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stature, HLR, itself having grown to be recognized as a leading
national journal, could afford to be exceedingly selective in the
sorts of articles and backgrounds of authors it chose to publish.

Examples of the Review’s timely publication of scholarship
include Albert Lin of UC Davis opining on the Supreme Court’s
2003–2004 jurisprudence in Erosive Interpretation of
Environmental Law in the Supreme Court’s 2003–04 Term,
Lackland Bloom, Jr., of SMU commenting on the Court’s
affirmative action jurisprudence in Grutter and Gratz: A Critical
Analysis, Gregory Bowman of Mississippi analyzing the legal
ramifications of ever-expanding U.S. inbound cargo screening in
the wake of the September 11 attacks in Thinking Outside the
Border: Homeland Security and the Forward Deployment of the
U.S. Border, and Sarah Rudolph Cole of Ohio State addressing
the issue of class action arbitration in light of the 2011 iteration
of the Arbitration Fairness Act and recent Supreme Court
jurisprudence in On Babies and Bathwater: The Arbitration
Fairness Act and the Supreme Court’s Recent Arbitration
Jurisprudence.18

Yet the Review’s not-so-newfound national stature did not
cause it to yield entirely its dual commitment to continual
education of the local bar on important matters of practice. Judge
David Hittner of the United States District Court for the
Southern District of Texas returned to HLR with Summary
Judgments in Texas in Volume 46, and prominent Houston
appellate practitioner Lynne Liberato published Reasons for
Reversal in the Texas Courts of Appeals in Volume 48.19

Other bar-centered scholarship of Decade 5 included U.S.
District Judge Gray Miller’s Reviewing Arbitration Awards in
Texas and Edward J. Imwinkelried’s The Application of the
Attorney–Client Privilege to Interactions Among Clients,
Attorneys, and Experts in the Age of Consultants: The Need for a
More Precise, Fundamental Analysis.20 But perhaps the most
visible demonstration of HLR’s continued commitment to serving
the Texas bar was the introduction of HLRe, an online-only
descendent of Off the Record—the Review’s early attempt at
publishing practice-oriented materials separate from Houston
Law Review’s main content.21

While Decade 5’s spotlight shined brightly and deservedly on
the many prominent scholars of the various lectures and
symposia, the cumulative non-themed issue content of Volumes
41 through 50 leaps off the pages as comparable to the content to
be found among almost any peer journal nationwide. But there
was more.