Research Interests
- Law
- Economics
- Public policy involving business entities
- Competition and Antitrust Law in tech
- Regulation of financial and commercial technology
- Economic analysis of firearms law and regulation
Biography
Professor Martin Edwards joined the Ole Miss Law faculty in 2023 after two years each on the faculties at Belmont University College of Law and Mississippi College School of Law, where he taught Contracts, Business Associations, Mergers and Acquisitions, Sales, Commercial Paper, Ethics, and Legal Information and Communication. He has also taught Legal Research and Writing as a Forrester Fellow at Tulane University School of Law. Before entering law teaching, he clerked for the Hon. Leslie H. Southwick of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, served as a Special Assistant Attorney General at the Mississippi Attorney General's Office, and practiced law at Phelps Dunbar, LLP. He graduated from Duke Law School, where he was the managing editor of Law and Contemporary Problems and a member of the Moot Court Board, and he holds a Bachelor's of Accountancy from The University of Mississippi.
Professor Edwards's research interests include business entity law, corporate governance, contract law and theory, securities and financial regulation, financial technology, antitrust, law and economics, law and technology, and firearms law. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in the University of Pennsylvania Journal of Business Law, Dickinson Law Review, Louisiana Law Review, Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment and Technology Law, St. John's Law Review, Colorado Law Review, Penn State Law Review, and Administrative Law Review. His current works in progress include a fresh look at the economic underpinnings of Delaware corporate law, an institutional economics analysis of the federal firearms licensing system, and a public choice analysis of incentives toward entrepreneurship or bureaucracy inside corporations. He regularly presents works-in-progress and conference papers at conferences such as the Southeast Association of Law Schools Conference, Association for American Law Schools Annual Meeting, the National Business Law Scholars’ Conference, Public Choice Society Annual Meeting, and the Firearms Law Works-in-Progress Conference, and participates in discussion and reading groups sponsored by the International Center for Law and Economics, Liberty Fund, and the Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies. In the fall of 2024, Professor Edwards participated in a first-of-its-kind Law and Economics lecturing competition featuring some of the leading names in Law and Economics, winning his regional competition and advancing to the national championship tournament. Professor Edwards teaches Contracts, Business Associations, Mergers and Acquisitions, Securities Regulation, and Legal Profession at Ole Miss Law, as well as Introduction to American Law and Legal Reasoning in the Sally McDonnell Barksdale Honors College.
Education
B.A. Accounting, The University of Mississippi (2010)
J.D. Law, Duke University (2013)