Edward Hayes Cooper^[1] is the Thomas M. Cooley Professor of Law Emeritus at the University of Michigan Law School.^[2] He is a leading scholar of civil procedure and federal jurisdiction.^[2][3] Cooper is among the most widely cited authorities in civil procedure.^[4]

Cooper's hometown is Detroit, Michigan.^[3] Cooper received his A.B. in economics from Dartmouth College and his LL.B. from Harvard Law School.^[2][3] He was a law clerk to Judge Clifford Patrick O'Sullivan of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit before practicing law in Detroit.^[2] He was admitted to practice in Michigan on January 5, 1965.^[5]

Cooper's first teaching job was as an adjunct professor at Wayne State University in Detroit.^[3] Following this, he was associate professor at the University of Minnesota Law School for five years before joining the Michigan Law school faculty in 1972.^[2] He was named the Thomas M. Cooley Professor of Law in 1988.^[2] His predecessor in the chair was John W. Reed.^[3] At Michigan, Cooper teaches civil procedure and jurisdiction and choice of law, and other courses.^[2] In the past, he also taught antitrust.^[3]

Cooper is the co-author, with Charles Alan Wright and Arthur R. Miller, of the first, second, and third editions of Federal Practice & Procedure, the leading legal treatise on federal jurisdiction and procedure.^[2] The first version of the treatise was published in 1975.^[3]

Cooper served as a member of the Advisory Committee on Civil Rules of the Judicial Conference of the United States from 1991 to 1992, and has been reporter for that committee since 1992.^[2][3] 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.^[2][3]

Cooper is married, and he and his wife have two children and three grandchildren.^[3]