Edith Beerdsen’s research focuses on the ways in which civil litigants gather, exchange, and present evidence, how institutional structures and rules shape these processes, and how they interact with norm-based practices that develop over time among legal advocates and the judiciary. She teaches Civil Procedure, Evidence, and Scientific & Statistical Evidence. Her work has been published (or is forthcoming) in the Cornell Law Review, Georgia Law Review, North Carolina Law Review, and numerous peer-reviewed scientific journals.
Professor Beerdsen began her legal career as a litigator at Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP in New York City, where for eight years she represented individuals, corporations, and non-profit organizations in a wide variety of civil actions, with a particular focus on cases involving scientific and statistical evidence. Prior to law school, Professor Beerdsen was a computational chemist and used computer simulations and statistical models to study molecular movement. From 2019 to 2022, she was an Acting Assistant Professor of Lawyering at NYU School of Law.