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Roy Mersky - UPDATED

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UT Law has lost one of it brightest stars.  Roy Mersky died Tuesday.  He held the titles of Harry Reasoner Regents Chair in Law and Director of Research.  Roy was well known nationally, for among many other things, his classic Fundamentals of Legal Research. The Austin American-Statesman has, "Director made UT Law library one of the nation's best."Roy Mersky was a giant in his field who made the University of Texas law library one of the best in the nation, friends and colleagues said. Along the way, he taught worldwide, wrote prolifically and compiled a résumé more than 40 pages long. "He was probably the most famous law librarian in the history of legal education," said Larry Sager, dean of the University of Texas School of Law...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on May 08, 2008 (boomark / email).