Edwards graduated from BYU with honors and received both a JD and PhD in jurisprudence and social policy from the University of California, Berkeley.
[2] After law school, Edwards clerked for Judge Cecil F. Poole of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.
Edwards taught in the political science department at BYU before becoming vice president for academic affairs at the Institute for Humane Studies.
Edwards has appeared on Fox News and is a frequent commentator on religion in the public square, especially the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
[4][5] In June 2019, it was announced that Edwards would leave Herbert's staff and become the director of the Wheatley Institution at BYU.