HARRY T.
EDWARDS
Judge Edwards received a B.S. degree from Cornell University in 1962 and a J.D.
degree from the University of Michigan Law School in
1965. He graduated from law school with
distinction and was a member of the Michigan Law Review and the Order of the
Coif. He was appointed to the United
States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit by President
Carter in 1980. He served as Chief Judge
from September 15, 1994 until July 16, 2001, and he took Senior
status on November 3, 2005. Before
joining the bench, Judge Edwards was a tenured Professor of Law at the
University of Michigan Law School (1970-75 and
1977-80) and at Harvard Law School (1975-77). He was also a member of the faculty at the
Institute for Educational Management at Harvard University (1976-82). He practiced law in Chicago with Seyfarth, Shaw, Fairweather &
Geraldson from 1965 to 1970.
He is currently a Professor of Law at the NYU School of Law, where he has
taught since 1990. He is a member of the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences; the Committee on Science, Technology,
and Law at the National Academy of Sciences;
the American Law Institute; the
Board of Directors, Institute for Judicial Administration, NYU School of Law; and a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation. He has served as Co-Chair of the Committee on
Identifying the Needs of the Forensic Science Community, National Academy of
Sciences. See The
National Academy of Sciences Report on Forensic Sciences: What it Means for the Bench and Bar, 51 Jurimetrics (2010). He has also served as Chairman of the
Board of Directors of Amtrak;
the Executive Committee of the Order of the Coif; a member of the Executive Committee of the
Association of American Law Schools; and
a member and Vice President of the National Academy of Arbitrators.
Judge Edwards is the co-author of five books, the most recent of which is Federal Standards of Review (3d ed. 2018)(with Linda A. Elliott), which has received outstanding reviews. He has also published scores of articles. His
article on The Growing Disjunction Between
Legal Education and the Legal Profession, 91 Mich. L. Rev.
401 (1992), has been recognized as “one of the most-cited law
review articles of all time.” Shapiro
& Pearse, The
Most-Cited Law Review Articles of All Time, 110 Mich. L. Rev. 1483, 1492, 1493, 1501 (2012). Two of his articles, The Effects of Collegiality on Judicial Decision Making, 151 U. Pa. L.
Rev.
1639 (2003)