Amy Chua answered the door of her New Haven home wearing yoga pants and a Myrtle Beach T-shirt that had a curlicue bachelorette-party font now considered cheugy. It's not exactly the look one ...

AMY CHUA is John M. Duff, Jr., Professor of Law at Yale Law School. Her books include Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother and Political Tribes: Group Instinct and the Fate of Nations.

It was at Yale where Vance gained a mentor in the form of his contract law professor, Amy Chua, 61. Chua, who earned her bachelor's and law degree from Harvard, pursued a career in corporate law ...