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Edward F. Sherman

W.R. Irby Chair in Law

AB, 1959, Georgetown University; MA, 1962, MA, 1967, University of Texas at El Paso; LLB, 1962, SJD, 1981, Harvard University

E-mail:  esherman@tulane.edu
Telephone:  504.865.5979
Office:  Weinmann Hall, Room 216-G


Biography:

Edward Sherman served as Dean of Tulane Law School from July 1996 through June 2001, after 19 years on the faculty of the University of Texas School of Law where he was the Edward Clark Centennial Professor of Law. After law school, he clerked for a federal judge and practiced in a Texas law firm. He has taught at Harvard Law School (Teaching Fellow, 1967-69), Indiana University School of Law (1969-77), Trinity College, Dublin (1973-74), Stanford Law School (summer 1977), University of London (1989), Chuo University School of Law, Tokyo (1995), and University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia (2002). Professor Sherman is an expert on civil procedure, complex litigation, and dispute resolution and is co-author of widely-used casebooks and treatises on those subjects. He has been General Counsel of the American Association of University Professors and Reporter for American Bar Association projects. Professor Sherman has been active as an arbitrator and mediator and is a member of the American Law Institute and the Louisiana State Law Institute. He worked on a U.S.A.I.D. project writing a new Civil Procedure Code for Vietnam, and was chair & reporter for the ABA Task Force on Class Action Legislation (2001-2003) and Asbestos (2003-2005).   In 2004, he received the ABA's Robert B. McKay Award for the law professor who had contributed most to the advancement of justice, scholarship and the legal profession. He is currently Reporter for the ABA Task Force on Disaster Insurance Coverage.
 

Courses:
Spring 2013 - Alternative Dispute Resolution; Complex Litigation Seminar
Other courses - Military Law; Civil Procedure II; Jurisprudence in Literature Seminar; Complex Litigation



 
Articles

Civil Procedure: A Modern Approach (with Marcus, Redish, & Pfander)(West Pub. Co. 6th ed. 2012).

“Judicial Supervision of Attorney Fees in Aggregate Litigation: The American Vioxx Experience as Example for Other Countries,” in Common Law, Civil Law, and the Future of the Categories, eds. Oscar Chase & Janet Walker (2d ed. 2012)

“Access of Transnational Litigation to American Courts: Rethinking the Adequacy of Alternative Forum and Interests in Global Efficiency,” in Beyond Territoriality: Transnational Legal Authority in an Age of Globalism, eds. Gunther Handl, Joachim Zekoll & Peer Zumbansen (Brill, 2012).

“Handling ‘Mass Harms’ Litigation Through Consolidation,” XLVI Revue de Droit Compare 51 (The Institute of Comparative Law in Japan)(2012)

“Compensating Victims of Mass Disasters Through the Court System: Procedural Challenges and Innovations,” Proceedings of the International Conference of the International Association of Procedure, Moscow, Russia, Sept. 17-21, 2012.

“Report to the National Institute for Military Justice as Official Observer at Pre-trial Proceedings of Defendant Kalid Sheik Mohammed,” U.S. Military Commission, Guantanamo, Aug. 20-23, 2012.

"The MDL Model for Resolving Complex Litigation If a Class Action Is Not Possible," 82 TUL. L. REV. 2205 (2008)
 “Consumer Class Actions: Decline and Fall?,” ABA JOURNAL 51 (June 2007)
“Dean Pound’s Dissatisfaction with the ‘Sporting Theory of Justice’: Where Are We a Hundred Years Later?,” 48 SO. TEX. L. REV. 983 (2007)
Class Action Fairness Act and the Federalization of Class Actions,” 259 Federal Rules Decisions 504 (2007).
“Transnational Perspectives Regarding the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure,” 57 Journal of Legal Education --- (2007).
“Class Actions After the Class Action Fairness Act of 2005,” 80 Tulane L. Rev. 1593 (2006).
“Segmenting Aggregate Litigation: Initiatives and Impediments for Reshaping the Trial Process,” 25 Review of Litigation 691 (2006)
“Introduction to the Symposium on Complex Litigation: Plagued by Concerns over Federalism, Jurisdiction and Fairness,” 37 Akron L. Rev. 589 (2004).
“American Class Actions: Significant Features and Developing Alternatives in Foreign Legal Systems,” 215 Federal Rules Decisions 130 (2003).
“Evolving Military Justice,” 67 Journal of Mlitary History 999 (July 2003).
“Courting Controversy: Class Action Practice in the United States,” 2 Legal Week Global (UK) 22 (April 2003).
Emerging Mechanisms for Aggregation and Group Litigation in Foreign Legal Systems: Variations and Alternatives to Class Actions (8th Annual Clifford Symposium on Tort Law and Social Policy, April 19, 2002),__ DEPAUL L. J. __ (forthcoming 2002)
Who, Where and How Should the Guantanamo Detainees Be Tried?, NEW ORLEANS TIMES PICAYUNE, March 4, 2002
Military Commissions Aren't the Only Option, NEW ORLEANS TIMES PICAYUNE, December 3, 2001
Amendments to Rule 11 Have Cut Number of Sanction Motions (interview), 26 ABA LITIGATION NEWS 8 (2001)
Class Action Practice in the Gulf South, 74 TUL. L. REV. 1603 (2000)
Implications for the Future of Legal Education in Response to NAFTA and Growing Global Trade Relations, 47 LA. B. J. 391 (2000)
Response to Professionalism, 47 LA. B. J. 324 (2000)
Professionalism and Law Schools, 47 LA. B.J. 324 (1999)
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)
Complex Litigation: Aggregating Related Cases for Unitary Disposition, 30 COMP. L. REV. 57 (1996)
The Impact on Litigation Strategy of Integrating Alternative Dispute Resolution into the Pretrial Process, 15 REV. LITIG. 503; reprinted in 168 F.R.D. 75 (1996)
Incorporating Alternative Dispute Resolution into the Litigation Process: The Present and the Future-An Introduction to the Symposium, 15 REV. LITIG. 451 (1996)
Antisuit Injunction and Notice of Intervention and Preclusion: Complementary Devices to Prevent Duplicative Litigation, 1995 B.Y.U. L. REV. (1995)

Standards of Professional Conduct in Alternative Dispute Resolution, 1995 J. DISP. RESOL. 95

Tradition and Innovation in International Arbitration Procedure (with Rau), 30 TEX. INT'L L.J. 89 (1995)
A Process Model and Agenda for Civil Justice Reforms in the States, 46 STAN. L. REV. 1553 (1994)
Managing Complex Litigation: Proceedures 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)
Judge Jerre Wiliams: A Worthy Academic Career, 72 TEX. L. REV. ix (1993)
Aggregate Disposition of Related Cases: The Policy Issues, 10 REV. LITIG. 231 (1991)
A Social Psychology of Citizens- Objections to Authority: A Review of Crimes of Obedience, 17 AM. J. CRIM. L. 287 (1990)
The Immigration Laws and the “Right to Hear” Protected by Academic Freedom, 66 TEX. L. REV. 1547 (1988)
Reshaping the Lawyer's Skills for Court-Supervised Alternative Dispute Resolution, 51 TEX. B.J. 47 (1988)
The Role of Religion in School Curriculum and Textbooks, 74 ACADEME 17 (1988)
Prisoners' Rights (Fifth Circuit Survey), 19 TEX. TECH L. REV. 797 (1988)
Prisoners' Rights (Fifth Circuit Survey), 18 TEX. TECH L. REV. 655 (1987)
Class Actions and Duplicative Litigation, 62 IND. L.J. 507 (1987)
Relationship Between Issues and Instructions in Texas Special Issues Practice, INST. ON JURY SUBMISSION (State Bar of Texas 1985)
Implementing the New Preference for Broad Issues in Texas Special Issues Practice, 4 ADVOCATE 2 (1985)
Restructuring the Trial Process in the Age of Complex Litigation, 63 TEX. L. REV. 721 (1984)
The Role of the Judge in Discovery, 3 REV. LITIG. 89 (1982)
Federal Court Discovery in the 80's - Making the Rules Work, 2 REV. LITIG. 9 (1981); reprinted in 95 F.R.D. 245 (1982)
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)
Legal Inadequacies and Doctrinal Restraints in Controlling the Military, 49 IND. L.J. 538 (1974)
Military Justice Without Military Control, 82 YALE L.J. 1398 (1973)
The Military Courts and Servicemen's First Amendment Rights, 22 HASTINGS L.J. 325 (1971)
Congressional Proposals for Reform of Military Law, 10 AM. CRIM. L. REV. 25 (1971)
The Civilianization of Military Law, 22 ME. L. REV. 3 (1970)
Judicial Review of Military Determinations and the Exhaustion of Remedies Requirement, 55 VA. L. REV. 483; reprinted in 48 MIL. L. REV. 91 (1970) (1969)
The Right to Representation by Out-of-State Attorneys in Civil Rights Cases, 4 HARV. C.R.-C.L. L. REV. 65 (1968)
The Right to Competent Counsel in Special Courts Martial, 54 A.B.A. J. 866 (1968)
The Use of Public Opinion Polls in Continuance and Venue Hearings, 50 A.B.A. J. 357 (1964)

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