[1] In addition to publishing scholarship from students and professionals, the Houston Law Review hosts the Frankel Lecture Series which features notable speakers.

During his deanship, he sought to remold the law school into an institution that used "Darwinian selection" to "[flunk] out half the class to identify those who were worthy to graduate.

[4] One early challenge faced by the Law Review was in attracting established scholars to publish in a brand new legal journal that had no prior reputation.

During its first several years, most of the articles were written by local practitioners; the few academic contributions were provided by professors at the University of Houston.

Ray Nimmer, then professor and later dean at the law school, took an interest in promoting the financial stability of the Law Review during the 1980s and "told the student editors straight-up: develop yourselves other, sustainable sources of funding", which they did by self-publishing legal manuals.