Edward F. Sherman

Edward F. Sherman
Residence	New Orleans, Louisiana
Nationality	United States
Citizenship	USA
Alma mater	Georgetown University University of Texas at El Paso Harvard Law School
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
Scientific career
Fields	Law
Institutions	Tulane University Law School
Influenced	Alternative Dispute Resolution, Complex Class Actions

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. 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. 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.

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.

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.

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