Professor Tamar Frankel to Retire after a Half Century Serving on the BU Law Faculty
The first female professor to join the LAW faculty when she began her career in 1968, Professor Frankel will retire at the end of the 2017–2018 academic year.
After serving on the BU Law faculty for the past half century, Professor Tamar Frankel will retire from teaching at the end of the 2017–2018 academic year. She was the first female professor to join the law school faculty when she began her career at BU Law in 1967.
Over the course of her career, she has published 10 books and more than 80 articles and book chapters. She writes and teaches in the areas of fiduciary law, corporate governance, mutual funds, and the regulation of the financial system. She was recently profiled in the Wall Street Journal as the “intellectual godmother of the fiduciary rule.”
The Institute for Fiduciary Standard established the annual Frankel Fiduciary Prize in her honor in 2013 to recognize individuals who advance fiduciary principles. In January, she will be presented with the Ruth Bader Ginsburg Lifetime Achievement Award from the Association of American Law Schools’ Section on Women in Legal Education.
WealthManagerWeb has named her among the 50 Top Women in Wealth Management. In addition, she was noted as one of the most well-known 500 lawyers on Lawdragon, and as one of the Women Trailblazers in the Law by the ABA Commission project on Women in the Profession. In 1998, Professor Frankel was instrumental in establishing and designing the corporate structure of the Internet Corporation for Names and Numbers (ICANN).
Professor Frankel was a visiting scholar at the Securities and Exchange Commission (1995–1997) and at the Brookings Institution (1987). She has lectured at Oxford University, Tokyo University, Harvard Law School, and Harvard Business School. She consulted with the People’s Bank of China and lectured in Canada, India, Malaysia, and Switzerland.
A native of Israel, Professor Frankel served as 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 has been in private practice in Israel, Boston, and Washington, DC and is a member of the Massachusetts Bar, the American Law Institute, and the American Bar Foundation.