Frank Isaac Michelman (born May 26, 1936)[2] is an American legal scholar and the Robert Walmsley University Professor Emeritus at Harvard Law School.

This article was cited by the majority in its opinion in Penn Central v. New York City, the Supreme Court case that dealt with the authority of a local New York City landmark law that forbade the railroad company from putting up a skyscraper above the historic Grand Central Terminal structure.

He was selected for the award largely due to his article, "Property, Utility, and Fairness: Comments on the Ethical Foundations of 'Just Compensation' Law", 80 Har.L.

In 2005 he won the American Philosophical Society's Henry M. Phillips Prize, which he was awarded at a November ceremony in Philadelphia.

As of 2022, the prize has been given only twenty-six times since it was established in 1888, and honored Michelman's significant contributions to the field of jurisprudence.