Gerald E. Frug (born 1939) is an American legal scholar. He is the Louis D. Brandeis Professor of Law emeritus at
Harvard Law School, and a leading academic authority on
local government
Local government is a generic term for the lowest tiers of public administration within a particular sovereign state. This particular usage of the word government refers specifically to a level of administration that is both geographically-l ...
law. He was married to feminist law professor
Mary Joe Frug, who was murdered in 1991.
Frug has advocated regional cooperation to solve local government problems.
He graduated from
University of California, Berkeley
The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant u ...
and
Harvard Law School and previously worked for the City of New York and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
GERALD E. FRUG, Louis D. Brandeis Professor of Law
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Publications
*Barron, David J., and Gerald E. Frug. City Bound: How States Stifle Urban Innovation (Cornell University Press 2009).
*Barron, David, Gerald E. Frug & Rick Su. Dispelling the Myth of Home Rule: Local Power in Greater Boston (Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston 1st ed. 2004).
*Frug, Gerald E. "Is Secession from the City of Los Angeles a Good Idea?" 49 University of California - Los Angeles Law Review 1783 (2002).
*Frug, Gerald E. City Making: Building Communities without Building Walls (Princeton University Press 1999).
*Frug, Gerald E. "City Services," 73 New York University Law Review 23 (1998).(Reprinted in 30 Land Use and Environmental Law, 1999)
*Frug, Gerald E. Local Government Law (West Publishing 2nd ed. 1994).
*Frug, Gerald E. "Administrative Democracy," 40 Toronto Law Journal 240 (1990).(Reprinted in D. Rosenbloom and R. Schwartz eds., Handbook on Regulation and Administrative Law 519, 1994; and in Bill Jenkins and Edward C. Page eds., the Foundations of Bureaucracy in Economic and Social Thought, 2004)
References
External links
Gerald Frug's Harvard Law Website
Democracy and the Rule of Law: Reflections on Gerald Frug
Renovating Digital Education
(using Professor Frug's November 2007 lecture from the Urban Age
Urban Age is a research programme started in 2005. It is led by LSE Cities with support from Deutsche Bank’s Alfred Herrhausen Society into the relationship between the shape and society of cities. Research includes comparing urbanisation in alr ...
Conference in Mumbai as context to critique CNBC's "Business of Innovation: Reshaping Cities")
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1939 births
Living people
Harvard Law School faculty
Harvard Law School alumni
University of California, Berkeley alumni
American legal scholars