Myron Orfield is the Earl R. Larson Professor of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties and the director of the Institute on Metropolitan Opportunity of Minnesota at the University of Minnesota. He has written three books, dozens of articles, and book chapters on region planning, state and local government law, spatial inequality, fair housing, school desegregation, charter schools, state and local taxation and finance, and land-use law. Orfield has been a litigator in a large law firm, a civil rights lawyer, and an assistant attorney general of Minnesota, representing Minnesota in appellate courts, including the US Supreme Court. Orfield was elected to the Minnesota House of Representatives and the Minnesota Senate, where he was the architect of important legislative changes in land use, fair housing, and school and local government aid programs. Orfield served on the bipartisan National Commission on Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity as an academic adviser to the Congressional Black Caucus, an adviser to President Obama’s transition team for urban policy, an adviser to the White House Office of Urban Affairs, and a special consultant to the US Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Office for Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity during the Obama administration. Orfield assisted in the development of the Fair Housing Act’s Discriminatory Effects Standard (the “disparate impact rule”) and the Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing rule.