Honorable Edwin Meese III
United States Court of Appeals, 5th Circuit

Attorney General Meese was the most recent recipient of the Review's Jurist of the Year award; he was presented with the award in the spring of 1999.

Attorney General Meese's support has been instrumental in enabling the Review to enjoy such wide and immediate success. He provided invaluable assistance in assembling a Board of Advisors composed of some of the country's most respected conservative scholars and leaders. He graciously offered to write an article, Big Brother on the Beat: The Expanding Federalization of Crime, for the Review's first issue in the spring of 1997.

When accepting his jurist award, Attorney General Meese had the following to say about the Texas Review of Law and Politics:

"[Now] we have another great resource . . . the Texas Review of Law & Politics. An intellectual journal that has one thing that is unique among most law school journals . . . it is readable, interesting and entertaining! . . . [It is] a tremendous addition to the total resources we have to deal with the challenges of the legal profession . . . I see it going forward to be one of the top legal publications in the country and a great credit to the University of Texas Law School."