He teaches courses in comparative law, contracts, Islamic Law and Religion, Islamic Law Reform, International Commercial Arbitration, Law and the Visual Arts, and Modern Egyptian Legal History. Edward Stein is Vice Dean, Professor of Law, and Director of the program in Family Law, Policy, and Bioethics at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law. He is the author of numerous articles and books on legal, philosophical, and scientific topics, including The Mismeasure of Desire: The Science, Theory and Ethics of Sexual Orientation and Without Good Reason: The Rationality Debate in Philosophy and Cognitive Science. His current research focuses on issues at the intersection of family law and sexual orientation, gender and the law.