Professor

Edward

K.

Cheng

Ed Cheng is the Hess Professor of Law at Vanderbilt Law School.  His scholarship focuses on evidence, the interaction between law and statistics, and remedies.  He is co-author of the multivolume treatise Modern Scientific Evidence (with Faigman, Murphy, Sanders, and Slobogin), and his scholarship has appeared in the Stanford Law Review, Yale Law Journal, Columbia Law Review, and Journal of Legal Studies among other places.  He teaches Evidence and Torts at Vanderbilt, where he is a nine-time winner of the Hall-Hartman Outstanding Professor Award and was elected the Commencement Speaker for the classes of 2013, 2017, and 2022.  He is also the host of Excited Utterance, a podcast on scholarship in evidence and proof (excitedutterance.com), is a former chair of the Section on Evidence of the Association of American Law Schools, and helps organize the annual Evidence Summer Workshop.

Professor Cheng holds a J.D. from Harvard Law School and a Ph.D. in Statistics from Columbia University, and clerked for Judge Stephen F. Williams of the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.  He has taught as a visiting professor at Harvard Law School and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.