On 26th March, under the invitation of Law Dept. of BAI, Prof. Gerald Frug came to BAI to participate in an academic activity co-hosted by Law Dept., Dept. of International Cooperation & Exchange and Scientific Research Dept. Prof. E Zhenhui, director of Law Dept. presided the academic activity, with all faculty in Law Dept., some staff from Scientific Research Dept. and Dept. of International Cooperation & Exchange and some graduate students participating in the activity.
Prof. Frug first made a short speech on the issues regulated by local government law. In his speech, he pointed out that for the purpose of efficient management, every country will set up its local governments with appropriate size and authorizes some power to them. When the local governments are set up, their decisions sometimes will conflict with local citizens or even infringe on their interests, or their decisions may be different from those of provincial or central governments, or there may be some friction among local governments, all the above instances need certain laws and regulations to properly cope with. The laws and regulations constitute the content of local government law and the conflicts and friction are what the local law is going to deal with. Therefore, how the power of local governments be authorized? Whether the actions of local governments surpass its attorney or restrictions? These are questions that local government law shall answer.
Before the end of the academic activity, Prof. Frug discussed some specific issues related to local government law. It is said that Prof. Gerald Frug is also an endowed professor on Brandeis, Louis (Dembitz) and his specialty is in local government law. He was special advisor to chairman of Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and vice president of Medical Service Bureau of New York. In 1974, he began teaching in law school of University of Pennsylvania and in 1981, he joined Harvard University. His case study course Local Government Law is included in the syllabus of many famous law schools, including Harvard University.