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ESSAY
CENTERED:
THE THIRD DECADE OF
HOUSTON LAW REVIEW
Craig Joyce & Matthew Hoffman
As Houston Law Review entered the 1980s, the world
around it, and HLR’s host institution, were changing. The
College of Law, recognizing increasing specialization and
diversity of the practice of law, would reinvent itself, too. A
new HOUS. L. REV. for a new “Law Center”! Evening and
morning of the Third Decade.1
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Andrews Kurth Professor of Law, University of Houston Law Center. Matthew
Hoffman and I again express our deep gratitude to the student members of Boards 49 and
50 of Houston Law Review for their continued diligence, and also their tolerant patience
with our style and formatting peculiarities, in making possible this, the third installment
of a five-part history celebrating the occasion of the Review’s 50th Anniversary. Katherine
Witty of Board 50 continued to provide invaluable support during the preparation of this
essay, as did Board 50’s Editor in Chief Peter Danysh, Chief Articles Editor Casey Holder,
Managing Editor Cade Mason, and many others. Thanks, as well, to Christopher Dykes of
the O’Quinn Law Library staff, and to the Library’s Director and Deputy Director,
Spencer Simons and Mon Yin Lung. Mr. Hoffman and I are grateful also to Hon. Cathleen
Cochran (Herasimchuk) (Board 21), Derek Lisk and Joe Tixier (Board 25), Hunter H.
White (Board 26), and Robert J. Sergesketter and Hon. Jeff Brown (Board 32), all of
whom contributed to the present essay and were offered the opportunity to save the
authors from error, if they could. Not least among those to whom we are indebted, Mr.
Hoffman and I express our profound appreciation to all the members of Boards 21–30,
who actually lived the story that we have tried here to recount.
In keeping with the general practice in historical essays, all notations hereafter
appear as endnotes at the conclusion of this essay, where the reader will find also a
compilation of statistical trivia which the authors and the members of Board 50 hope will
enlighten and amuse, if not necessarily in equal degree.
Law Clerk to United States District Judge David Hittner; J.D. 2012, University
of Houston Law Center; Editor in Chief, Houston Law Review, Board 49.
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