Frederick Tung

Biography

Fred Tung is the Howard Zhang Faculty Research Scholar and Professor of Law at Boston University School of Law. Over the course of his career, he has researched and taught courses in the areas of international business transactions, international economic relations, corporations, and bankruptcy, as well as the governance of financial institutions. Prior to joining the BU faculty, he was the Robert T. Thompson Professor of Law and Business at Emory University School of Law. He has been a visiting professor at Harvard Law School, a Professor of Law and Dean’s Fellow at Loyola Law School, a Roger T. Traynor Professor in Corporate Law at Hastings College of the Law, and a fellow at the Searle-Kauffman Institute on Law, Innovation, and Growth. Professor Tung is a member of the American Law Institute. He testified in Congress before the Congressional Oversight Panel for the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP). He has also served as a consultant on law reform for the Ministry of Justice in Ethiopia, when it sought to revamp its commercial law and court systems. In addition, he worked with the Center for Commercial Law and Economics in Indonesia, with USAID sponsorship, to design a seminar series on corporate reorganization law for Indonesian government officials, academics, and lawyers. Professor Tung has been a permanent blogger with the popular corporate law blog Conglomerate. He has been a lecturer in the law department at Peking University, and has served on the Consumer Law Task Force of the Atlanta Legal Aid Society. Proficient in Mandarin, he was an interpreter for ABC News covering the Democracy Movement in Beijing.

Before entering law teaching, Professor Tung clerked for the Honorable Stanley A. Weigel in the US District Court for the Northern District of California, and practiced corporate and bankruptcy law with Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher in Los Angeles and San Francisco. He also worked as a software engineer in Silicon Valley before going to law school.

Professor Tung is a member of the Board of Directors for Breakthrough Greater Boston (BTGB), a nonprofit organization whose mission is to prepare low-income middle- and high school students for success in college.