Edward F. Sherman

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.

Edward F. Sherman
Nationality United States
CitizenshipUSA
Alma materGeorgetown University
University of Texas at El Paso
Harvard Law School
Awards2004 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
FieldsLaw
InstitutionsTulane University Law School
InfluencedAlternative Dispute Resolution, Complex Class Actions

Education

Sherman has five degrees. He earned his 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
  • Clients should generally attend ADR proceedings.[4]
  • There should be an exception to the mediator-confidentiality privilege when a court needs to obtain information relevant to determining compliance with a court order to participate in ADR in good faith.[5]

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.

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
  • "The MDL Model for Resolving Complex Litigation If a Class Action Is Not Possible," 82 TUL. L. REV. ___ (2008).
  • “Consumer Class Actions: Decline and Fall?,” ABA JOURNAL 51 (June 2007).
  • “Evolving Military Justice,” 67 Journal of Military History 999 (July 2003).
  • The Evolution of American Civil Trial Process Towards Greater Congruence with Continental Trial Practice, 7 TUL. J. INT'L & COMP. L. 125 (1999).
  • Introduction: A Tribute to Professor Athanassios Yiannopoulos, 73 TUL. L. REV. 1017 (1999).
  • From “Loser Pays” to Modified Offer of Judgment Rules: Reconciling Incentives to Settle with Access to Justice, 76 TEX. L. REV. 1863 (1998).
  • "Good Faith" Participation in Mediation: Aspirational, Not Mandatory, 4 DISP. RES. MAG. 14 (1997).
  • Confidentiality in ADR Proceedings: Policy Issues Arising from the Texas Experience, 38 S. TEX. L. REV. 541 (1997).
  • A Process Model and Agenda for Civil Justice Reforms in the States, 46 STAN. L. REV. 1553 (1994).
  • Managing Complex Litigation: Procedures and Strategies for Lawyers and Courts, 57 TEX. B.J. 149 (1994).
  • Court-Mandated Alternative Dispute Resolution: What Form of Participation Should Be Required?, 46 S.M.U. L. REV. 2079 (1993).
  • The Immigration Laws and the “Right to Hear” Protected by Academic Freedom, 66 TEX. L. REV. 1547 (1988).
  • Restructuring the Trial Process in the Age of Complex Litigation, 63 TEX. L. REV. 721 (1984).
  • Traditional and Developing Concepts of Governmental Liability, INST. ON PUBLIC LAW LIABILITY OF PUBLIC OFFICIALS AND EMPLOYEES (State Bar of Texas, 1981).
  • The Development, Discovery, and Use of Computer Support Systems in Achieving Efficiency in Litigation, 79 COLUM. L. REV. 267 (1979).
  • A Special Kind of Justice, 84 YALE L.J. 373 (1974).
  • Military Justice Without Military Control, 82 YALE L.J. 1398 (1973).
  • Congressional Proposals for Reform of Military Law, 10 AM. CRIM. L. REV. 25 (1971).
  • The Right to Representation by Out-of-State Attorneys in Civil Rights Cases, 4 HARV. C.R.-C.L. L. REV. 65 (1968).
  • The Use of Public Opinion Polls in Continuance and Venue Hearings, 50 A.B.A. J. 357 (1964).

See also

References
  1. Alan Rau Scott, et al., Processes of Dispute Resolution: The Role of Lawyers, 4th Ed., Foundation Press, 2006, page i.
  3. "Tulane University Law School - Faculty". Law.tulane.edu. Retrieved 2017-08-19.
  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
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