Angela C. Wu, Esq.

International Law Director
The Becket Fund
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Angela C. Wu is International Law Director at the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty.  She left New York to join the Becket Fund in 2005.  Since then, she has testified, lectured, and taught on religious freedom issues affecting people of all faiths. She has worked on cases before United Nations tribunals, the U.S. Supreme Court, the European Court of Human Rights, and domestic courts in countries around the world.  She serves on the governing Bureau of the United Nations NGO Committee on Freedom of Religion or Belief.

Angela obtained thesis honors in Modern Intellectual History from Northwestern University and a J.D., cum laude, from Harvard Law School. While at Harvard, she ran the Battered Women’s Advocacy Project, edited the Civil Rights/Civil Liberties Law Review and the Harvard Human Rights Journal, and worked for the Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division Appellate Section. 

After law school, Angela was a Fulbright Fellow in Brussels, Belgium, where she obtained a D.E.S. in European Law from the Université Libre de Bruxelles.  She clerked in the federal circuit courts of appeal for the Honorable William W Schwarzer in San Francisco.  Angela has worked for Oxfam America in Boston, and served as a negotiations consultant on civil society issues to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development in Paris.  She was litigating hostile corporate takeovers and political asylum cases with Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP in New York when the Becket Fund called.

Angela's research interests include hybrid legal systems and how regulation of religion externalizes the conscience.  She has also developed a modular curriculum in rule of law and religious freedom adaptable for jurists, laypersons, and clerics with varying levels of education.

Angela speaks English, French, Mandarin Chinese, and Taiwanese to varying degrees of fluency.  She enjoys dictionaries and design.  In 2006 Relevant Magazine named Angela one of 9 young people "out to change the world." 

Bar Memberships:  New York, District of Columbia