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REV. 1481 (2002); Sidney Buchanan, Affirmative Action: The Many Shades of Justice, 39
HOUS. L. REV. 149 (2002); Sidney Buchanan, From Conservative Republican to Liberal
Democrat: A Political Journey, 39 HOUS. L. REV. 447 (2002); Sidney Buchanan, Reflections
on Teaching, 39 HOUS. L. REV. 1101 (2002); G. Sidney Buchanan, No Connecticut Yankee
in the Texas Supreme Court, 40 HOUS. L. REV. 931 (2003).

65. At least according to the literary critics of Board 34 who ably introduced him by
way of a brief introduction to his essay. Frank Kermode, Justice and Mercy in
Shakespeare, 33 HOUS. L. REV. 1155, 1155 (1996).

66. Id.

67. David Hittner & Lynne Liberato, Summary Judgments in Texas, 34 HOUS. L.
REV. 1303 (1998); Paul Steven Miller, The Americans with Disabilities Act in Texas: The
EEOC’s Continuing Efforts in Enforcement, 34 HOUS. L. REV. 777 (1997). Judge Harvey
Brown of the 152nd Civil District Court of Harris County additionally published two
articles related to the practice of law in Texas in Decade 4: Harvey Brown, Eight Gates for
Expert Witnesses, 36 HOUS. L. REV. 743 (1999); Harvey Brown, Daubert Objections to
Public Records: Who Bears the Burden of Proof?, 39 HOUS. L. REV. 413 (2002). Meanwhile,
Texas Supreme Court Justice Nathan Hecht paid tribute to his retiring colleague on the
court, Justice Raul Gonzalez, invoking all appropriate appellate decorum: “Mr. Chief
Justice and May It Please the Court.” Nathan L. Hecht, To Justice Raul A. Gonzalez on
His Retirement from the Supreme Court of Texas, 36 HOUS. L. REV. 391, 391 (1999).

68. Joel Seligman, The Quiet Revolution: Securities Arbitration Confronts the Hard
Questions, 33 HOUS. L. REV. 327 (1996).

69. Pamela S. Karlan, Just Politics? Five Not So Easy Pieces of the 1995 Term, 34
HOUS. L. REV. 289 (1997); Carol M. Swain, Not “Wrongful” by Any Means: The Court’s
Decisions in the Redistricting Cases, 34 HOUS. L. REV. 315 (1997); Richard H. Pildes, Two
Conceptions of Rights in Cases Involving Political “Rights,” 34 HOUS. L. REV. 323 (1997).

70. Harold Hongju Koh, Bringing International Law Home, 35 HOUS. L. REV. 623
(1998); Thomas M. Franck, Dr. Pangloss Meets the Grinch: A Pessimistic Comment on
Harold Koh’s Optimism, 35 HOUS. L. REV. 683 (1998); Robert O. Keohane, When Does
International Law Come Home?, 35 HOUS. L. REV. 699 (1998); Alex Kozinski, Who Gives a
Hoot About Legal Scholarship?, 37 HOUS. L. REV. 295 (2000); Lynn N. Hughes, Neo-
Scholasticism: Technique, Purpose, and Law Reviews, 37 HOUS. L. REV. 321 (2000).

71. In attendance at that year’s Lecture were “lawyers, judges, biblical scholars,
bibliophiles, members of the clergy, comparative religion experts, authorities on the
Middle East, law faculty, . . . and of course . . . students.” Craig Joyce, Welcome and
Introduction, 38 HOUS. L. REV. xi, xiv (2001).

72. A search of Westlaw’s “Federal Courts” database at the time of this essay’s
publication yields more than 3,000 citations to Nimmer on Copyright. Like Houston Law
Review, Nimmer on Copyright currently is celebrating its 50th anniversary.

73. See, e.g., Princess Fabrics, Inc. v. CHF, Inc., 922 F.2d 99, 104 (2d Cir. 1990)
(Oakes, C.J., concurring in part and dissenting in part); New Era Publ’ns Int’l, ApS v.
Henry Holt & Co., 873 F.2d 576, 585 (2d Cir. 1989) (Oakes, C.J., concurring); Brandir
Int’l, Inc. v. Cascade Pac. Lumber Co., 834 F.2d 1142 (2d Cir. 1987); Authors League of
Am., Inc. v. Oman, 790 F.2d 220, 224 (2d Cir. 1986) (Oakes, J., concurring); Kieselstein-
Cord v. Accessories by Pearl, Inc., 632 F.2d 989 (2d Cir. 1980); L. Batlin & Son, Inc. v.
Snyder, 536 F.2d 486 (2d Cir. 1976).

74. See, e.g., THE CONSTRUCTION OF AUTHORSHIP: TEXTUAL APPROPRIATION IN LAW
AND LITERATURE (Martha Woodmansee & Peter Jaszi eds., 1994).

75. Nader had no need for an exhaustively long curriculum vitae in his “author
footnote,” as so many other authors do. Rather, he was proud merely to be the founder of
“Public Citizen” (with an LL.B. from Harvard also in hand). Ralph Nader, Occupational
Safety and Health Act, 31 HOUS. L. REV. 1, 1 n.* (1994).

76. Id. at 2.

77. Although there is considerable scholarly debate about whether Ralph Nader
truly did “spoil” the 2000 presidential election for Al Gore, compare Barry C. Burden,
Ralph Nader’s Campaign Strategy in the 2000 U.S. Presidential Election, 33 AMER.