{"id":626,"date":"2013-07-02T10:44:27","date_gmt":"2013-07-02T14:44:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/internationallegalstudies\/?p=626"},"modified":"2018-10-15T17:04:33","modified_gmt":"2018-10-15T21:04:33","slug":"snapshot-derek_galley-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/internationallegalstudies\/2013\/07\/02\/snapshot-derek_galley-14\/","title":{"rendered":"Snapshot:  Derek Galley, J.D.\/M.U.P. &#8217;14"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/internationallegalstudies\/files\/2013\/07\/Taillinn-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-627\" title=\"Taillinn 2\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/internationallegalstudies\/files\/2013\/07\/Taillinn-2-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"169\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/internationallegalstudies\/files\/2013\/07\/Taillinn-2-169x300.jpg 169w, https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/internationallegalstudies\/files\/2013\/07\/Taillinn-2-577x1024.jpg 577w, https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/internationallegalstudies\/files\/2013\/07\/Taillinn-2.jpg 1840w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 169px) 100vw, 169px\" \/><\/a>Just a week before Derek arrived in Tallinn, the capital of Estonia, the city implemented a new program eliminating fares on public transportation for city residents. For Derek \u2014 who came to Harvard to study urban planning, then became interested in how legal institutions affect how cities develop \u2014 this was a local experiment with global significance. \u201cAn idea like this helps people get around and save money, but it also challenges the traditional ways that the law thinks about how cities should be governed,\u201d he explained, involving issues ranging from fiscal structures and shifts in urban population to politically marginalized communities. By traveling to Tallinn, Derek was able to do archival research with medieval documents that helped to explain Estonia\u2019s long tradition of local autonomy, then visit City Hall to interview<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/internationallegalstudies\/files\/2013\/07\/Derek.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-628 alignright\" title=\"Derek\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/internationallegalstudies\/files\/2013\/07\/Derek-118x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"118\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> the deputy mayor and director of transportation. Equally important, \u201cI could wait at a bus stop, ask people for change (because I still had to pay), and see who was using the bus,\u201d Derek remembered; \u201cIt\u2019s a popular policy, voted in by a referendum, but there was also a lot of cynicism, a sense of disillusionment with the politics behind it.\u201d His winter term project has given him a \u201crich vein of material\u201d for his academic work and an appetite for more international travel: \u00a0\u201cI want to go to places where there\u2019s something to learn from.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>(Please visit \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.law.harvard.edu\/academics\/degrees\/special-programs\/winter-term\/winter-2013-snapshots.html\">Winter Term 2013: Snapshots from Students<\/a>\u201d to read about other recent projects.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a week before Derek arrived in Tallinn, the capital of Estonia, the city implemented a new program eliminating fares on public transportation for city residents. 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