Tam's Stories: An Israeli Woman Lawyer in America

Tamar Frankel came to America first in 1949 with a group of Israeli military tasked to speak to Jewish communities about the Israeli War of Independence. In 1963, she was invited to be a visiting scholar at Harvard Law School. She attended Harvard Law School graduating with LL.M. and SJ.D. and became of Professor of Law at Boston University in 1969. Frankel retired in 2018. She specialized in mutual funds, securitization, financial system regulation, fiduciary law and corporate governance. She taught as a visiting scholar at Harvard, University of California Berkeley, Japan and England along with her teaching duties at Boston University.

She was the author of The Regulation of Money Managers (1978), now in third edition, as well as The Ponzi Scheme Puzzle: A History and Analysis of Con Artists and Victims (2012), Variable Annuities, Variable Insurance and Separate Accounts (1971). She completed Living in Different Cultures, a form of memoir, in 2019. Following her retirement, she has contributed articles to Verdict-Legal Analysis and Commentary and many other publications.

In 2017, she received the Ruth Bader Ginsburg Lifetime Achievement Award. In, 2022, ICANN celebrated Frankel as "an inspiring woman who played a key role in the formation of ICANN."