Tamar Frankel

Michaels Faculty Research Scholar
Professor of Law
LL.M., S.J.D., Harvard Law School
Diploma, Jerusalem Law Classes, Israel

Interests: financial system regulation; fiduciary law; corporate governance; the Internet

Professor Tamar Frankel has written and taught in the areas of mutual funds, securitization, financial system regulation, fiduciary law and corporate governance. She is the author of The Regulation of Money Managers (2d ed. with Ann Taylor Schwing), Securitization (1991) and Investment Management Regulation (2d ed. 2003 with Clifford E. Kirsch). She has published more than 40 articles and book chapters, and has co-chaired the 10th year of ALI-ABA Investment Management Advanced Course (October 2004). In 1998, Professor Frankel was instrumental in the establishment and corporate structure of the Internet Corporation for Names and Numbers.

"What's most interesting to me is simply the process of discovering - finding puzzles, pondering explanations and critically examining the views of others," she says. "I enjoy continually expanding into new subject areas."

A member of the Boston University School of Law faculty since 1968, Professor Frankel was awarded the LL.M. (1964) and S.J.D. (1971) from Harvard Law School, was a visiting scholar at the Securities and Exchange Commission (1995-1997) and at the Brookings Institution (1987). She has taught and lectured at Oxford University, Tokyo University, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and consulted with the People's Bank of China. She is a member of the Massachusetts Bar, the American Law Institute, The American Bar Foundation, The Independent Directors Forum and the Berkman Center of the Internet and Society.

A native of Israel, Professor Frankel has been an attorney in the legal department of the Israeli Air Force, an assistant attorney general for Israel's Ministry of Justice and the legal advisor of the State of Israel Bonds Organization in Europe. She also has been in private practice in Israel, Boston and Washington, D.C., and has been a visiting professor at numerous international law and graduate schools. In her private moments, she spends time with her husband, children and grandchildren and is involved in writing her family history.