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retires, I hope Professor Buchanan takes his shot on
American Idol.85

I am the very model of Advisor to the Law Review;
Whenever things have gone askew, I’ve helped to set the
course anew;
I’m very erudite in any matters editorial,
And should be since I’ve been Advisor since time
immemorial;
After more than thirty years, I’ve knowledge categorical,
About the Law Review I can provide all facts historical.
Put to rhyme today’s events and all those that have gone
before,
And set them all to music from The Music Man or Pinafore.
(Chorus:)
And set them all to music from The Music Man or Pinafore,
And set them all to music from The Music Man or Pinafore,
And set them all to music from The Music Man or Pina-
pinafore.86

Professor Buchanan was the Houston Law Review . . . .87

Last but decidedly not least, there is the matter of GSB’s
scholarship—highly relevant to the work of the publication of the
journal to whom he was faculty advisor so long. During his career,
Professor Buchanan published widely in all manner of national law
reviews. But his first love always was Hous. L. Rev. Beginning with
The Privilege Against Self-Incrimination: To What Extent Should It
Protect a State Employee or Professional Licensee Against the Loss of
His State-Created Status?88 in 1967, Buchanan would publish an
astonishing 31 times in the pages of Houston Law Review—surely a
record of faculty productivity that will never be equaled.

What follows is a necessarily abbreviated appreciation of
perhaps the most famous of those contributions.

The Quest for Freedom

“[T]he thirteenth amendment had returned to the vanguard
of the civil rights movement.”89 As in Decade 1, the civil rights
movement in America continued to be of paramount importance
to the United States and the world (and thus, also, to U.S. law
schools and law reviews) during the early to mid-1970s. G.
Sidney Buchanan stepped up to the plate, and onto the national
stage, with The Quest for Freedom: A Legal History of the
Thirteenth Amendment.

Published as eight chapters in Volume 12 and one chapter in
Volume 13 of HLR, The Quest for Freedom helped to buttress the
Review’s emerging standing as a legal journal of true scope and