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The History of Mexican Oil and Gas Law from the Conquistadors’ Conquest Until 1914* Columns Features The History of Mexican Oil and Gas Law Letter from the President Busted: A History of Bankruptcy and from the Conquistadors’ Conquest By Ben L. Mesches Insolvency in the Oil and Gas Industry until 1914 As we begin 2016, the By Vincent R. Ryan, Jr. By Charles A. Beckham, Jr. Society remains focused By 1921, Mexico was Today, technological on our core mission: the second leading improvements have put preserving the history petroleum-producing oil and gas production of the Supreme Court of nation of the world. at an all-time high, while Texas. Read more... Ben L. Mesches Read more... prices have approached Mexican President a decade low. Porfirio Diaz Read more... Sale of surplus oil Executive Director’s Page & gas equipment Theodora Hemphill’s Guide to the By Pat Nester Texas Constitution, Part 1I Meet the new archivist How Texas Law Promoted of the State Bar, who will By David A. Furlow be helping the Society Shale Play Development The older daughter of Texas Supreme Court with its document- and By Bill Kroger, Jason Newman, Chief Justice John artifact-preservation Ben Sweet, and Justin Lipe Hemphill offers a unique projects. Read more... Pat Nester The production of oil perspective on the way and gas from shale plays Texas’s constitutions in the past ten years, Studio portrait, shape and reshape lives. much of it in Texas, unidentifed Fellows Column Read more... woman, 1870’s has transformed the By David J. Beck economies of the world. The Society’s new Read more... A Spindletop oil judicial civics and history field gusher, 1903 Unraveling a Mystery: Who Was Texas’s book is the first of its kind in the country. First African-American Attorney? Read more... David J. Beck The Texas Railroad Commission By John G. Browning and —The First OPEC Chief Justice Carolyn Wright Our research sheds By Mitchell E. Ayer light on the two likeliest Executive Editor’s Page The Commission played candidates for the title of By David A. Furlow the central role in Texas’s first black lawyer: This Journal chronicles interstate production W. A. Price and A. W. the boom and bust coordination for forty Wilder. Read more... reversals of Texas law years from 1933 through A. W. Wilder that resulted from the 1972. Read more... Seal of the development of oil and Commission gas production. Read more... David A. Furlow News & Announcements Jim Haley Shares Supreme Court Update: Texas State Library and Stories at the GLO Save Texas History Archives’ Texas Digital Archive In Memoriam: Symposium Continues to Grow Joseph D. Jamail, Jr., 1925-2015 By David A. Furlow By David A. Furlow By Marilyn P. Duncan The Society’s historian TSLAC invites its “virtual The Society lost one wowed a crowd with visitors” to explore their of its most enduring colorful stories at the heritage through its friends and supporters Texas General Land “Places Collection” and on December 23 of last Office’s fifth annual “People Collection.” Jim Haley year. Read more... A photo from the symposium. Read more... at podium Read more... Joe Jamail, Jr. Places Collection Beck Recognized for Lifetime of Fall 2015 Board Meeting Featured a Talk Excellence in Advocacy by Dr. Frank de la Teja and Tour of the The Houston Bar Association Teach By Charles B. McFarland Texas Committee Seeks Volunteers to The Texas Association of Texas State Cemetery Civil Trial and Appellate By David A. Furlow Teach the Taming Texas Project Specialists named The meeting was By Warren W. Harris David J. Beck as the filled with special The HBA is seeking 2015 recipient of its presentations and good volunteers from its Lifetime of Excellence in news about Society ranks to teach middle- David Beck projects. Read more... schoolers lessons from Advocacy Award. in his youth Dr. Frank de la Read more... Teja the Society’s new book . Read more... What Wings They Were: Supreme Court Establishes Texas The Case of Emeline Commission to Expand Civil Services By Laura Gibson Membership & More By Dylan O. Drummond In 1847, the histories The new commission is charged with of the Houston Bar Calendar of Events exploring ways to bring more affordable Association, Baker Botts, Officers, Trustees & Court Liaison legal services to small businesses and and a free woman of people who cannot qualify for legal aid. color named Emeline 2015-16 Membership Upgrades Read more... became forever Emeline’s lawyer, intertwined. Read more... Peter Gray 2015-16 New Member List Join the Society Texas History Podcasts Offer This March, the Society Examines Listeners Another Great Way to Visit the Society on Twitter and Facebook! the Restatement and Reformation Learn about Texas’s Past @SCOTXHistSocy of Texas Law By Dylan O. Drummond FB: Texas Supreme Court Historical Society Texas legal historians By David A. Furlow now have two great The Society will present © 2016 Texas Supreme Court Historical Society resources to learn a prestigious panel more about Texas’s rich program during the history and legal lineage. Texas State Historical Read more... Association’s Annual Meeting. Read more... TSHA logo Letter from the President Ben L. Mesches s we all begin our work in 2016, the Society remains focused on our core Amission: preserving the history of the Supreme Court of Texas. In this letter, I will provide an overview of our last board meeting, update you on the work of the Society, and give you a preview of this year’s Hemphill Dinner. Fall Board Meeting In late October, our Board of Trustees met in Austin. We had the opportunity to welcome the following new trustees: Justice Jeff Brown, Justice Dale Wainwright (retired), Justice Elizabeth Lang-Miers, Justice Ken Wise, former Justice David Keltner, and Bill Chriss. Our fall board meeting had a tremendous energy as a result of this infusion of new leadership. We tackled a wide range of issues: the Society’s budget; the outstanding work of our publications team; an update on the annual briefing attorney breakfast; judicial portraits; and our renewed online presence. The entire board was particularly excited by Blake Hawthorne’s passionate presentation on the status of the Texas Judicial Civics and Educational Center, which will be located in the Tom Clark building. This is a project that all members of the Society will enthusiastically follow in the years to come. The Society’s Work As the new year begins, we are placing an emphasis on building our membership. I will appoint a new membership committee focused on bringing trial and appellate lawyers from across the state into the Society. If you would like to be a part of our membership efforts, please email or call me, and I will put you on our team. I also would like to highlight the work of David Furlow to promote the Society’s scholarship. At David’s initiative, the Society sponsored an important Texas history program put on in November by the Texas General Land Office called “Save Texas History.” Our books and other publications were on display, and the Society’s historian—Jim Haley—gave a talk on the history of the Texas Supreme Court. The Society’s involvement in programs like this is another important way that we are the forefront of preserving the history of the courts and the legal system. 1 2016 Hemphill Dinner The Twenty-First Annual Hemphill Dinner will take place on Friday, September 9, 2016 at the Four Seasons in Austin. We are privileged to have Paul D. Clement of Bancroft PLLC as our keynote speaker. You will begin hearing more about the dinner, including sponsorship opportunities, in the coming weeks and months. But for now, please mark your calendars for this special evening. Very truly yours, Ben L. Mesches BEN L. MESCHES is a partner with Haynes and Boone, LLP in Dallas, where he co-chairs the firm’s litigation department. Return to Journal Index 2 Executive Director’s Page Introducing Our New Archivist Extraordinaire Pat Nester ne of the best things about my job is getting to work with top-flight professionals Oat the peak of their game. Usually they are lawyers, but today I want to introduce you to Caitlin Bumford, the new archivist of the State Bar, who from time to time— it has been arranged—will be helping the Society with its document- and artifact- preservation projects. Caitlin succeeds Alexandra Myers Swast, former State Bar archivist, who recently moved to Seattle and with whom Caitlin had been working for several years. Caitlin has been certified nationally by the Academy of Certified Archivists and has a B.A. from the University of Michigan (graduating with high distinction) and an M.S. from UT Austin in information studies. She presides over a suite of offices and work rooms adjacent to the Society’s headquarters on the P1 level of the Texas Law Center. Caitlin’s career has taken some interesting twists and turns. For example, she developed the archives for the Congregational Church of Austin, preserving a century’s worth of evidence relating to the famous church’s social activism. Caitlin Bumford; photo by Pat Nester She worked at the LBJ Library in Austin for a time. I asked her whether she was privy to any hitherto unreleased information about LBJ’s turbulent presidency, and she said that the people who would know that were those who had security clearances. She says she did not. (For the time being, I’m going to accept that. But just FYI, she happens to be proficient in spoken and written Russian. I’m not connecting these dots.) 3 At the University of Nevada–Las Vegas, Caitlin developed expertise in the cleaning, humidification, spine-mending, and encapsulation of paper artifacts.
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