Candice Lang ('10) earns Fulbright to work in Kazakhstan

June 11, 2010

Currently foreign investments into the Kazakh economy are heavily focused in the oil and natural gas sectors. Thanks to a fellowship from the Fulbright Program, after graduation from BU Law, Candice Lang ('10) work in Kazakhstan for a year to encourage investment in other areas.

"I will try to create regulatory solutions to balance the direction of foreign investment into other sectors of the economy such as manufacturing, technology, or agriculture," she explained.

Sponsored by the United States Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, the Fulbright Program provides funding for students, scholars, teachers and professionals to undertake graduate study, advanced research, university teaching and teaching in elementary and secondary schools. She will be one of more than 1,500 students who receive a Fulbright U.S. Student grant each year to "study, teach and conduct research, exchange ideas and contribute to finding solutions to shared international concerns" overseas, acording to the grant Web site.

"My interest in the region began in high school where I studied Russian," said Lang. She went to University of Arkansas for a bachelor's in International Business, where she graduated cum laude and was a Merit Scholarship Recipient. "In college I studied abroad in Irkutsk, Russia and knew that I wanted to continue learning about this part of the world."

After graduation, she joined the Peace Corps, and was placed in Azerbaijan as a Community Economic Development volunteer. "I was placed with a local NGO and helped develop their programs as well as the programs of other local and international NGOs that were in the country," she said. "I did everything from teach business classes to small business owners, to research projects on how to improve efficiencies within particular product markets." Among other duties, she partnered with Adventist Development and Relief Agency's local vocational training center, and founded a career center. She was the only American in a rural small community where she helped out internally displaced people affected by the ongoing Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, she said. While there, she learned how to speak Azerbaijani.

But after two years there, Lang realized she needed more education to move into policy-level development work. At BU Law, she joined the International Law Society, and participated in the Africa Parliamentary Legislative Drafting Clinic, where she worked on improving the mobile banking industry for rural populations in Tanzania by harmonizing banking and telecommunications regulations. In the ABA Client Counseling Competition, Lang was a 2008 BU Winner, Northeast Regional Finalist. She was a summer associate at Gunderson Dettmer Stough Villeneuve Franklin & Hachigian, LLP, and and spent an earlier summer at the Legal Advocacy and Resource Center (LARC) in Boston.

Lang sees the Fulbright as the next step in her pursuit of a career involving foreign policy creation and implementation.

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Ashley Anderson ('11) receives MA Black Judges Book Award

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Ashley S. Anderson, a member of the Boston University School of Law Class of 2011, is the BU Law recipient of the 2010 Massachusetts Black Judges Book Award.

This award is given to candidates who have demonstrated academic success and leadership skills. Anderson serves as the external vice president of the School's Black Law Students Association (BLSA), and she has been very active in service activities, including joining with others to start a new mentoring program at local high schools and serving as a co-director of the Orientation Service Day last August. She is cofounder and director of the Pay it Forward Mentoring Program, a member of LALSA (Latin American Law Student Association), a Moot Court competitor, and a Student Welcomer. Last summer, she worked at the Children’s Law Center of Massachusetts, and this summer she’ll be with Michael Best and Friedrich.

A native of Evanston, IL, Anderson received her bachelor’s in finance and operations management in 2008 from the Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California.

As BU Law Associate Dean for Student Affairs Christine Marx noted, “This is a very prestigious and competitive award. The Massachusetts Black Judges Conference is comprised of several renowned Massachusetts judges, who created this award to recognize the outstanding achievements of award recipients. Ashley’s academic excellence and commitment to service make her a truly worthy recipient of this award, and we are very proud of her accomplishments.”

A ceremony honoring Ashley and recipients from the other Massachusetts law schools was held April 15 at the John Adams Courthouse. Said Anderson, "It's an honor to be recognized by such a distinguished organization. BU Law has provided a wonderful environment to allow me to excel at academics, but also give back to my community. I thank the judges of the Mass. Black Judges Conference for continuing to pave the way and for their support."

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BU Law Professor Named a Top 50 Woman in Wealth

June 11, 2010

Wealth Manager Honors Professor Tamar Frankel

Wealth Manager’s Web magazine recently named Boston University School of Law professor Tamar Frankel to its list of Top 50 Women in Wealth. According to WealthManagerWeb.com, these 50 women are “collectively responsible for the financial well-being of millions of Americans.”

The annual Top 50 Women in Wealth list recognizes women such as Professor Frankel as chief figures in the growing trend of women taking on senior roles in the industry and making important contributions to the field, both in advisory and executive roles.

At BU Law, Professor Frankel teaches and writes in the areas of mutual funds, securitization, financial system regulation, fiduciary law and corporate governance. She has published more than 40 articles and more than 10 books, including the recently released Law and the Financial System—Securitization and Asset Backed Securities: Law, Process, Case Studies, and Simulations, and the upcoming Theory of Fiduciary Law. She is also the author of The Regulation of Money Managers and Investment Management Regulation, Securitization, which was recently translated into Chinese, Fiduciary Law: Analysis, Definitions, Relationships, Duties, Remedies over History and Cultures; Trust and Honesty in the Real World, and Investment Management Regulation, among other books.

Professor Frankel is a graduate of Jerusalem Law Classes in Israel, and received her S.J.D. and LL.M. from Harvard Law School. She has taught and lectured at Oxford University, Tokyo University, and in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and was a visiting scholar at the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Brookings Institute. She was 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. Professor Frankel joined the BU Law faculty in 1968, and she teaches and writes in the areas of mutual funds, securitization, financial system regulation, fiduciary law and corporate governance.

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