Gerald Frug
Encyclopedia
Gerald Frug is the Louis D. Brandeis Professor of Law at Harvard Law School
, and a leading academic authority on local government
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.
Harvard Law School
Harvard Law School is one of the professional graduate schools of Harvard University. Located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, it is the oldest continually-operating law school in the United States and is home to the largest academic law library in the world. The school is routinely ranked by the U.S...
, and a leading academic authority on local government
Local government
Local government refers collectively to administrative authorities over areas that are smaller than a state.The term is used to contrast with offices at nation-state level, which are referred to as the central government, national government, or federal government...
law. He was married to feminist law professor Mary Joe Frug
Mary Joe Frug
Mary Joe Frug was a professor at New England School of Law from 1981 to 1991. She is considered a forerunner of legal postmodern feminist theory, and was a renowned postmodernist and feminist legal scholar. Much of her work was collected in the posthumously-published book Postmodern Legal Feminism...
, who was murdered in 1991.
Frug has advocated regional cooperation to solve local government problems.
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)