Edward Beiser (March 10, 1942 in

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– September 4, 2009 in

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) was an American

political scientist Political science is the scientific study of politics. It is a social science dealing with systems of governance and power, and the analysis of political activities, political thought, political behavior, and associated constitutions and la ...

, constitutional scholar, law professor and medical ethicist who taught at

Brown University Brown University is a private research university in Providence, Rhode Island. Brown is the seventh-oldest institution of higher education in the United States, founded in 1764 as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providenc ...

from 1968 to 2003. He also served as associate dean of Brown's medical school. Beiser was widely regarded as an authority on the

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.''Providence Journal'', May 3, 1989 He was a court-appointed special master during the trial of Klaus von Bulow. Beiser was a graduate of the

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and held a Ph.D. in political science from

Princeton University Princeton University is a private research university in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and one of the ...

and a law degree from

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. He taught at

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from 1965 to 1968 prior to joining the Brown faculty.

Select publications

* ''The Rhode Island Supreme Court: A Well-Integrated System''. ''

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'', 1973. * ''Ethics and Public Policy''. Audio Cassette & VHS. The Great Courses, 1994.

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