Introduction

• Greg R. Vetter, Introduction, 46 Hous. L. Rev. 975 (2009). (Westlaw)

Articles

• Peter K. Yu, The Objectives and Principles of the TRIPS Agreement, 46 Hous. L. Rev. 979 (2009). (Westlaw)
• Cynthia M. Ho, Unveiling Competing Patent Perspectives, 46 Hous. L. Rev. 1047 (2009). (Westlaw)
• Jerome H. Reichman, Intellectual Property in the Twenty-First Century: Will the Developing Countries Lead or Follow?, 46 Hous. L. Rev. 1115 (2009). (Westlaw)
• Graeme B. Dinwoodie & Rochelle C. Dreyfuss, Designing a Global Intellectual Property System Responsive to Change: The WTO, WIPO, and Beyond, 46 Hous. L. Rev. 1187 (2009). (Westlaw)

Essay

• Charles R. McManis, The Proposed Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA): Two Tales of a Treaty, 46 Hous. L. Rev. 1235 (2009). (Westlaw)

Fifth Annual Baker Botts Lecture

• William O. Hennessey, Protection of Intellectual Property in China (30 Years and More): A Personal Reflection, 46 Hous. L. Rev. 1257 (2009). (Westlaw)

Comments

• Chris Connelley, The Inconvenience in Texas Groundwater Law, 46 Hous. L. Rev. 1301 (2009). (Westlaw)
• Kevin C. Hormann, The Death of the DMCA? How Viacom v. Youtube May Define the Future of Digital Content, 46 Hous. L. Rev. 1345 (2009). (Westlaw)

• A Tribute to Professor Irene Merker Rosenberg upon Her Retirement, 46 Hous. L. Rev. 649 (2009).

Child-Centered Jurisprudence and Feminist Jurisprudence: Exploring the Connections and Tensions

• Ellen Marrus & Laura Oren, Introduction, 46 Hous. L. Rev. 671 (2009). (Westlaw)

• Annette Ruth Appell, The Pre-political Child of Child-Centered Jurisprudence, 46 Hous. L. Rev. 703 (2009). (Westlaw)

• Martin Guggenheim, Texas Polygamy and Child Welfare, 46 Hous. L. Rev. 759 (2009). (Westlaw)

• Barbara Bennett Woodhouse, A World Fit for Children Is a World Fit for Everyone: Ecogenerism, Feminism, and Vulnerability, 46 Hous. L. Rev. 817 (2009). (Westlaw)

Article

• Ned W. Waxman, “Projected Disposable Income”: Legislative Lunacy and Judicial Gyrations, 46 Hous. L. Rev. 867 (2009). (Westlaw)

Comments

• Andrea Marks, Living the Dream: How I.R.C. § 195 Can Jump-Start the American Economy, 46 Hous. L. Rev. 905 (2009). (Westlaw)

• Jane W. Walker, The Bush Administration’s Midnight Provider Refusal Rule: Upsetting the Emerging Balance in State Pharmacy Refusal Laws, 46 Hous. L. Rev. 939 (2009). (Westlaw)

Jordan is a member of Board 47, and currently serves as an Articles Editor. He received a $1000 prize for having his note selected for the award.

Pleasant Grove City v. Summum, No. 07-665, 555 U.S. ___ (2009).

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

Good luck.

• 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

Foreword

• 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).