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. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in the 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 an analysis of Delaware corporate cases premised upon an understudied distinction in the economic functions of corporate managers, an economic analysis of historical restrictions on the public carry of firearms, and a public choice economics analysis of environmental, social, and governance activity within 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.
Professor Edwards teaches Contracts, Business Associations, Mergers & Acquisitions, and Legal Profession at Ole Miss Law, as well as Introduction to American Law & Legal Reasoning in the Sally McDonnell Barksdale Honors College.
