Harry Thomas Edwards (b. 1940) served on the Harvard Law School faculty from 1976 to 1977 and 1980 to 1988. He was a Visiting Professor of Law 1975-1976; Professor of Law 1976-1977; and a Lecturer on Law 1980-1985 and 1986-1988.
Research: Appellate decision making, forensic science, judicial process and administration, legal education, racial stigmas and stereotyping, federalism, labor law and arbitration, higher education law, alternative dispute resolution.
Education: Cornell University B.S. 1962; University of Michigan Law School J.D. 1965.
Selected Scholarship / Representative Publications: “Labor Relations Law in the Public Sector: Cases and Materials” (co-author, first published 1974); “Problems, Readings, and Materials on the Lawyer as a Negotiator” (co-author, 1977); “Collective Bargaining and Labor Arbitration” (first edition with Edwards as co-author, 1979); “Higher Education and the Law” (co-author, 1979); “Higher Education and the Unholy Crusade Against Government Regulation” (1980); “Federal Courts Standards of Review” casebook (co-author, first published 2007).
Noteworthy Appointments: Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, appointed 1980, Chief Judge 1994-2001; Professor, New York University School of Law, appointed 1990; received Innocence Network Champion of Justice award from the Committee on Identifying the Needs of the Forensic Science Community, National Academy of Sciences, 2019.