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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
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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
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Book Chapters
| “Mediation Training: Career Opportunities and Skill Formation for Other Occupations,” 20 ADR & THE LAW 69 (20th ed. 2006). |
| “Sources and Bibliography for Alternative Dispute Resolution,” in Alternative Dispute Resolution Handbook 499 (State Bar of Texas 2003). |
| Class Actions, in OXFORD COMPANION TO AMERICAN LAW (2002) |
| Sources for Alternative Dispute Resolution, in HANDBOOK OF ALTERNATIVE DISPUTE RESOLUTION (Texas State Bar, 3rd ed. 2002) |
| Rules 13 & 15, in MOORE'S FEDERAL PRACTICE , VOLUME III (1997) |
| Applications of Dispute Resolution Processes in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, in THE STRUGGLE FOR PEACE: ISRAELIS AND PALESTINIANS (E. Fernea & M. Hocking eds.) (1992) |
| "Local Court Rules on ADR" and "ADR References," in HANDBOOK OF ALTERNATIVE DISPUTE RESOLUTION, Chapter 23, Appendix B (A. Greenberg ed., State Bar of Texas 2d ed.) (1990) |
| In-Service Conscientious Objection, in SELECTIVE CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTION: ACCOMODATING CONSCIENCE AND SECURITY (M. Noone ed., Westview Press) (1989) |
| Texas Tort Claims Act (Ch. 60), in TEXAS TORTS AND REMEDIES (H. Edgar and J. Sales eds., Matthew Bender) (1987) |
| Texas Tort Claims Act (Ch. 60), in TEXAS TORTS AND REMEDIES (H. Edgar and J. Sales eds., Matthew Bender) (1987) |
| Military Law, in ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE AMERICAN JUDICIAL SYSTEM, Vol. 1(McMillan) (1987) |
| Contemporary Challenges to Traditional Limits on the Role of the Military in American Society, in Rowe & Whelan, MILITARY INTERVENTION IN DEMOCRATIC SOCIETIES (Croon Helm) (1985) |
| Responsiveness and Accountability in the Military, in PEOPLE VERSUS GOVERNMENT POWER (L. Rieselbach ed., U. of Indiana Press) (1975) |
| Domestic Law and the Military Establishment, in MODULES IN SECURITY STUDIES (A.Williams & D. Tarr eds., U. Press of Kansas) (1974) |
| Bertrand Russell and the Peace Movement: Liberal Consistency or Radical Change, in BERTRAND RUSSELL'S PHILOSOPHY (G. Nakhnikian ed., Indiana U. Press) (1974) |
| Amnesty and the Military Offender, in WHEN CAN I COME HOME? A DEBATE ON AMNESTY FOR EXILES, ANTI-WAR PRISONERS AND OTHERS (M. Polner ed., Doubleday) (1972) |
| The Civilianization of Military Law, in JUSTICE FOR SOME (B. Wasserstein & M. Green eds., Beacon Press) (1971) |
| Justice in the Military, in CONSCIENCE AND COMMAND (J. Finn ed., Random House) (1971) |
| Rights of Servicemen, in THE RIGHTS OF AMERICANS (N. Dorsen ed., Random House Pantheon) (1971) |
| Military Justice and Individual Liberty, in A. Yarmolinsky, THE MILITARY ESTABLISHMENT: ITS IMPACTS ON AMERICAN SOCIETY (A TWENTIETH CENTURY FUND STUDY) (Harper & Row) (1971) |
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