Highlights

New hires: Professor Peter T. Hoffman holds the John B. Neibel Chair and directs the Blakely Advocacy Institute. Associate Professor Joan H. Krause has joined the UH Law Center, where she will be teaching some core J.D. courses, in addition to being affiliated with our Health Law & Policy Institute. Assistant Professor Lonny S. Hoffman, recently of the University of Cincinnati College of Law, is an expert in procedural and jurisdictional issues, and is noted for his teaching prowess. Assistant Professor Richard S. Saver practiced at the University of Chicago Hospitals and Health System before joining the UH Law Center faculty, and his expertise lies in health care transactions, public health law, and biomedical research and technology.

This past year, Michael A. Olivas, William B. Bates Professor of Law and Director of the UH Law Center’s Institute for Higher Education Law & Governance, was honored with the 2001 Esther Farfel Award, the highest recognition the university bestows upon faculty members.

Professor G. Sidney Buchanan, Baker Botts Professor of Law, was honored with the 2001 Enron Teaching Excellence Award.

Among other accomplishments, our faculty:

• Published 9 new books
• Wrote 50 articles
• Appeared at 80 major speaking engagements and innumerable local/regional events.

We hosted a number of popular and academic dignitaries, including:

• The third Ruby Kless Sondock Lecture in Legal Ethics was held on February 8, 2001, featuring Helen Thomas, grande dame of the White House press corps. Ms. Thomas’ lecture was entitled Presidential Ethics: Does a Law Degree Make a Difference?
• On February 21, 2001, the Jenkens & Gilchrist Health Law Lecture featured Marian Wright Edelman, founder of the Children’s Defense Fund. Her speech was entitled Children’s Health Issues in the Coming Years.
• Doris Meissner, the former Immigration and Naturalization Service Chief Commissioner was the keynote speaker at the 2001 Tenneco Community Symposium on March 23, 2001. Meissner spoke on immigration and the family.
• On April 4, 2001, famed Prosecutor Vincent T. Bugliosi was the inaugural Riddle/O’Quinn Lecturer. Bugliosi talk, Tactics, Techniques & Tales focused on the missteps of the prosecution team against O.J. Simpson.
• On October 10, 2001, Terence Pell, Executive Director, Center for Individual Rights, and Theodore M. Shaw, Counsel, NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, participated in the second Mayor, Day, Caldwell & Keeton Debate, Considering Affirmative action in Higher Education.
• On November 15, 2001, Robert Weisberg, Edwin E. Huddleson Jr. Professor of Law at Stanford University, along with Professor Jonathan Simon, University of Miami School of Law and Professor Erik Luna, University of Utah College of Law, spoke at the Sixth Annual Houston law Review Frankel Lecture, American Violence as a Shaper of Gun Law.
  

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