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HLR’s membership owing to the new College of Law buildings, they may have strained
the publication’s ability to maintain a constant flow of timely work.

In a joint oral history recording the recollections of Claudia Wilson (Frost)
(Editor in Chief of Board 19), Hon. Cathleen Cochran (Herasimchuk) (EIC of Board
21), Robert Sergesketter (EIC of Board 32 and the then-chair of HLR’s Board of
Directors), and Professor Emeritus Sidney Buchanan, Sergesketter explained the
Board of Directors’ current instruction to student editors concerning book projects:
“We’re not going to say never, but you have to come to us and ask ‘Mother, may I?’
before we will let you publish a book, because we’ve seen what can happen. It’s still
an open option, but it has to be the exact right option.” Oral History of Houston Law
Review with Professor Emeritus Sidney Buchanan; Hon. Cathleen Cochran, Texas
Court of Criminal Appeals; Claudia Frost, Partner, DLA Piper; & Robert
Sergesketter, Senior Counsel, Apache Corp. 11 (Oct. 11, 2012) [hereinafter Decade 2
Oral History] (on file with Houston Law Review).

45. See also Jerry V. Walker et al., The Application of Res Ipsa Loquitur in Texas
Medical Professional Liability Actions, 12 HOUS. L. REV. 1026 (1975).

46. Edward W. Turley, Jr., Changing Capital Structures and Shareholders in a
Closely-Held Texas Corporation, 11 HOUS. L. REV. 351 (1973).

47. Roy Ryden Anderson, Coercive Collection and Exempt Property in Texas: A
Debtor’s Paradise or a Living Hell?, 13 HOUS. L. REV. 84 (1975).

48. Michol O’Connor, Appealing Jury Findings, 12 HOUS. L. REV. 65 (1974).

49. Raymond T. Nimmer, Consumer Payment Systems: Leverage Effects Within an
Electronic Funds Transfer System, 17 HOUS. L. REV. 487 (1980).

50. Glenn J. MacGrady, Protection of Computer Software—An Update and Practical
Synthesis, 20 HOUS. L. REV. 1033 (1983).

51. Id. at 1033.

52. Newell Blakely et al., Texas Rules of Evidence Handbook, 20 HOUS. L. REV. 1
(1983). The Evidence Handbook receives fuller discussion in this essay hereafter.

53. A lesson the Review has adopted well, which the authors will chronicle in the
Decade 3 and Decade 4 essays.

54. Definition of Symposium, OXFORD DICTIONARIES, http://oxforddictionaries.com/
definition/english/symposium?q=symposium (last visited Oct. 29, 2012).

55. The term has been adopted here by the authors owing to the absence of a more
popularized alternative. As used, the term does not imply necessarily that the entire HLR
issue in question was devoted to the designated theme. Articles on other subjects, and of
course student notes and comments, frequently comprised the remainder of such issues.

56. William H. Hoffman & Ira B. Shepard, A Symposium on Tax Reform at the
Crossroads, 14 HOUS. L. REV. 1055, 1055 (1977).

57. David S. Caudill, Three Things I Learned from Buchanan About Being a Law
Professor, 41 HOUS. L. REV. 242 (2004).

58. Joseph H. King, Jr., The Duty and Standard of Care for Team Physicians, 18
HOUS. L. REV. 657 (1981).

59. Andrew K. Dolan & Richard S. Ralston, Hospital Admitting Privileges and the
Sherman Act, 18 HOUS. L. REV. 707 (1981).

60. Robert L. Schwartz & Joan M. Gibson, Defining the Role of the Physician:
Medical Education, Tradition, and the Legal Process, 18 HOUS. L. REV. 779 (1981).

61. Jim M. Perdue, An Analysis of the Physician’s Professional Liability for
Radiation of the Fetus, 18 HOUS. L. REV. 801 (1981).

62. See supra note 32 and accompanying text (relating Board 15 Editor in Chief
Robert Pittsford’s explanation for the numerous energy-themed issues of Decade 2).

63. Much more on this topic follows in the essays on Decades 3 and 4. Suffice it to
say here that the now-familiar annual IPIL Symposia and Frankel Lectures are the
“gems” of the modern-day Houston Law Review.

64. The first of the dedications refers obliquely to the buffetings “which beset[ ] a
dean,” even one who is a beloved professor when not tending to the often unpleasant