Michael Yu currently serves as an Associate Professor of Law (with
tenure) at California Western School of Law. He has served as a
Visiting Professor of Law at the University of San Diego School of Law
(Spring 2012) and as a Visiting Associate Professor of Law at the
University of Pittsburgh School of Law (Fall 2012).
Before teaching, he worked in private practice as a trusts and
estates and tax lawyer in San Francisco and in Los Angeles. Before
working in private practice, he served as a law clerk to The Honorable
Thomas B. Wells, Judge, United States Tax Court, and, during law school,
he served as an extern law clerk to The Honorable Theodore H. Katz,
Magistrate Judge, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York.
His teaching and research interests are in trusts and estates and tax
law.