Tamar Frankel (born July 4, 1925 in

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) has been a professor of law at

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since 1968. Her areas of scholarship include financial system regulation, fiduciary law, corporate governance, the Internet, and

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. A native of

Israel Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a country in West Asia. It Borders of Israel, shares borders with Lebanon to the north, Syria to the north-east, Jordan to the east, Egypt to the south-west, and the Mediterranean Sea to the west. Isr ...

, she has taught at

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Tokyo University The University of Tokyo (, abbreviated as in Japanese and UTokyo in English) is a public research university in Bunkyō, Tokyo, Japan. Founded in 1877 as the nation's first modern university by the merger of several pre-westernisation era ins ...

, and lectured in

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and

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, and has consulted with the

People's Bank of China The People's Bank of China (officially PBC and unofficially PBOC) is the central bank of the People's Republic of China. It is responsible for carrying out monetary policy as determined by the ''PRC People's Bank Law'' and the ''PRC Commercia ...

. She has been a Faculty Fellow at the

Berkman Center for Internet and Society The Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society is a research center at Harvard University that focuses on the study of cyberspace. Founded at Harvard Law School, the center traditionally focused on internet-related legal issues. On May 15, 2008, ...

, and was a guest scholar at the

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in Washington, D.C. In addition, she has taught at Harvard Law School and Harvard Business School; she has also lectured at Switzerland and Canada. In 1998, Professor Frankel was instrumental in the establishment and corporate structure of the Internet Corporation for Names and Numbers (ICANN). Professor Frankel is a frequent contributor to the Justia Verdict blog. She earned a LLM and SJD from

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Her Books

1. '' The Ponzi Scheme Puzzle: A History and Analysis of Con Artists and Victims'', 2. ''Fiduciary Law'', ''3. Trust and Honesty: America’s Business Culture at a Crossroad'', ''4. Investment Management Regulation'', ''5. Securitization'', ''6. The Regulation of Money Managers''.

Personal life

She is married to Ray Atkins and they have two children, six grandchildren and two great grand children.

References

Living people Boston University School of Law faculty 1925 births Israeli expatriates in the United States Harvard Law School alumni {{US-legal-academic-bio-stub