Massachusetts Institute of Technology Faculty and Courses

The following is a list of faculty, their expertise and courses that LIDS members may find to be of interest at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.  These lists do not represent a comprehensive list of law and development offerings at MIT, and these courses and/or faculty members may not be offered every year, but they are meant to be useful suggestions for students interested in law and development.

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Professor Name	Areas of Interest	Courses Taught
Amy Smith	appropriate technology	D-Lab
Bish Sanyal	Urban economy and housing Planning institutions and processes Role of NGOs in development	Informal Sector and Household Economy D-Lab Shelter, Settlement and Development: Design and Planning Challenges of Contemporary Indian Cities
Victor Grau Serrat	Co-director at D-Lab Role of technology in development
Esther Duflo	– microeconomic issues in developing countries, including household behavior, education, access to finance, health and policy evaluation	Foundations of Development Policy The Challenge of World Poverty
Abhijit Banerjee	development economics economic theory	Political Economy
Richard Locke	labor standards globalization entrepreneurship in developing countries corporate social responsibility
Roberto Rigobon	development economics monetary economics international economics	Sustainable Development and Social Entrepreneurship
Simon Johnson	financial and economic crises
Alex (Sandy) Pentland	wearable computers, health systems and technology for developing countries	Development Ventures
Susan Murcott	water and sanitation	Water and Sanitation Infrastructure in Developing Countries
Diane Davis	comparative urban politics and policy relations between urban and national development insecurity and violence in cities in developing world cities and globalization	Transnationalism and Development
Annette Kim	cities in transition countries property rights project appraisal public finance in development countries	Urban Public Finance in Developing Countries Housing Problems and Policies in Developing Countries Property Rights Under Transition Project Evaluation in Developing Countries
Balakrishnan Rajagopal (Ford International Associate Professor of Law and Development)	human rights and international development planning comparative and international approaches to constitutional law and land use law impact of international law on globalization and governance of cities and countries relationships between social movements, law and sociopolitical and cultural change	Introduction to International Development Planning Human Rights in Theory and Practice Property Rights Under Transition Governance and Law in Development Countries
Dave Donaldson	development economics international trade	The Challenge of World Poverty
Robert Townsend	risk and insurance in development countries	Developmetn Economics: Macro Issues
Michael Greenstone	environmental economics economic and helath impacts of indoor air pollution, climate change, air pollution, and clean water in developing countries
Reinhard Goethert	design of housing and housing policy in developing countries participatory planning methdologies participation of private enterprise	Structuring Low Income Housing Projects in Developing Countries
Judith Tendler	performance of public services in developing countries subnational economic development organizational behavior	Political Economy of Development Projects: Targeting the Poor