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BRIEFCASE BRIEFCASE 2018 Volume 37 Number 1
Volume 36
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Cover design: Elena Hawthorne
Cover design: Jennifer Garcia
More Than Bricks
TOGETHER WE BUILD THE FUTURE
OF LEGAL EDUCATION
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Interim Director, Jim Lawrence ’07
Assistant Editor Elena Hawthorne Interim Director, Jim Lawrence ’07
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Photographers Blakely Advocacy Institute
Executive Director, Jim Lawrence ’07
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Center for Biotechnology & Law
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Elena Hawthorne
Editorial Assistant Jaymie Turner Director, Barbara J. Evans '03, Mary Ann & Lawrence E. Faust Professor of Law
Director, Barbara J. Evans, Mary Ann & Lawrence E. Faust Professor of Law
Assistant Editor
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Center for Children, Law & Policy
Amanda Orr, Pooja Patel Center for Children, Law & Policy
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Photographers
UH Law Center Administration Director, Ellen Marrus, Royce Till Professor of Law
Director, Ellen Marrus, Royce Till Professor of Law
Design
Seleste Bautista, Jennifer Garcia,
Dean and Professor of Law Initiative on Global Law and Policy for the Americas
Elena Hawthorne
Leonard M. Baynes Center for Consumer Law
Director, Elizabeth Trujillo, Mary Ann & Lawrence E. Faust Professor of Law
Editorial Assistant Lisa Lane
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Director, Richard M. Alderman, Professor Emeritus
Center for Consumer Law
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HIPLA College Professor of Law Center for U.S. and Mexican Law
Director, Richard M. Alderman, Professor Emeritus
Greg R. Vetter Director, Alfonso López de la Osa Escribano
Center for U.S. and Mexican Law
UH Law Center Administration
Associate Dean of Alumni and Community Relations Criminal Justice Institute
Director, Alfonso López de la Osa Escribano
Sondra R. Tennessee Director, Sandra Guerra Thompson, Newell H. Blakely Chair
Dean and Professor of Law
Leonard M. Baynes
Assistant Dean of Communications and Marketing Criminal Justice Institute
Associate Dean, HIPLA College Professor of Law
Carrie Anna Criado ’95 Environment, Energy & Natural Resources Center
Greg Vetter Director, Sandra Guerra Thompson, Newell H. Blakely Chair, and
Assistant Dean for Faculty Development, Co-director, Victor B. Flatt, Dwight Olds Chair in Law
Professor of Law
Associate Dean for Student Affairs
Baker Botts L.L.P. Professor of Law Co-director, Blake Hudson, Professor of Law, A.L. O'Quinn Chair for Environmental Studies
Sondra R. Tennessee
Environment, Energy & Natural Resources Center
David Fagundes Health Law & Policy Institute
Assistant Dean of Communications and Marketing
Co-Director, Victor B. Flatt, Dwight Olds Chair in Law
Carrie Anna Criado ’95
Assistant Dean for Admissions Director, Jessica L. Roberts, Professor of Law, Alumnae College Professor in Law
Co-Director, Blake Hudson, A.L. O’Quinn Chair in Environmental Studies
Pilar Mensah Co-director, Jessica L. Mantel, Associate Professor of Law, George Butler Research Professor of Law
Assistant Dean for Faculty Development, Baker
Botts LLP Professor in Law Professor of Law
Executive Director of Law Alumni Relations Institute for Higher Education Law and Governance
Professor David Fagundes
Health Law & Policy Institute
Hope Young Director, Michael A. Olivas, William B. Bates Distinguished Chair in Law
Assistant Dean for Admissions
Pilar Mensah
Assistant Dean for Career Development Director, Jessica L. Roberts, Professor of Law, and Leonard H. Childs Chair in Law
Co-Director, Jessica L. Mantel, Associate Professor of Law, and George A. Butler
Tiffany J. Tucker Institute for Intellectual Property & Information Law
Assistant Dean for Career Development
Tiffany J. Tucker Research Professor
Senior Director of Advancement Co-director, Sapna Kumar, Professor of Law, Law Foundation Professor of Law
Senior Director of Advancement
Magda M. Herrera Co-director, Greg R. Vetter, HIPLA College Professor of Law
Institute for Higher Education Law and Governance
Magda M. Herrera
Director, Michael A. Olivas, William B. Bates Distinguished Chair in Law
Director of Law Information Technology Juvenile and Capital Advocacy Project
Director of Law Information Technology
Tommy Abraham
Tommy Abraham Founder, David R. Dow, Cullen Professor of Law
Institute for Intellectual Property & Information Law
Director of Metropolitan Programs, George Butler
Assistant Dean of Diversity, Inclusion and Legal Programs Director, Katya Dow ’92, Professor of Practice
Co-Director, Sapna Kumar, Law Foundation Professor of Law
Research Professor of Law, Associate Professor of Law
Metropolitan Programs, George A. Butler Research Professor Texas Innocence Network
Meredith J. Duncan '93
Co-Director, Greg R. Vetter, HIPLA College Professor of Law
Meredith J. Duncan Founder, David R. Dow, Cullen Professor of Law
Director of Outcomes and Assessments, Professor of Law
Texas Innocence Network
Director, Outcomes and Assessments, Professor of Law Director, Cassandra Jeu ’04
and the Larry and Joanne Doherty Chair in Legal Ethics
and the Larry and Joanne Doherty Chair in Legal Ethics Director, David R. Dow, Cullen Professor of Law
Renee Knake
Renee N. Knake Director, Cassandra Jeu
Director of Global and Graduate Programs
Nathan Neely
Executive Director of Global and Graduate Programs 2018-2019 UH Law Alumni Association Board
Karen L. Jones 2019-2020 UH Law Alumni Association Board
Director, Business Operations
Mybao Nguyen Cynthia Mabry ’10 | President
Executive Director of Business Operations Victor Wright '98 | President-Elect
Victor Wright ’98
| President
Director of the O'Quinn Library, Assistant Professor of Law
Mybao Nguyen Alex Roberts ’06 | Vice-President
Amanda Watson
Alex Roberts ’06
| President Elect
Kris Thomas ’83
| Vice President
Director of the O’Quinn Library and Assistant Professor of Law Laura Gibson ’84 | Secretary
Interim Executive Director for Law Alumni Relations
Hope Young
Amanda Watson Laura Gibson ’84 | Secretary
Cynthia Mabry ’10 | Ex Officio
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