American · b. 1962
Amy Chua is an American legal scholar and writer. She was born in Champaign, Illinois, in 1962 to Chinese immigrant parents who had come from the Philippines. She studied at Harvard College and Harvard Law School, and she has taught at Yale Law School since 2001, where she is the John M. Duff Jr. Professor of Law. Her early books, World on Fire (2003) and Day of Empire (2007), deal with ethnic conflict, free markets and the rise and fall of great powers. Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother (2011) is a memoir about raising her two daughters with strict Chinese-style discipline. It became an international bestseller and set off a wide public debate about parenting. She later wrote The Triple Package (2014) with her husband, Jed Rubenfeld, and Political Tribes (2018), about group identity in American politics. Her work is read in law, politics and popular discussion of family life.