A Lecture by Gerald Frug, Louis D. Brandeis Professor of Law at Harvard University

What: The Center for Urban and Global Studies will host their inaugural lecture series with a lecture by Gerald Frug, Louis D. Brandeis Professor of Law at Harvard University.  His lecture is titled Boston Bound, and will be based on his publication, Boston Bound: A Comparison of Boston's Legal Powers with Those of Six Other Major American Cities, a report that delves into the issues faced by the city of Boston, a city that according to the report “…is so restrained by state government that it lacks the power and ability to shape its own future.”  The report was co-published by Harvard Law School professors Frug and David Barron. The event is co-sponsored by the Center for Urban and Global Studies and Public Policy and Law.

When: Monday, December 3, 2007 ~ 4 p.m. – 5:15 p.m.

Where: 70 Vernon Street, 1st floor, on the Trinity College campus

Background: Gerald Frug is the Louis D. Brandeis Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. Educated at the University of California at Berkeley and Harvard Law School, he worked as a Special Assistant to the Chairman of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, in Washington, D.C., and as Health Services Administrator of the City of New York before he began teaching in 1974 at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. He joined the Harvard faculty in 1981. He has published dozens of articles on the topic of local government law and is the author, among other works, of a casebook on Local Government Law (4th edition 2006, with David Barron and Richard T. Ford), Dispelling the Myth of Home Rule (2004, with David Barron and Rick Su), and City Making: Building Communities without Building Walls (Princeton University Press 1999).