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A Law Center, Anyone?

By the beginning of Houston Law Review’s third decade in
1983–1984, its host institution had ceased to grow physically,11
but the scope of its ambition, reflecting increased subject matter
specialization in the practice of law beyond the school’s cloisters,
had not. The College of Law would need to redefine—and, indeed,
to rename—itself.

The process of “centering” the College of Law—that is, of
encouraging specialization among its faculty, in their scholarship
and in the school’s curriculum, and through changes in
institutional structure—had begun during the Review’s Decade 2.

The hiring of faculty members who would create and run the
institutes, centers, and programs of Decade 3 actually dated to
the 1970s, which had produced the appointments of, among
others, Richard Alderman (specializing in consumer law), John
Jay Douglass (criminal prosecution), Richard F. Dole, Jr.
(commercial and trade secret law), Gilbert L. Finnell, Jr. (land
use and environmental law), James B. Gambrell (intellectual
property law), Raymond T. Nimmer (commercial, bankruptcy,
and computer law), Michael A. Olivas (higher education law and
governance), Jordan Paust (public international law), Ira B.
Shepard (tax law), Jacqueline Lang Weaver (oil and gas law), and
Stephen Zamora (private international law).

Decade 3 itself produced 25 more faculty hires. What follows
is a partial list of those appointments, indicating both the
specialization of each faculty member (as it would relate later to
the institutes, centers, and programs which came to the fore
during HLR’s third decade), as well as other services rendered to
Houston Law Review by the new hires:

David R. Dow (constitutional law): 3 articles in Hous. L.
Rev., 11 years as HLR Faculty Advisor

Craig Joyce (copyright law): 10 book chapters and 18
articles and other contributions, 5 years as Faculty Advisor

Peter Linzer (constitutional law): 2 articles

Laura E. Oren (family law): 3 articles, 6 years as Faculty
Advisor

Robert Ragazzo (corporate law): 1 article, 20 years as
Faculty Advisor

Laura Rothstein (health law): 1 article