• Stanley F. Birch, Jr. & Craig Joyce, Tributes to Professor L. Ray Patterson

• L. Ray Patterson & Stanley F. Birch, Jr., A Unified Theory of Copyright (Craig Joyce ed., 2009), printed in 46 Hous. L. Rev. 215 (2009).

Article

• Jody Lyneé Madeira, When It’s So Hard to Relate: Can Legal Systems Mitigate the Trauma of Victim-Offender Relationships, 46 Hous. L. Rev. 401 (2009). (Westlaw)

Essay

• W. Michael Schuster, For the Greater Good: The Use of Public Policy Considerations in Confirming Chapter 11 Plans of Reorganization, 46 Hous. L. Rev. 467 (2009). (Westlaw)

Comments

• J. Mark Deaton, Further Forks in the Road Ahead: Clarity Still Needed in Chapter 13 Bankruptcy “910″ Car Claims, 46 Hous. L. Rev. 499 (2009). (Westlaw)

• Russell T. Gips, From China With Lead: The Hasty Reform of the Consumer Product Safety Commission, 46 Hous. L. Rev. 545 (2009). (Westlaw)

• Rebekah Davis Reed, Ad Astra Per Aspera: Shaping a Liability Regime for the Future of Space Tourism, 46 Hous. L. Rev. 585 (2009). (Westlaw)

Note

• Adam K. Nalley , Did Student Speech Get Thrown Out With the Banner? Reading “Bong Hits 4 Jesus” Narrowly to Uphold Important Constitutional Protections for Students, 46 Hous. L. Rev. 615 (2009). (Westlaw)

Negusie v. Holder, No. 07-499, 555 U.S. ___ (2009).

For complete details on the Write-on Competition, see the Write-On Competition information page.

Good Luck.

Essay

• Geoffrey C. Hazard, Jr., Legal and Managerial “Cultures” in Corporate Representation, 46 Hous. L. Rev. 1 (2009). (Westlaw)

Commentaries

• Edward B. Rock, The General Counsel of a Nonprofit Enterprise: Some Questions, 46 Hous. L. Rev. 17 (2009). (Westlaw)

• Stephen V. Arbogast, Commentary on Legal and Managerial “Cultures” in Corporate Representation, 46 Hous. L. Rev. 33 (2009). (Westlaw)

Comments

• Nicholas P. Dickerson, What Makes the Internet So Special? And Why, Where, How, and by Whom Should Its Content Be Regulated?, 46 Hous. L. Rev. 61 (2009). (Westlaw)

• Mark E. Smith, Going to the Dogs: Evaluating the Proper Standard for Narcotic Detector Dog Searches of Private Residences, 46 Hous. L. Rev. 103 (2009). (Westlaw)

• William Roquemore Taylor, Federalizing Street Crime: The Improper Broadening of RICO’s “Affecting Commerce” Requirement, 46 Hous. L. Rev. 139 (2009). (Westlaw)

Note

• Scott Looper , Reading Roberts: A Critical Framework for Analyzing the Supreme Court’s Decision in Leegin Creative Leather Products, Inc. v. PSKS, Inc., 46 Hous. L. Rev. 177 (2009). (Westlaw)

• Michael J. Malinowski, Dealing with the Realities of Race and Ethnicity: A Bioethics-Centered Argument in Favor of Race-Based Genetics Research, 45 Hous. L. Rev. 1415 (2008). (Westlaw)

Commentaries

• Timothy Caulfield, Defining “Race” as the Defining Problem, 45 Hous. L. Rev. 1475 (2009). (Westlaw)
• Cheryl Mwaria, Enabling Patent Law’s Inherent Anticipation Doctrine, 45 Hous. L. Rev. 1483 (2009). (Westlaw)
• Michael J. Malinowski, Respecting, Rather than Reacting to, Race in Basic Biomedical Research: A Response to Professors Caulfield and Mwaria, 45 Hous. L. Rev. 1489 (2009). (Westlaw)

Articles

• Robert Batey, Categorical Bars to Execution: Civilizing the Death Penalty, 45 Hous. L. Rev. 1493 (2009). (Westlaw)
• Robert Steinbuch, Kidneys, Cash, and Kashrut: A Legal, Economic, and Religious Analysis of Selling Kidneys, 45 Hous. L. Rev. 1529 (2009). (Westlaw)
• Liza Vertinsky, Reconsidering Patent Licensing in the Aftermath of Medimmune, 45 Hous. L. Rev. 1609 (2008). (Westlaw)
• Sandra Zellmer, Preemption by Stealth, 45 Hous. L. Rev. 1659 (2008). (Westlaw)

Essays

• Robert John Araujo, S.J., Abortion from Privacy to Equality: the Failure of the Justifications for Taking Human Life, 45 Hous. L. Rev. 1737 (2009). (Westlaw)
• Richard K. Greenstein, Determining Facts: The Myth of Direct Evidence, 45 Hous. L. Rev. 1801 (2009). (Westlaw)

Comments

• Omar Randi Ebeid, Death by Association: Conspiracy Liability and Capital Punishment in Texas, 45 Hous. L. Rev. 1831 (2009). (Westlaw)
• David L. Lane, Twice Bitten: Denial of the Right to Counsel in Successive Prosecutions by Separate Sovereigns, 45 Hous. L. Rev. 1869 (2009). (Westlaw)

Introduction

• Greg R. Vetter, Introduction, 45 Hous. L. Rev. 1031 (2008). (Westlaw)

Articles

• Arti K. Rai, Building A Better Innovation System: Combining Facially Neutral Patent Standards With Therapeutics Regulation , 45 Hous. L. Rev. 1037 (2008). (Westlaw)
• Rebecca S. Eisenberg, Noncompliance, Nonenforcement, Nonproblem? Rethinking The Anticommons In Biomedical Research, 45 Hous. L. Rev. 1059 (2008). (Westlaw)
• Janice M. Mueller and Donald S. Chisum, Enabling Patent Law’s Inherent Anticipation Doctrine, 45 Hous. L. Rev. 1101 (2008). (Westlaw)
• Paul J. Heald, Optimal Remedies For Patent Infringement: A Transactional Model, 45 Hous. L. Rev. 1165 (2008). (Westlaw)
• Michael J. Meurer, Inventors, Entrepreneurs, And Intellectual Property Law, 45 Hous. L. Rev. 1201 (2008). (Westlaw)

Fifth Annual Baker Botts Lecture

• Robert P. Merges, The Concept of Property in the Digital Era, 45 Hous. L. Rev. 1239 (2008). (Westlaw)

Comments

• M. Natalie Alfaro, Barring Validity Challenges Through No-Challenge Clauses And Consent Judgments: Medimmune’s Revival Of The Lear Progeny, 45 Hous. L. Rev. 1277 (2008). (Westlaw)
• James M. Garrett, “Congrats! You’ve Been Pre-Approved!”: Determining the Correct Approach to a Firm Offer Of Credit, 45 Hous. L. Rev. 1311 (2008). (Westlaw)
• Kason D. Kerr, A Judicial Analysis of the Satellite Radio Merger: Creation of the Next Led Zeppelin or Simple Garage Band?, 45 Hous. L. Rev. 1345 (2008). (Westlaw)

Note

• Chris Koepke, Panetti v. Quarterman: Exploring The Unsettled And Unsettling, 45 Hous. L. Rev. 1383 (2008). (Westlaw)

Criminal hazing was the subject of a 2002 Houston Law Review article - Scott R. Rosner & R. Brian Crow, Institutional Liability for Hazing in Interscholastic Sports, 39 Hous. L. Rev. 275 (2002). The article was mentioned in media coverage of the event. Above the Law, Grand Jury Overreaction Indictment of the Day: ‘Mean Girls’ Get No Love In Texas.

• Ryan C. Black and James F. Spriggs II, An Empirical Analysis of the Length of U.S. Supreme Court Opinions, 45 Hous. L. Rev. 621 (2008).
• Prentiss Cox, Foreclosure Reform Amid Mortgage Lending Turmoil: A Public Purpose Approach, 45 Hous. L. Rev. 683 (2008).
• Brent E. Newton, Almendarez-Torres and the Anders Ethical Dilemma, 45 Hous. L. Rev. 683 (2008).
• Scott Phillips, Racial Disparities in the Capital of Capital Punishment, 45 Hous. L. Rev. 807 (2008). (Additional Figures and Tables)
• Ediberto Roman, The Alien Invasion?, 45 Hous. L. Rev. 841 (2008).
• Ned W. Waxman and Justin H. Rucki, Chapter 7 Bankruptcy Abuse: Means Testing Is Presumptive, but “Totality” Is Determinative, 45 Hous. L. Rev. 901 (2008).

Essay

• Judge Gray H. Miller and Emily Buchanan Buckles, Reviewing Arbitration Awards in Texas, 45 Hous. L. Rev. 939 (2008).

The Yale L. Rosenberg Memorial Lecture

• David R. Dow, The Last Execution: Rethinking the Fundamentals of Death Penalty Law, 45 Hous. L. Rev. 963 (2008).

Comment

• Nikki D. Kessling, Why the Target “Nexus Test” Leaves Disabled Americans Disconnected: A Better Approach to Determine Whether Private Commercial Websites Are “Places of Public Accommodation”, 45 Hous. L. Rev. 991 (2008).

• Darren Bush, Introduction, 45 Hous. L. Rev. 287 (2008).

Article

• James Reitzes & Diana Moss, Airline Alliances and Systems Competition, 45 Hous. L. Rev. 293 (2008).

Commentary

• Michael E. Levine, Airline Alliances and Systems Competition: Antitrust Policy Toward Airlines and the Department of Justice Guidelines, 45 Hous. L. Rev. 333 (2008).

Article

• Shubha Ghosh & Darren Bush, Predatory Conduct and Predatory Legislation: Exclusionary Tactics in Airline Markets, 45 Hous. L. Rev. 343 (2008).

Commentary

• Chris Sagers, Raising the Price of Pork in Texas: A Few Thoughts on Ghosh, Bush and the Future of the Antitrust Immunities, 45 Hous. L. Rev. 395 (2008).

Article

• Paul Stephen Dempsey, The Financial Performance of the Airline Industry Post-Deregulation, 45 Hous. L. Rev. 421 (2008).

Commentary

• Peter C. Carstensen, The Poor Financial Performance of Deregulated Airlines: Competition As Causation or Only Correlation?Reflections on Professor Dempsey’s Article, 45 Hous. L. Rev. 487 (2008).

Comments

• Comment: Too Little, Too Late: Why the Pension Protection Act of 2006 Will Not Live Up to Its Name, 45 Hous. L. Rev. 509 (2008).
• Comment: The Dubious Value of Hatch-Waxman Exclusivity, 45 Hous. L. Rev. 555 (2008).
• Comment: Transatlantic Turbulence: The Passenger Name Record Conflict, 45 Hous. L. Rev. 587 (2008).

Yet Harris County’s capital justice system has not been the subject of intensive research — until now. A new study to be published in The Houston Law Review this fall has found two sorts of racial disparities in the administration of the death penalty there, one commonplace and one surprising.

The Twelfth Annual Frankel Lecture

Foreward

• Michael A. Olivas, Immigrants in the Administrative State and the Polity Following Hurricane Katrina, 45 Hous. L. Rev. 1 (2008).

Article

• Kevin R. Johnson, Hurricane Katrina: Lessons about Immigrants in the Administrative State, 45 Hous. L. Rev. 11 (2008).

Commentaries

• Raquel E. Aldana, Silent Victims No More?: Moral Indignation and the Potential for Latino Political Mobilization in Defense of Immigrants, 45 Hous. L. Rev. 73 (2008).
• Anna Williams Shavers, The Invisible Others and Immigrant Rights: A Commentary, 45 Hous. L. Rev. 99 (2008).

Comments

• Iftikhar Ahmed, What They Don’t Know Shouldn’t Hurt You: Adding a Public Knowledge Prong to the On-Sale Bar Helps Provide Certainty to Inventors and Competitors Alike, 45 Hous. L. Rev. 153 (2008).
• Emily M. Feuerborn, What’s Not So “Super” about Comparative Descriptions: The Need for Reform in Attorney Advertising, 45 Hous. L. Rev. 189 (2008).
• Bryon Allyn Rice, Enforceable or Not?: Class Action Waivers in Mandatory Arbitration Clauses and the Need for a Judicial Standard, 45 Hous. L. Rev. 215 (2008).

Note

• Linda R. Boyle, Three’s Company: Examining the Third-Party Problem through an Analysis of Bridas S.A.P.I.C. v. Government of Turkmenistan, 45 Hous. L. Rev. 261 (2008).

• George W. Dent, Jr., Academics in Wonderland: The Team Production and Director Primacy Models of Corporate Governance, 44 Hous. L. Rev. 1213 (2008).
• Eric J. Miller, Judicial Preference, 44 Hous. L. Rev. 1275 (2008).
• Christopher M. Pietruszkiewicz, Conflating Standards of Review in the Tax Court: A Lesson in Ambiguity, 44 Hous. L. Rev. 1337 (2008).

Essay

• Judge Grant Dorfman, The Founders’ Legal Case: “No Taxation Without Representation” Versus Taxation No Tyranny, 44 Hous. L. Rev. 1377 (2008).

Comments

• Nicolas G. Grimmer, Oops! It Turns Out You Shouldn’t Have Built That There: Erroneously Issued Building Permits in Texas, 44 Hous. L. Rev. 1415 (2008).
• Evan D. Johnson, Anchorage, We Have a Problem: The Cold, Harsh Truth about the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission’s Ability to Regulate Gas-Cap Production (A Texas Perspective), 44 Hous. L. Rev. 1455 (2008).

Note

• Joshua C. Thomas, Clearing the Muddy Waters? Rapanos and the Post-Rapanos Clean Water Act Jurisdictional Guidance, 44 Hous. L. Rev. 1491 (2008).

• Craig Joyce, Introduction, 44 Hous. L. Rev. 815 (2007).

Articles

• Neil Weinstock Netanel, Maharam of Padua v. Giustiniani: The Sixteenth-Century Origins Of The Jewish Law Of Copyright, 44 Hous. L. Rev. 821 (2007).
• Roberta Rosenthal Kwall, Originality in Context, 44 Hous. L. Rev. 871 (2007).
• Thomas F. Cotter, Misuse, 44 Hous. L. Rev. 901 (2007).
• Keith Aoki, Balancing Act: Reflections on Justice O’Connor’s Intellectual Property Jurisprudence, 44 Hous. L. Rev. 965 (2007).
• Peter S. Menell, Knowledge Accessibility and Preservation Policy for the Digital Age, 44 Hous. L. Rev. 1013 (2007).

Lecture

• Joel Reidenberg, The Rule of Intellectual Property Law in the Internet Economy, 44 Hous. L. Rev. 1073 (2007).

Comment

• Lauren M. Miller, A Funeral for Free Speech? Examining the Constitutionality of Funeral Picketing Acts, 44 Hous. L. Rev. 1097 (2007).

Notes

• Luitgard W. Lina Chambers, A New Supreme Court Securities Jurisprudence?, 44 Hous. L. Rev. 1131 (2007).
• Stephany A. Olsen Legrand, eBay v. MercExchange: On Patrol for Trolls, 44 Hous. L. Rev. 1175 (2007).

• Bradley W. Joondeph, The Deregulatory Valence of Justice O’Connor’s Federalism, 44 Hous. L. Rev. 507 (2007).
• Geoffrey Corn & Eric Talbot Jensen, The Political Balance of Power over the Military: Rethinking the Relationship Between the Armed Forces, the President, and Congress, 44 Hous. L. Rev. 553 (2007).
• Manuel A. Utset, Hyperbolic Criminals and Repeated Time-Inconsistent Misconduct, 44 Hous. L. Rev. 609 (2007).

Essay

• Justice Evelyn Keyes, The Literary Judge: The Judge as Novelist and Critic, 44 Hous. L. Rev. 679 (2007).

Comments

• William E. Barker, The Only Guarantee Is There Are No Guarantees: The Texas Supreme Court’s Inability to Establish a Mandamus Standard, 44 Hous. L. Rev. 703 (2007).
• Thomas S. Meriwether, Limiting Judicial Review of Arbitral Awards Under the Federal Arbitration Act: Striking the Right Balance, 44 Hous. L. Rev. 739 (2007).
• Bijal J. Patel, MySpace or Yours: The Abridgement of the Blogosphere at the Hands of At-Will Employment, 44 Hous. L. Rev. 777 (2007).

• Gregory W. Bowman, Thinking Outside the Border: Homeland Security and the Forward Deployment of the U.S. Border, 44 Hous. L. Rev. 189 (2007).
• Judge Jeff Brown, The Platonic Guardian and the Lawyer’s Judge: Contrasting the Judicial Philosophies of Earl Warren and John M. Harlan, 44 Hous. L. Rev. 253 (2007).
• Max Huffman, A Retrospective on Twenty-Five Years of the Foreign Trade Antitrust Improvements Act, 44 Hous. L. Rev. 285 (2007).
• Sandra F. Sperino, Recreating Diversity in Employment Law by Debunking the Myth of the McDonnell Douglas Monolith, 44 Hous. L. Rev. 349 (2007).

Comments

• Patrick R. Byrd, It’s All Fun and Games Until Someone Gets Hurt: The Effectiveness of Proposed Video-Game Legislation on Reducing Violence in Children, 44 Hous. L. Rev. 401 (2007).
• Anthony C. Coveny, Saying Goodbye to Texas’s Homestead Protection: One Step Toward Economic Efficiency with the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005, 44 Hous. L. Rev. 433 (2007).
• Christine M. McMillan, Federal Flood Insurance Policy: Making Matters Worse, 44 Hous. L. Rev. 471 (2007).

• Pamela S. Karlan, Section 5 Squared: Congressional Power to Extend and Amend the Voting Rights Act, 44 Hous. L. Rev. 1 (2007).

Commentary

• Ellen D. Katz, Congressional Power to Extend Preclearance: A Response to Professor Karlan, 44 Hous. L. Rev. 33 (2007).

Comments

• Tyler Brochstein, The Totten Doctrine: Is the Purpose Behind Totten MIA?, 44 Hous. L. Rev. 65 (2007).
• Oleg Rezzy, Sarbanes-Oxley: Progressive Punishment for Regressive Victimization, 44 Hous. L. Rev. 95 (2007).

Notes

• Ryan D. Pittman, The College Student Media as House Organ: Reflections on an Off-Key Decision in Hosty v. Carter, 44 Hous. L. Rev. 131 (2007).
• Jordan L. Wilson, Missing the Big Idea: The Supreme Court Loses Sight of the Policy Behind the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act in Schaffer v. Weast, 44 Hous. L. Rev. 161 (2007).

• Jim Chen, The Echoes of Forgotten Footfalls: Telecommunications Mergers at the Dawn of the Digital Millennium, 43 Hous. L. Rev. 1311 (2007).
• Lorelei Ritchie de Larena, The Price of Progress: Are Universities Adding to the Cost?, 43 Hous. L. Rev. 1373 (2007).
• Lawrence M. Friedman, Christopher J. Walker, & Ben Hernandez-Stern, The Inheritance Process in San Bernardino County, California, 1964: A Research Note, 43 Hous. L. Rev. 1445 (2007).
• Donna M. Gitter, Resolving the Open Source Paradox in Biotechnology: A Proposal for a Revised Open Source Policy for Publicly Funded Genomic Databases, 43 Hous. L. Rev. 1475 (2007).

Comments

• Megan A. Kemp, Blessed Are the Born Again: An Analysis of Christian Fundamentalists, the Faith-Based Initiative, and the Establishment Clause, 43 Hous. L. Rev. 1523 (2007).
• Sara Longtain, The Twilight of Competency and Mental Illness: A Conciliatory Conception of Competency and Insanity, 43 Hous. L. Rev. 1563 (2007).
• Lilia Rode, Database Security Breach Notification Statutes: Does Placing the Responsibility on the True Victim Increase Data Security?, 43 Hous. L. Rev. 1597 (2007).

• Bradley T. Borden, The Federal Definition of Tax Partnership, 43 Hous. L. Rev. 925 (2006).
• James W. Christian, Robert Shapiro, & John-Paul Whalen, Naked Short Selling: How Exposed Are Investors?, 43 Hous. L. Rev. 1033 (2006).
• Beverly Cohen, Reconciling the HIPAA Privacy Rule with State Laws Regulating Ex Parte Interviews of Plaintiffs’ Treating Physicians: A Guide to Performing HIPAA Preemption Analysis, 43 Hous. L. Rev. 1091 (2006).
• Charles A. Sullivan, On Vacation, 43 Hous. L. Rev. 1143 (2006).

Comments

• Mary W. Blackford, Putting the Public’s Trust Back in Zoning: How the Implementation of the Public Trust Doctrine Will Benefit Land Use Regulation, 43 Hous. L. Rev. 1211 (2006).
• Evan B. Hofmann, IRS Circular 230 and Professional Discipline for Firms, 43 Hous. L. Rev. 1241 (2006).
• Giana Ortiz, Medical Malpractice Damage Caps— Constitutional Per Se in Texas, but at What Price? A Look at Alternative Patient Compensation Schemes, 43 Hous. L. Rev. 1281 (2006).

• Dan L. Burk, The Problem of Process in Biotechnology, 43 Hous. L. Rev. 561 (2006).
• Geraldine Szott Moohr, What the Martha Stewart Case Tells Us About White Collar Criminal Law, 43 Hous. L. Rev. 591 (2006).

Articles

• Kristen Clarke, Voting Rights & City-County Consolidations, 43 Hous. L. Rev. 621 (2006).
• Matthew L.M. Fletcher, Toward a Theory of Intertribal and Intratribal Common Law, 43 Hous. L. Rev. 701 (2006).
• Sandra F. Sperino, Flying Without a Statutory Basis: Why McDonnell Douglas Is Not Justified by Any Statutory Construction Methodology, 43 Hous. L. Rev. 743 (2006).

Comments

• Kinan H. Romman, The Google Book Search Library Project: A Market Analysis Approach to Fair Use, 43 Hous. L. Rev. 807 (2006).
• Vicky J. Salinas, You Can Be Whatever You Want to Be When You Grow Up, Unless Your Parents Brought You to This Country Illegally: The Struggle to Grant In-State Tuition to Undocumented Immigrant Students, 43 Hous. L. Rev. 847 (2006).
• John Edward Sharp, There Oughta Be a Law: Crafting Effective Weapons in the War Against Spyware, 43 Hous. L. Rev. 879 (2006).

• Sandra Guerra Thompson, The Booker Project: The Future Of Federal Sentencing, 43 Hous. L. Rev. 269 (2006).

Commentaries

• Frank O. Bowman, III, The Year of Jubilee . . . or Maybe Not: Some Preliminary Observations about the Operation of the Federal Sentencing System After Booker, 43 Hous. L. Rev. 279 (2006).
• Nancy J. King, Reasonableness Review After Booker, 43 Hous. L. Rev. 325 (2006).
• Douglas A. Berman, Tweaking Booker: Advisory Guidelines in the Federal System, 43 Hous. L. Rev. 341 (2006).
• Ronald F. Wright, The Power of Bureaucracy in the Response to Blakely and Booker, 43 Hous. L. Rev. 389 (2006).

Comments

• Emily Buchanan Buckles, Food Fights in the Courts: The Odd Combination of Agriculture and First Amendment Rights, 43 Hous. L. Rev. 415 (2006).
• Lori Ann Foertsch, Scalia’s Duck Hunt Leads to Ruffled Feathers: How the U.S. Supreme Court and Other Federal Judiciaries Should Change Their Recusal Approach, 43 Hous. L. Rev. 457 (2006).
• Robert T. Vlasis, The Doctor is Out, or Unconventional Methods for Healing: Resolving the Standard of Care for an Alternative Medicine Practitioner, 43 Hous. L. Rev. 495 (2006).

Note

• Alex B. Roberts, Reservations on Tribal Sovereignty: How United States v. Lara Will Affect Indians, Tribes, and the Fight to Regain Independence, 43 Hous. L. Rev. 527 (2006).