G. Edward White

White is a member of the American Law Institute, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Society of American Historians. At Virginia Law, he teaches courses in constitutional law, torts, and legal history. White was once a Guggenheim Fellow and twice a senior fellow of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Throughout his career, White has published 18 books, and won several awards for these publications, including a final listing for the Pulitzer Prize for History. White has held visiting appointments at Harvard Law School, William & Mary Law School, the London School of Economics, and elsewhere. Between 2016 and 2020, White was the fourth most cited scholar in the United States in the field of legal history.

White was born to Dr. George L. White, Jr. and his wife. In December 1966, White married Susan Valre Davis, now a family attorney in Charlottesville, Virginia. Davis White is the daughter of John F. Davis, the former Clerk of the Supreme Court of the United States. White is a lifelong fan of and participant in sports and in 1996, he published a book on the history of baseball, Creating the National Pastime: Baseball Transforms Itself, 1903-1953.

White finished high school at Philips Academy. He then graduated with a bachelor of arts degree magna cum laude from Amherst College in 1963. He went on to study at Yale University, where he obtained a master of arts in 1964 and doctor of philosophy in 1967, both in history. In 1970, White graduated from Harvard Law School with a Juris Doctor. White then clerked for Earl Warren, the then-Chief Justice of the United States, in the 1971 term. White joined the faculty at the University of Virginia School of Law in 1972. At Virginia Law, he became a University Professor in 1993, then a Distinguished Professor in 2003.

George Edward White (born March 19, 1941) is an American legal historian, tort law scholar, and the David and Mary Harrison Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Virginia School of Law.