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, contract law and theory, corporate governance, securities and financial regulation, financial technology, antitrust, law and economics, and law and technology. His prior work has appeared in the 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 evaluation of vertical restrictions on the distribution of goods sold on Amazon and an analysis of the relationship between the law and economics of contracting and arbitration of disputes in limited liability companies. He regularly presents works-in-progress and conference papers at conferences such as the Association for American Law Schools Annual Meeting, the Southeast Association of Law Schools Conference, and the National Business Law Scholars’ Conference.
Professor Edwards teaches or will teach Contracts, Business Associations, and Mergers & Acquisitions at Ole Miss Law, as well as Introduction to American Law & Legal Reasoning in the Sally McDonnell Barksdale Honors College.
