Edward Caldwell Dawson

  • Lecturer

Ed Dawson ’01 teaches legal research and writing. Before joining Texas Law in 2020, he was an assistant and associate professor at Southern Illinois University School of Law, teaching civil rights, constitutional law, criminal procedure, federal courts, and legislation. From 2012-2014, he taught legal writing at LSU’s Paul M. Hebert Law Center. Professor Dawson practiced appellate law at Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP and Yetter Coleman LLP. He clerked for Justice Anthony Kennedy of the U.S. Supreme Court and Judge Ed Carnes of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit.