170 Millennium - A Marquis Who’s Who Magazine EDUCATION Y. FRANK CHIANG PROFESSOR (RETIRED) Fordham University Law School Forest Hills, NY Highly regarded by his peers and students alike, Y. Frank Chiang celebrates 60 years of success as a lawyer, professor and politician. To promote peace and fairness in society, he pursued a career in law, attending National Taiwan University, the most prestigious public university in his home country of Taiwan. Graduating in 1958 with a Bachelor of Laws, he immigrated to the United States to attend Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, where he earned a Master of Laws in 1962. Shortly thereafter, he achieved a JD at The University of Chicago. While still living in Taiwan, Mr. Chiang worked as an associate at the Yen & Lai Law Office in Taipei, Taiwan’s capital city. After graduating from The University of Chicago in 1965, he was hired by The Lawyers Cooperative Publishing Company in Rochester, New York, where he served as an editor. Moving to Cambridge, Massachusetts, he took a position as a research assistant at the Harvard Law School, where he remained until 1967. Mr. Chiang subsequently became an assistant professor at the University of Georgia School of Law. There, he joined an esteemed staff — which included former United States Deputy Attorney General Larry D. Thomas — in teaching generations of future lawyers. During his tenure at the institution, Mr. Chiang developed a passion for teaching that would become a consistent through line in his life, following him until his retirement in 2020. Mr. Chiang left the University of Georgia in 1972 in favor of an associate professor position at the Fordham University School of Law in New York City. Promoted to a full professor position in 1976, he found a home in Fordham University, teaching at the school for the remainder of his career, as well as serving as the president of the law faculty union for 20 years. Additionally, in 2005, Mr. Chiang spent time at Chuo University in Tokyo, Japan, working as a visiting professor. He is grateful to have made a lasting impact on his students there, with many of them requesting him to supervise their final theses. After 53 years of teaching, he is proud to say that his students have gone on to achieve
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