
L. REV. 1081 (2003); Dayna B. Matthew, Doing What Comes Naturally: Antitrust Law and
Hospital Mergers, 31 HOUS. L. REV. 813 (1994); Peter D. Jacobson & Scott D. Pomfret,
Form, Function, and Managed Care Torts: Achieving Fairness and Equity in ERISA
Jurisprudence, 35 HOUS. L. REV. 985 (1998); Arnold W. Reitze, Jr., The Legislative History
of U.S. Air Pollution Control, 36 HOUS. L. REV. 679 (1999).

64. Among the faculty of the Law Center, Sidney Buchanan, a.k.a. Captain Nice,
ensured that UHLC faculty would not be crowded out entirely by the emergence in
Decade 4 of such prestigious page-turners as the Frankel Lectures and the IPIL
Symposium issues, authoring nine articles in the course of the decade: G. Sidney
Buchanan, A Conceptual History of the State Action Doctrine: The Search for
Governmental Responsibility, 34 HOUS. L. REV. 333 (1997) (Part 1); G. Sidney Buchanan,
A Conceptual History of the State Action Doctrine: The Search for Governmental
Responsibility, 34 HOUS. L. REV. 665 (1997) (Part 2); G. Sidney Buchanan, The Scope of
State Autonomy Under the United States Constitution, 37 HOUS. L. REV. 341 (2000);
Sidney Buchanan, A Constitutional Cross-Road for Gay Rights, 38 HOUS. L. REV. 1269
(2001); Sidney Buchanan, The Abortion Issue: An Agonizing Clash of Values, 38 HOUS. L.