{"id":83330,"date":"2021-09-10T12:58:40","date_gmt":"2021-09-10T16:58:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/?post_type=profile&p=83330"},"modified":"2023-07-24T16:29:16","modified_gmt":"2023-07-24T20:29:16","slug":"elizabeth-frumkin","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/profile\/elizabeth-frumkin\/","title":{"rendered":"Elizabeth Frumkin"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ms. Frumkin<\/strong> graduated with honors from Dartmouth College and with honors from the University of Chicago Law School, where she was an editor of the University of Chicago Law Review<\/em>. Following law school, she served as Law Clerk to the Honorable Michael Daly Hawkins on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Following her clerkship, she was a Litigation Associate at Kirkland & Ellis in Chicago and at Ropes & Gray in Boston, where she handled a variety of complex litigation, including commercial, securities, and tort law matters. While at Ropes & Gray, she led the Litigation Department\u2019s pro bono program, in which litigation associates represented clients seeking political asylum.<\/p>\n

Ms. Frumkin served as Assistant Attorney General in the Appeals Division of the Massachusetts Attorney General\u2019s Criminal Bureau, where she handled a wide-ranging caseload that included both civil and criminal matters at all levels of state and federal court in Massachusetts, including appellate work arising out of the Attorney General’s criminal prosecutions; the representation of judges, prosecutors, and other officials of the Massachusetts criminal justice system; and a variety of other civil and criminal litigation affecting the Massachusetts criminal justice system.<\/p>\n

Ms. Frumkin then joined the faculty at Harvard Law School, where she taught as a Climenko\/Thayer Lecturer in Law and participated in the creation and implementation of Harvard’s First-Year Lawyering Program, a year-long lawyering skills course now required of all Harvard 1L students. She then joined the faculty at the University of Texas School of Law, where she taught Constitutional Law: Foreign Affairs and the Constitution, Legal Issues in the War on Terrorism, and Fundamentals of American Law, a required course for international LLM students.<\/p>\n

Ms. Frumkin has been deeply involved as a community leader and has served on numerous municipal and non-profit boards, working in such areas as environmental conservation, community service, philanthropy, and education.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17070,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/83330"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17070"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/83330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102642,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/83330\/revisions\/102642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}