Frank
H. Wu joined the faculty of the Howard University School of Law
in Washington, D.C., in 1995 and served as clinic director from 2000-02.
Professor Wu’s Yellow: Race in America Beyond Black and White was
published by Basic Books in January 2002. His co-authored textbook, Race,
Rights and Reparation: Law and the Japanese American Internment, was
published in 2001. His more than 200 articles have appeared in periodicals
such as the Washington Post, L.A. Times, Chicago Tribune,
Toronto Star, Atlanta Journal & Constitution, Chronicle
of Higher Education, National Law Journal, Legal Times,
The Nation, and Progressive magazines. Wu is a member of the
Board of Trustees of Gallaudet University, founded to serve the deaf and
hard of hearing. He also is a hearing committee chair for the D.C. Bar Board
of Professional Responsibility, which adjudicates attorney discipline matters.
He was chair of the D.C. Human Rights Commission in 2001-02. He has been
a Scholar in Residence at Deep Springs College, a highly-selective all-male
full-scholarship school located on a student-run cattle ranch in rural California,
and he delivered the 1998 James A. Thomas Lecture at Yale Law School. Before
beginning his academic career, Wu held a clerkship with the late U.S. District
Court Judge Frank J. Battisti in Cleveland and then joined the civil litigation
practice group at Morrison & Foerster in San Francisco. While there,
he devoted a quarter of his time to representing indigents. He received
his B.S. from Johns Hopkins University and his J.D. from University of Michigan.
Wu also served as a Teaching Fellow at Stanford University Law School in
Palo Alto, California in 1994-95. |
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| Calendar | |
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| April 24, 2003 | |
| 1:30-3:30p | Beyond Black and White Student session - Bring
your class |
| 7:30 - 9:00p | Designer Kids The Myth of the Model Minority Community Forum location:
N201 |