Research Interests
- Corporate Law & Governance
- Business Entity Law
- Securities & Financial Regulation
- Contract Law & Theory
- Antitrust & Competition Policy
- Law & Economics
- Law & Technology
- Firearms Law & The Second Amendment
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 & Acquisitions, Sales, Commercial Paper, Ethics, and Legal Information & 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 & 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 and the Second Amendment. His work has appeared in the University of Pennsylvania Journal of Business Law, Dickinson Law Review, Louisiana Law Review, Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment & 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 relationship between equity, corporate law, and private ordering, 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 & Economics, Liberty Fund, and the Federalist Society for Law & Public Policy Studies. In the Fall of 2024, Professor Edwards participated in a first-of-its-kind Law & Economics lecturing competition featuring some of the leading names in Law & Economics, winning his regional competition and advancing to the national championship tournament.
Professor Edwards has also joined amicus briefs, provided commentary to local and regional print, radio, and television outlets, and written blog posts for national organizations on corporate governance and firearms law issues.
Professor Edwards teaches or will teach Contracts, Business Associations, Mergers & Acquisitions, Securities Regulation, Firearms Law, and Legal Profession at Ole Miss Law, as well as Introduction to American Law & Legal Reasoning in the Sally McDonnell Barksdale Honors College.
Education
J.D. , Duke University (2013)
B.A. Accounting, University of Mississippi (2010)