Frank H. Wu
Dean and Professor of Law
Office Address: Library Building 3325
Telephone: (313) 577-3933
E-Mail: frankhwu@wayne.edu
EDUCATION:
B.A. The Johns Hopkins University (1988)
J.D. Michigan Law School (1991)
PROFILE:
Frank H. Wu is the author of Yellow: Race in America Beyond Black and White, which was immediately reprinted in its hardcover edition, and co-author of Race, Rights and Reparation: Law and the Japanese American Internment. In 2004, he returned to his hometown of Detroit to serve as the ninth Dean of Wayne State University Law School; he will be completing his tenure this academic year. In the 2008-09 academic year, he will be a Visiting Professor at University of Maryland and George Washington University.
Dean Wu serves as a Trustee of Gallaudet University, the only university in the United States serving primarily deaf and hard of hearing, and he became Vice-Chair of the Board in 2006. He has been an adjunct professor at Columbia University, a visiting professor at University of Michigan, and a teaching fellow at Stanford University. He also has taught over several short periods at Deep Springs College, a highly-selective full-scholarship all-male school enrolling twenty-six on a student-run cattle ranch near Death Valley.
Dean Wu served briefly by appointment of the D.C. Court of Appeals on its Board of Professional Responsibility, which adjudicates attorney discipline matters, as well as two terms on Board hearing committees. He was appointed by Mayor Anthony Williams as Chair of the D.C. Human Rights Commission for 2001-02. He joined the Board of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights Education Fund in 2004. He is an elected member of the American Law Institute, and a member of the Committee of 100, a civic group founded by Yo-Yo Ma and I.M. Pei, among others, to promote Asian American political participation, as well as a fellow of the American Bar Foundation.
He is the recipient of the 2008 Chang-Lin Tien Education Leadership Award from the Asian Pacific Fund, named for the late Chancellor of University of California at Berkeley and selected from a national pool of nominees. His media appearances have included the Oprah Winfrey show, Now with Bill Moyers, Lehrer Newshour, O’Reilly Factor, Book Notes with Brian Lamb, Talk Back Live on CNN, National Public Radio, Voice of America, Fox Movie Channel with George Takai, and the Al Franken show. He has hosted episodes of the “Asian America” PBS-syndicated television show.
Prior to his academic career, Dean Wu held a clerkship with the late U.S. District Judge Frank J. Battisti in Cleveland and practiced law with the firm of Morrison & Foerster in San Francisco. He received a B.A. from the Johns Hopkins University and a J.D. from the University of Michigan. He has completed the Management Development Program of the Harvard University Graduate School of Education.
