Gerald E. Frug (July 31, 1939 – November 7, 2023) was an American legal scholar. He was the Louis D. Brandeis Professor of Law

emeritus ''Emeritus/Emerita'' () is an honorary title granted to someone who retires from a position of distinction, most commonly an academic faculty position, but is allowed to continue using the previous title, as in "professor emeritus". In some c ...

Harvard Law School Harvard Law School (HLS) is the law school of Harvard University, a Private university, private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1817, Harvard Law School is the oldest law school in continuous operation in the United ...

, and a leading academic authority on

local government Local government is a generic term for the lowest tiers of governance or public administration within a particular sovereign state. Local governments typically constitute a subdivision of a higher-level political or administrative unit, such a ...

law. He was married to feminist law professor

Mary Joe Frug Mary Joe Frug (née Gaw; 1941 – April 4, 1991) was a professor at New England Law Boston, and a leading feminist legal scholar. She is considered a forerunner of legal postmodern feminist theory. Much of her work was collected in the posthumous ...

, who was murdered in 1991.

Biography

Frug graduated from

University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California), is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Berkeley, California, United States. Founded in 1868 and named after t ...

and

, and previously worked for the City of New York and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. He advocated regional cooperation to solve local government problems. Frug died on November 7, 2023, at the age of 84.

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 al ...

Conference in Mumbai as context to critique CNBC's "Business of Innovation: Reshaping Cities") 1939 births 2023 deaths Harvard Law School faculty Harvard Law School alumni University of California, Berkeley alumni American legal scholars {{US-legal-academic-bio-stub