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. In 2008, he will be leaving the deanship and will return to Washington, D.C., to be a Visiting Professor at University of Maryland and George Washington University.

Professor 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. From 1995 to 2004, Professor Wu was on the law faculty of Howard University. He has been an adjunct professor at Columbia University, a visiting professor at University of Michigan, and a teaching fellow at Stanford University. 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 fellow of the American Bar Foundation.

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.