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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, which received a major grant from the Civil Liberties Public Education Fund. In the 2009-2010 academic year, he rejoined the faculty of Howard University, where he was formerly a full Professor and Clinic Director. From 2004 to 2008, he served as the ninth Dean of Wayne State University Law School in his hometown of Detroit. He has been an adjunct professor at Columbia University, a visiting professor at George Washington University, University of Maryland, University of Michigan, and a teaching fellow at Stanford University. He also taught at the new Peking University School of Transnational Law, a unique English language J.D. program opened by the leading institution of higher education in China on its Shenzhen campus, in its inaugural year.
Professor Wu became a Trustee of Gallaudet
University, the only university in the world serving primarily deaf and hard of
hearing, in 2000, and he assumed the Vice-Chairmanship of the Board in 2006. He
also has taught over several short periods at
Professor Wu served briefly by appointment of the D.C. Court of Appeals on its Board of Professional Responsibility, which adjudicates attorney discipline matters, after 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 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, and the 2007 Trailblazer Award from the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association
Prior to his academic career, Professor 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.
He is married to Carol L. Izumi, and they live in the city of Washington, D.C.
