page_title: Amy Chua
section_title: Personal life
hierarchical_section_title: Amy Chua / Personal life
caption_attribution_description: English: Amy Chua the "Tiger Mom" and her daughters at the 2011 Time 100 gala.
context_page_description: Amy Lynn Chua is an American law professor and writer.
  Chua graduated from Harvard College and Harvard Law School. She is the John M. Duff Jr. Professor of Law at Yale Law School. Her expertise is in international business transactions, law and development, ethnic conflict, and globalization and the law. She joined the Yale faculty in 2001 after teaching at Duke Law School for seven years. Prior to starting her teaching career, she was a corporate law associate at Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton.
  She is also known for her parenting memoir Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother. In 2011, she was named one of Time magazine's 100 most influential people, one of The Atlantic's Brave Thinkers, and one of Foreign Policy's Global Thinkers.
context_section_description: Chua lives in New Haven, Connecticut, and is married to Yale Law School professor Jed Rubenfeld. She has two daughters, Sophia and Louisa ("Lulu"). The former appeared in the New Yorker as a Harvard member of Kappa Alpha Theta and the ROTC. She said she was unprepared for the spotlight when Tiger Mother was released, and her membership in the latter two groups were part of a way to find normalcy. She also said that she envisions being a military prosecutor, with a focus on sexual assault. Sophia graduated from Yale Law School in 2018; she majored in philosophy and South Asian Studies as an undergraduate studies. On June 10, 2019, the Associated Press reported that Sophia would clerk for Justice Brett Kavanaugh.
  Lulu is a student at Harvard Law School, as well as a graduate of Harvard College, where she majored in history and was president of the Sab Club.
caption: Chua and her daughters at the 2011 Time 100 gala
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