Chancellor and Dean Frank H. Wu

In summer 2010, following a national search, Frank H. Wu began service as Chancellor and Dean of UC Hastings. A law professor and former dean, as well as author of leading works on Asian Americans, Chancellor and Dean Wu practiced law in the San Francisco office of the Morrison & Foerster law firm prior to his academic career.

Chancellor and Dean Wu has offered a three-point plan for the future of Hastings.

First, higher education must train students for their careers by giving them the actual skills needed to succeed in the profession;

Second, the lawyers of today must be ready to function within a global economy with a trans-Pacific emphasis; and,

Third, the best advocates and counselors are those who blend their technical abilities in analyzing formal doctrine with the insights of other disciplines as well, becoming problem-solvers and leaders.

Chancellor and Dean Wu is dedicated to institutional advancement. He has started both a strategic planning process and a major effort to ensure that Hastings maintains and improves on its reputation as one of the leading law schools of California and the United States. He expects to undertake a comprehensive capital campaign, the first such effort for the institution.

See Dean Wu's faculty bio and publications.