Professor Edward F. Sherman Tulane University School of Law, New Orleans, LA EDWARD F. SHERMAN is a professor of law and former dean of Tulane Law School. Before coming to Tulane in 1996, he taught for 19 years at the University of Texas School of Law where he was the Edward Clark Centennial Professor of Law. A graduate of Georgetown University (A.B., 1959) and Harvard Law School (J.D., 1962; S.J.D., 1981), he clerked for a federal judge, practiced law, served in the U.S. Army Judge Advocate General’s Corps for five years before entering teaching. He is co-author of widely-used casebooks on Civil Procedure, Complex Litigation, and Alternative Dispute Resolution and has published a large number of articles in these fields. He has served as counsel, consultant, or expert witness in a large number of class actions and complex cases. Professor Sherman has been Reporter for ABA Task Forces on Asbestos (2003-2005), Class action Legislation (2001-2003) (chair & reporter), and Offer of Judgment Rule (1995) and for the ABA Summit on Civil Justice System Improvements (1993). He is a member fo the American Law institute, serving on the Members Consultative Group for projects on complex litigation, transnational civil procedure, and law of aggregate litigation. He has been on the board of the Louisiana State Bar and a member of the Louisiana Law Institute, Louisiana Bar Foundation, and the Maritime Law Association. He was involved in 2003-04 in the U.S. AID “Stars Project” for drafting a new Code of Civil Procedure for the Republic of Vietnam. He was awarded the American Bar Association’s 2004 Robert B. McKay Law Professor Award, given annually by the ABA Tort Trial and Insurance Practice Section “in recognition of a law professor’s commitment to the advancement of justice, scholarship and the legal profession, demonstrated through outstanding contributions to the fields of tort, trial, and insurance law.”