Edward F. Sherman was an American legal scholar who served as the 20th dean of the Tulane University Law School from 1996 to 2001.

After his tenure as dean, he continued to teach at the law school until his retirement in 2015.

His scholarship focused on Civil Procedure and Alternative Dispute Resolution.

Working with USAID he helped Vietnam write a new code of civil procedure.

[2] Sherman believed that clients should generally attend ADR proceedings,[3] and that there should be an exception to the mediator-confidentiality privilege when a court needs to obtain information relevant to determining compliance with a court order to participate in ADR in good faith.