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Still, the huge expansion in the number of enrollees at the
law school ushered in by the opening of TUII could not be, or at
least was not, undone.21 Thus, when the full effects of TUII’s
expansion of the school’s physical campus came online with the
arrival in 1977–1978 of the third class to occupy the complex’s
newest building, total enrollment at the College of Law had
expanded likewise: from 501 in Board 1’s time to 1,137 when
Board 15 assembled for duty a mere 14 years later. Thus,
occupation of the new complex, in toto, had more than doubled
the College’s enrollment.22

A bigger school meant a bigger faculty, many of whom would
soon commit articles of high quality to HLR. During the 15 years
spanning the opening of the first buildings in the College of
Law’s new complex in 1969 through the occupancy of TUII in
1975, to the close of Decade 2 in 1983, the school—under Dean
John Neibel (1965–1974); Interim Dean A.A. White (1974–1976)
and Associate Dean Michael T. Johnson; Dean George Hardy
(1976–1980); Interim Dean Michael T. Johnson (1980–1981); and
Dean Robert L. Knauss (1981–1993)—hired an astonishing 49
new faculty members.23 The White/Johnson/Hardy deanships
proved to be particularly potent. Along with further articles by
holdovers from prior deanships, like A.A. White, Sidney
Buchanan, and John Mixon, HLR publications by new hires like