Prof. Michelle Wilde Anderson, Stanford Law School, will present the 2020 Winthrop and Frances Lane Foundation Lecture: The Fight to Save the Town: Rebuilding Postindustrial America. She will discuss her upcoming book, a portrait of social movements to restore trust and public services in four communities.

Professor Anderson is a scholar of state and local government law. Her work combines legal analysis, empirical research, and humanistic reporting to understand concentrated poverty and municipal fiscal distress. Her recent publications explore restructuring (such as bankruptcy, disincorporation, and receiverships) in cities and counties facing chronic poverty related to deindustrialization.

To register, visit https://go.unl.edu/lane2020.