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POLITICS RES. 672, 672–73 (2005) (claiming that “Nader held the election in his hands”),
with Sam Smith, Nader Not Responsible for Gore’s Loss, PROGRESSIVE REV. (July 2002),
http://prorev.com/green2000.htm (finding that “Ralph Nader’s influence on the final
results [of the 2000 election] was minimal to non-existent”), and CHARLES L ZELDEN,
BUSH V. GORE: EXPOSING THE HIDDEN CRISIS IN AMERICAN DEMOCRACY (2008)
(painstakingly and dispassionately recounting the facts of the contest), there is little
debate about the importance to a law review of publishing such a recognizable public
figure. Cf. Kozinski, supra note 70, at 296 (“That judges care [about legal scholarship] can
be inferred from the fact that judges rely on academic pieces in their work: Law review
articles and legal treatises are cited in opinions on a regular basis. And it’s not just any
opinions, either; the opinions most likely to rely on the works of academics are those
written in the gray areas of the law where precedent doesn’t provide a clear-cut answer.”).

78. Joyce & Hoffman, Centered, supra, at 91–93 (listing Harvard, Yale, North
Carolina, Vanderbilt, Washington University, and Ohio State among the law schools
represented by the Health Law institute’s contributions to HLR in Decade 3).

79. See id. at 84.

80. For a full list of the Health Law & Policy Institute’s Symposia issues published
in Houston Law Review, see id. at 96 n.23.

81. See “Intellectual Property and Information Law” above for a discussion on
HLR’s historical proclivity for IP scholarship.

82. Pegram, supra note 18.

83. Linck, Kramer, & Ball, supra note 18; Raymond T. Nimmer, Images and
Contract Law—What Law Applies to Transactions in Information, 36 HOUS. L. REV. 1
(1999); David Nimmer, Copyright in the Dead Sea Scrolls: Authorship and Originality, 38
HOUS. L. REV. 1 (2001); L. Ray Patterson, Nimmer’s Copyright in the Dead Sea Scrolls: A
Comment, 38 HOUS. L. REV. 431 (2001); Niva Elkin Koren, Of Scientific Claims and
Proprietary Rights: Lessons from the Dead Sea Scrolls Case, 38 HOUS. L. REV. 445 (2001);
Neil Wilkof, Copyright, Moral Rights and Choice of Law: Where Did the Dead Sea Scrolls
Court Go Wrong?, 38 HOUS. L. REV. 463 (2001); Richard A. Lanham, Barbie and the
Teacher of Righteousness: Two Lessons in the Economics of Attention, 38 HOUS. L. REV.
499 (2001).

84. See Joyce & Hoffman, Centered, supra, at 84.

85. Who urged his peers, in a mutually deprecating sort of way, to continue
publishing with Houston Law Review: “The Houston article nags know something about
meandering-around law faculty in far off lands: Keep soliciting.” Trotter Hardy, The
Copyrightability of New Works of Authorship: “XML Schemas” As an Example, 38 HOUS.
L. REV. 855, 855 n.*.

86. In patent law, the PHOSITA, or “Person Having Ordinary Skill In The Art,” i.e.,
in lay language, a scientist or engineer of reasonable competence in the relevant field of
invention, is a familiar figure. Under § 103 of U.S.C. Title 35 (the Patent Act), a patent
will not be issued "if the differences between the claimed invention and the prior art are
such that the claimed invention as a whole would have been obvious before the effective
filing date of the claimed invention to a person having ordinary skill in the art to which
the claimed invention pertains."

87. Robert W. Hamilton, The Crisis in Corporate Governance: 2002 Style, 40 HOUS.
L. REV. 1 (2003); David B. Wilkins, Doing Well by Doing Good? The Role of Public Service
in the Careers of Black Corporate Lawyers, 41 HOUS. L. REV. 1 (2004).

88. Richard A. Posner, Misappropriation: A Dirge, 40 HOUS. L. REV. 621 (2003).

89. A Tribute to Professor G. Sidney Buchanan upon His Retirement, 41 HOUS. L.
REV. 237 (2004). Regarding Professor Buchanan’s nickname, see Joyce & Hoffman, Boldly,
supra note 2, at 54.

90. The information in the following paragraph combines recollections by one of the
co-authors of this essay with facts and figures provided by the long-time director of the
O’Quinn Law Library, Jon Schultz. E-mail from Jon Schultz to Craig Joyce (Mar. 9, 2013)
(on file with Houston Law Review).

91. The remainder of this section is based on Professor Joyce’s memories and the