Aug. 17, 2004

DETROIT - Wayne State University Director of Athletics Rob Fournier announced today the appointment of Frank H. Wu, the new Dean of the Law School, as the WSU Faculty Athletics Representative.

Wu came to the Law School this spring after nine years as a professor at Howard University School of Law, where he taught civil procedure, immigration law, federal courts and evidence. He also directed the Clinical Law Center at Howard for two years.

Dean Wu has also taught as a visiting professor at the University of Michigan Law School, adjunct professor at Columbia Law School, fellow at Stanford Law School, and as a short-term faculty member at Deep Springs College. He practiced law for two years in San Francisco, and clerked for the late U.S. District Court Judge Frank J. Battisti in Cleveland.

Dean Wu's book, Yellow: Race in America Beyond Black and White, was published in 2002. His co-authored textbook, Race, Rights and Reparation: Law and the Japanese American Internment, was issued in 2001. Publications in which his numerous articles have appeared include the Michigan Law Review, the National Law Journal, the Chronicle of Higher Education, as well as the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times and the Detroit Free Press.

Most recently he has served on the Board of Professional Responsibility for the District of Columbia Court of Appeals, on the Board of Trustees of Gallaudet University, and as Chair of the D.C. Human Rights Commission. He is an elected member of the American Law Institute and a fellow of the American Bar Foundation.

A 1991 cum laude graduate of the University of Michigan Law School, Dean Wu's undergraduate degree in writing is from The Johns Hopkins University.

A native of the Detroit area, Dean Wu replaces Mel Small as the WSU Faculty Athletics Representative.