Tamar Frankel
A member of the Boston University School of Law faculty since 1968, Tamar Frankel is a leading expert in the areas of financial system regulation, fiduciary law, and corporate governance. She is the author of Trust and Honesty, and the associated case book Turst and Honesty in the Real World (with Mark Fagan), The Regulation of Money Managers (with Ann Taylor Schwing), Securitization, Second Edition (with Ann Schwing), and Investment Management Regulation, Third Edition (with Clifford E. Kirsch). She has published more than forty articles and book chapters, most recently "Of Theory and Practice" in the Chicago-Kent Law Review and "Trusting and Non-Trusting on the Internet" in the Boston University School of Law Review. Her coming book is Fiduciary Law: The Law of Different
Fiduciary Relationships: Definitions, Duties, Remedies Over History and
Cultures.
"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."
Professor Frankel's recent fascination with the issue of trust in relationships and the role of law in that dynamic led her last year to co-chair a multi-disciplinary conference at Boston University School of Law on Trust Relationships in Law, Economics, Business, Psychology, Technology, and Political Science. Her growing interest in legal changes brought about by the Internet have spurred her involvement as chairperson in 1998 of the International Forum on the White Paper in Washington, Geneva and Singapore, and her participation in open meetings on ICANN in Argentina and Los Angeles.
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 has also been in private practice in Israel, Boston, and Washington, D.C. She has been a visiting professor at numerous international law and graduate schools. Professor Frankel has been serving as co-chair with Mr. Clifford E. Kirsch of ALI-ABA Advance Course on Investment Management. She is a member of the editorial board of The Investment Lawyer and a Council Member of the Mutual Funds Directors Forum.