Gerald E. Frug (July 31, 1939 – November 7, 2023)[1][2] was an American legal scholar. He was the Louis D. Brandeis Professor of Law emeritus 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 advocated regional cooperation to solve local government problems.
He graduated from University of California, Berkeley and Harvard Law School, and previously worked for the City of New York and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.[3]