Edward F. Sherman

Edward F. Sherman
Residence New Orleans, Louisiana
Citizenship USA
Nationality  United States
Fields Law
Institutions Tulane University Law School
Alma mater Georgetown University
University of Texas at El Paso
Harvard Law School
Influenced Alternative Dispute Resolution, Complex Class Actions
Notable awards 2004 winner of the ABA Robert B. McKay Award for the law professor who had contributed most to the advancement of justice, scholarship and the legal profession

Edward F. Sherman served as the 20th dean and is currently the W.R. Irby Chair in Law at the Tulane University Law School. He teaches Civil Procedure and Alternative Dispute Resolution. He was previously the Moise F. Steeg, Jr. Professor of Law at Tulane.[1] He has taught at several other schools, including the University of Texas (for 19 years), Harvard Law School, Stanford Law School, and the University of London. Through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) he helped Vietnam write a new code of civil procedure.[2] In 1970, he was a founding board member of the Lawyers Military Defense Committee, which provided free-of-charge civilian counsel to U.S. military members in Vietnam and West Germany.

Education

Sherman has five degrees. He earned is BA from Georgetown University, two MA degrees from the University of Texas at El Paso, and both an LLB and SJD from Harvard University.[3]

Policy stances

Awards

Publications

Sherman has authored or edited 19 books and has contributed chapters to 20 more. He has also authored over 50 articles, including two in the Yale Law Journal. Some of his more widely know contributions are listed below.

Books

Articles

External links

See also

References

  1. Alan Rau Scott, et al., Processes of Dispute Resolution: The Role of Lawyers, 4th Ed., Foundation Press, 2006, page i.
  2. http://www.law.tulane.edu/tlsfaculty/profiles.aspx?id=466e
  3. http://www.law.tulane.edu/tlsfaculty/profiles.aspx?id=466
  4. Edward F. Sherman, Court-Mandated Alternative Dispute Resolution: What Form of Participation Should Be Required?, 46 SMU L. Rev. 2079, 2103-08 (1993).
  5. Edward F. Sherman, A Process Model and Agenda for Civil Justice Reforms in the States, 46 Stanford L.Rev. 1553, 1580-82 (1994).
Academic offices
Preceded by
John R. Kramer
Tulane University Law School Dean
July 1996 June 2001
Succeeded by
Lawrence Ponoroff