The Law School of Sciences Po, the Master STU, the Master GLM and the Double Degree LSE/Sciences Po « Urban Policy » are organizing a seminar:
with Pr. GERALD FRUG
« CITY MAKING: THE BEING TOGETHER
OF STRANGERS AND THE REGIONAL CITY. »
Gerald Frug is the Louis D. Brandeis Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. His specialty is local government law. Educated at the University of California, Berkeley, and Harvard Law School, he served as a Special Assistant to the Chairman of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and as Deputy Administrator (and, later, Administrator) of the Health Services Administration of the City of New York. He began teaching at the University of Pennsylvania Law School in 1974; he joined the Harvard faculty in 1981. He is the author of dozens of articles and book chapters on local government, as well as of Local Government Law (2010, with Richard Ford and David Barron), City Bound: How States Stifle Urban Innovation (2008, with David Barron), and City Making: Building Communities without Building Walls (1999).
Professor Gerald Frug will present his view about American cities by focusing on the role of urban policy, local government legislation and the need for regional institutions.
Discussant : Matthew A. Wendeln, Associate research fellow at the Sciences Po Programme « Cities Are Back in Town. »
In the second part of the seminar, Master students are particularly welcome to discuss their work.
The seminar will be held on Tuesday 22nd of May in lecture halls Albert Sorel and Leroy-Beaulieu at 27 rue Saint-Guillaume, from 5 to 7 pm.