Professor Tamar Frankel Named to Lawdragon Hall of Fame
Publication recognizes outstanding and enduring contributions to the profession.
Michaels Faculty Research Scholar and Professor of Law Tamar Frankel has been named to the Lawdragon Hall of Fame, created to commemorate the publication’s 10th anniversary.
Honorees are broken into one of eight categories, recognizing 100 attorneys who have made remarkable contributions as leaders, litigators, dealmakers, power brokers, judges, and innovators. Professor Frankel is one of only five legal educators honored, and the only professor recognized among the Innovators. Others named include US Supreme Court Justices Sandra Day O’Connor, William Rehnquist, and John Paul Stevens, as well other prominent private practitioners, corporate counsel, professors, government attorneys, judges, and nonprofit and public interest attorneys.
Hall of Fame honorees were chosen from past members of the Lawdragon 500, an annual list of top names in the legal profession, as well as other notable attorneys who have influenced the profession. Professor Frankel was recognized on the 2005 list. This year’s Lawdragon 500 acknowledged Dean O’Rourke and four alumni: Richard Godfrey (’79), Jay Kasner (’80), Jane Michaels (’73), and Nancy Shilepsky (’77).
Professor Frankel is an esteemed scholar of fiduciary law, corporate governance, mutual funds and the regulation of the financial system. She has published 10 books and more than 80 articles and book chapters. WealthManagerWeb has named her among the 50 Top Women in Wealth Management. In addition, she was noted 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).
In 2013, the Institute for Fiduciary Standard established the annual Frankel Fiduciary Prize in her honor to award individuals who have contributed significantly to advancing the fiduciary principals in public life. Boston University School of Law will celebrate the Frankel Fiduciary Prize with a symposium and award ceremony on September 18.