Frank H. Wu

Frank H. Wu is a law professor, author, and public intellectual. He is the chancellor and dean of the University of California, Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco, California, a position he assumed in July 2010. In 2013, the National Jurist ranked Wu as the most influential dean in legal education and the third in the nation among legal educators and advocates influencing the ongoing debate about legal education. He was the first Asian American professor to teach at Howard Law School, as well as the first Asian American to serve as dean of Wayne State University Law School in Detroit, Michigan. Wu is the author of Yellow: Race in America Beyond Black and White, which was immediately re-printed in hardcover. Arguing for a new paradigm of civil rights that goes beyond a black-white paradigm, while also addressing subtle forms of racial discrimination, the book has become canonical in Asian American Studies and is widely used in classes on the subject. Yellow appears in both the film, Americanese, an adaptation of American Knees by Shawn Wong, and the book, Secret Identities: The Asian American Superhero Anthology. Wu himself has appeared as a character in Asian America: The Movement and the Moment.

In addition, Wu received the largest grant issued by the federal Civil Liberties and Public Education Fund, to co-author Race, Rights and Reparation: Law and the Japanese Internment, now the leading textbook on Asian Americans and the law. He has contributed to Fanfare Magazine, reviews for ATPM.com (About This Particular Macintosh), and regularly publishes in various other law reviews, newspapers, online journals, including a blog in the Huffington Post. Wu is represented by the American Programs Bureau. He has published an op-ed article "Why Vincent Chin Matters" in the New York Times and is currently writing a follow-up book to Yellow about the Vincent Chin case.