Edward Hayes Cooper is the Thomas M. Cooley Professor of Law Emeritus at the

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.Faculty Biography - Edward H. Cooper
University of Michigan Law School. He is a leading scholar of

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and

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.Sheila Pursglove
Profile in Brief: Edward H. Cooper, Civil Society
''Legal News'' (June 15, 2011). Cooper is among the most widely cited authorities in civil procedure.

Career

Cooper's hometown is

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, Michigan. Cooper received his

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in economics from

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and his

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from Harvard Law School. He was a law clerk to Judge Clifford Patrick O'Sullivan of the

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before

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in Detroit. He was admitted to practice in Michigan on January 5, 1965.Member Directory: Edward H. Cooper—P12204
, State Bar of Michigan. Cooper's first teaching job was as an adjunct professor at

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in Detroit. Following this, he was associate professor at the

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for five years before joining the Michigan Law school faculty in 1972. He was named the Thomas M. Cooley Professor of Law in 1988. His predecessor in the chair was

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. At Michigan, Cooper teaches civil procedure and

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and

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, and other courses. In the past, he also taught antitrust. Cooper is the co-author, with

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and

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, of the first, second, and third editions of ''Federal Practice & Procedure'', the leading

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on federal jurisdiction and procedure. The first version of the treatise was published in 1975. Cooper served as a member of the

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of the Judicial Conference of the United States from 1991 to 1992, and has been reporter for that committee since 1992. Cooper has been a member of the Council of the American Law Institute since 1988 and has served as adviser to the ALI Federal Judicial Code, International Jurisdiction and Judgments, and Transnational Procedure projects. Cooper is married, and he and his wife have two children and three grandchildren.

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