Amy Chua to speak at BYU forum address; free for all to attend

February, 2022

The renowned lawyer, professor, and writer will speak on BYU’s 2021-22 forum theme of “building the beloved community.”​

PROVO, Utah Feb 15, 2022—Yale law professor Dr. Amy Chua will address BYU students and staff at 11:05am March 29th at the Marriott Center on campus. While BYU forums are directed primarily towards the BYU students and staff, they are open to anyone, both in person and live on BYUtv.

Dr. Chua received a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering and went on to pursue a PhD in law. She is now the John M. Duff Professor of Law at Yale Law School and the author of five books, on topics as diverse as international relations and parenting. The product of a traditionally Chinese upbringing in the United States, Dr. Chua has a particular interest in understanding American subcultures and how they have affected our ways of thinking.

For her book The Triple Package, she undertook an extensive study on eight thriving cultural subgroups within the United States: Indian, Iranian, Lebanese, Chinese, Nigerian, and Cuban Americans, as well as Jews, and members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, in order to find shared factors in these communities predictive of success. In Day of Empire, she studied seven major empires and contended that their success largely depended on their treatment of minorities. In Political Tribes she examined the relationship between loyalty to political groups and ideological considerations.

As the child of Chinese immigrant parents and an ethnic minority in the United States, she provides a perspective on the aforementioned topics that is valuable for BYU students to hear. In the school’s recently released statement on belonging, it stresses the importance of fostering an environment in which students “value and embrace the variety of individual characteristics, life experiences and circumstances, perspectives, talents, and gifts of each member of the community and the richness and strength they bring to [it],” and hearing Dr. Chua speak will be an important step in that direction. 

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