 | Amy Chua |
Amy Chua, the newly appointed John M. Duff Jr. Professor of Law, has focused her work on contracts, international business transactions, law and development, ethnic conflict and globalization and the law.
Her 2003 book "World on Fire: How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred and Global Instability" was a New York Times bestseller. It was also selected by both The Economist and the United Kingdom's Guardian as one of the best books of that year. In the book, which has been translated into six other languages, Chua asserts that free markets and democracy exported from the West have incited economic devastation, ethnic hatred and genocide in some vulnerable developing nations.
Chua has also written three book chapters and has addressed the issue of global capitalism and its affect on ethnic conflict and instability. She has lectured at numerous government and policymaking institutions, including the World Bank, the United Nations, the Central Intelligence Agency, the Brookings Institution, and the Royal Institute of International Affairs in London. She has also spoken about the paradox of free-market democracy at universities and to various organizations and groups throughout the world.
Chua earned her undergraduate and J.D. degrees from Harvard. She was an executive editor of the Harvard Law Review. After graduation, she clerked for Chief Judge Patricia Wald of the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. She practiced with the Wall Street firm of Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton, where she worked on international transactions throughout Asia, Europe and Latin America, including the privatization of Teléfonos de México. She left the firm to join the faculty at Duke University in 1994. She joined the Yale Law School faculty in 2001 and received the school's Distinguished Teaching Award in 2003.
Chua has held visiting professorships at the New York University School of Law and Stanford and Columbia universities. She held the Council on Foreign Relations' International Affairs Fellowship 1998-1999.
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