Professor Roy M. Mersky, the Harry M. Reasoner Regents Chair in Law and longtime director of the Tarlton Law Library and Jamail Center for Legal Research at The University of Texas School of Law, died Tuesday, May 6, in Austin after a brief illness.
Mersky, a decorated World War II veteran and civil rights advocate, [...]
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