Myron Orfield
Earl R. Larson Professor of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Law and Director of the Institute on Metropolitan Opportunity University of Minnesota Law School
Myron Orfield is the director of the Institute on Metropolitan Opportunity. He has written extensively on local government law, spatial inequality, fair housing, school desegregation, charter schools, state and local taxation and finance, and land use law. Recently, Orfield served on the National Commission on Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity, as an academic adviser to the Congressional Black Caucus, an adviser to President Barack Obama’s transition team for urban policy and to the White House Office of Urban Affairs, and as special consultant to the Housing and Urban Development’s Office for Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity.