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(UC Berkeley), Rebecca Tushnet (Georgetown), Ronan Deazley
(Glasgow), and Catherine Seville (Cambridge), the participation
of such notable academics in the annual IPIL Symposium issue
firmly cemented the Review as a major center of IP scholarship
on an international scale.

Other Symposia. Although articles from the IPIL Symposia
and the Frankel Lectures together accounted for two of five
issues published in each volume during Decade 5, the Review
continued to receive valuable contributions to other, noninstitute
symposium issues. Although fewer in number, these other
symposia nonetheless accounted for some of the top professors to
appear in print during Houston Law Review’s fifth decade.

Volume 43’s The Booker Project: The Future of Federal
Sentencing, published one year after the Supreme Court ruled
that the federal sentencing guidelines were advisory rather than
mandatory,28 elicited contributions from Nancy J. King of
Vanderbilt, Douglas A. Berman of Ohio State, Ronald F. Wright
of Wake Forest, and Frank O. Bowman of Missouri. Volume 45’s
Thirty Years of Airline Deregulation: A Structure, Conduct and
Performance Review brought equally renowned scholars, with
contributions from Michael E. Levine of NYU, Shubha Ghosh and
Peter S. Carstensen of Wisconsin, and UH’s own Darren Bush.

Subsequent Decade 5 symposia included topics related to
health law, child-centered jurisprudence, and civil rights.
Authors came from NYU, Washington University, Emory, LSU,
Nebraska, and Arkansas. Although lacking Frankel’s name
recognition or IPIL’s organizational clout, the non-institute
symposia of Decade 5 nonetheless offered important and diverse
contributions to Houston Law Review.

The IPIL Spring Lectures

Not to be outdone by its annual National Symposium
counterpart, IPIL’s Spring Lecture—the Baker Botts Lecture—
brought numerous top-flight IP academics to HLR from across
the nation in Decade 5. The scholarship was outstanding from
the outset, when the series led off in 2004 with Jane C. Ginsburg
of Columbia delivering the first lecture, published in Volume 41
as The Right to Claim Authorship in U.S. Copyright and
Trademarks Law.29

Of equal stature, subsequent Spring Lecturers have included
Federal Circuit Judge Arthur J. Gajarsa and Professors Paul
Goldstein of Stanford, William O. Hennessey of Franklin Pierce,
F. Scott Kieff of Washington University, Douglas Lichtman of