O'Quinn Law Library
The O'Quinn Law Library is the school's law library. The director of the library is Spencer Simons. The library has some 435,000 volumes. The library has three special collections:
- The Frankel Rare Books Collection is a closed-stack collection of rare and out of print books and documents as well as publications of the Law Center faculty.
- The Judge Brown Admiralty Collection is an admiralty and maritime law collection. Established mainly from an endowment by Houston admiralty lawyers, the collection is named in honor of Judge John Robert Brown, a Houston admiralty attorney who served on the Fifth Circuit. The entire collection was lost during Tropical Storm Allison, but was rebuilt through the Albertus book replacement project, completed in 2007.
- The Foreign & International Law Collection, which includes books and other documents on Mexican law.
Tropical Storm Allison flooded the library's lower level with eight feet of water in June 2001, destroying 174,000 books and the microfiche collection. The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) gave $21.4 million to rebuilt the libraries collection, which was 75 percent of the replacement cost, and the collection has since been rebuilt.
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