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People
Hauser Center Researchers and Staff
Marion Fremont-Smith
Senior Research Fellow
Marion R. Fremont-Smith is
currently Senior Research Fellow at the Hauser Center for Nonprofit
Organizations at Harvard University where she is directing a
research study on Governance and Accountability of Nonprofit
Organizations. Her book, Governing Nonprofit Organizations:
Federal and State Law and Regulation, was published in May, 2004
by the Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. She has published
two studies of conversions, a survey of press reports of wrongdoing
by directors and officers of charities in the The Exempt
Organization Tax Review and numerous other papers on government
regulation of nonprofit organizations. Mrs. Fremont-Smiths
interest in nonprofit organizations began in the 1960's when she
served as Assistant Attorney General and Director of the Division of
Public Charities in Massachusetts. She next served as a research
director for Russell Sage Foundation, conducting two major studies
in philanthropy, Foundations and Government: State and Federal
Law and Supervision, and Philanthropy and the Business
Corporation, published in 1964 and 1966 respectively by the
Foundation. In 1964 she joined the Boston law firm of Choate, Hall
and Stewart where she was elected partner in 1971, a position she
held until 1997 when she became Senior Counsel and joined the Hauser
Center. She retired from the firm in 2003 to devote her time to her
research. In her legal practice Mrs.
Fremont-Smith specialized in the nonprofit area and continued to
write and lecture. She served on the boards of Independent Sector,
the Council on Foundations and the Foundation Center, and as
chairman of the Exempt Organization Committee of the American Bar
Association's Tax Section. She was a member of the Internal Revenue
Service Advisory Group on Exempt Organizations, the Practitioner
Liaison Committee of the Massachusetts Department of Revenue, the
U.S. Secretary of State's Advisory Committee on Private
International Law Study Group on Trusts. Mrs. Fremont-Smith is a
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American
Bar Foundation and the American College of Tax Counsel and a former
member of the American Academy of Trust and Estate Counsel. She is
an Advisor to the American Law Institute project on Principles of
the Law of Nonprofit Organizations and a member of the Advisory
Committee of the Program on Philanthropy and the Law at New York
University Law School. She also serves as director of a number of
national and state charitable organizations, as well as a member of
the Massachusetts Attorney General's Advisory Committee on Public
Charities and a trustee of the Massachusetts Environmental Trust. Mrs. Fremont-Smith
received a B.A. from Wellesley College in 1948 and a J.D. from
Boston University School of Law in 1951.
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