Angela Wu Howard is a Senior Law Fellow at the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty. She formerly served as Becket’s Executive and International Law Director.

Angela holds a B.A. with honors in Modern Intellectual History from Northwestern University; a J.D., cum laude, from Harvard Law School; a D.E.S. in European Law from the Université Libre de Bruxelles, where she was a Fulbright Fellow; and a D.Phil. in legal theory from the University of Oxford. She clerked in San Francisco for the Honorable William W Schwarzer (sitting by designation on federal circuit courts of appeal), 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 has also served on the governing Bureau of the United Nations NGO Committee on Freedom of Religion or Belief. Angela was litigating hostile corporate takeovers and political asylum cases with Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP in New York when Becket called. Her current work focuses on connecting practice and theory in religious freedom law.

Angela speaks English fluently and French, Mandarin Chinese, and Taiwanese to varying degrees of competency. She enjoys dictionaries, design, and Charlotte Mason homeschooling.