Edward Beiser (March 10, 1942 in New York City – September 4, 2009 in Warwick, Rhode Island) was an American political scientist, constitutional scholar, law professor and medical ethicist who taught at Brown University from 1968 to 2003. He also served as associate dean of Brown's medical school. Beiser was widely regarded as an authority on the Rhode Island Supreme Court. He was a court-appointed special master during the trial of Klaus von Bulow.