Amy Chua

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Amy Chua (Simplified Chinese: 蔡美儿, born 1962) in the United States, is the John M. Duff, Jr. Professor of Law at Yale Law School. She joined the Yale faculty in 2001 after teaching at Duke Law School. She specializes in the study of international business transactions, law and development, ethnic conflict, and globalization and the law.

Chua is the author of the New York Times bestseller, World on Fire: How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred and Global Instability (2003), which explores the ethnic conflict caused in many societies by disproportionate economic and political influence of "market dominant minorities" and the resulting resentment in the less affluent majority. The book examines how globalization and democratization since 1989 have affected the relationship between market dominant minorities and the wider population. Chua's parents were members of the entrepreunerial and highly successful Chinese minority in the Phillipines before emigrating to the United States.

Chua graduated from Harvard College in 1984 and Harvard Law School in 1987.