Jerry Markham

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Jerry W. Markham is a professor at the Florida International University College of Law,^[1] and a legal scholar on business organizations and securities regulation in the United States.

Education and professional activities[edit]

Markham received a B.S. from Western Kentucky University,^[1] and attended law school at the University of Kentucky College of Law,^[1] where he served as editor-in-chief of the Kentucky Law Journal, and was named to the Order of the Coif.^[1] He later received an LL.M. from the Georgetown University Law Center.^[1]

Before entering academia, Markham was secretary and counsel, Chicago Board Options Exchange, Inc.;^[1] chief counsel, Division of Enforcement, United States Commodity Futures Trading Commission;^[1] an attorney for the Securities and Exchange Commission,^[1] and a partner with the international firm of Rogers & Wells (now Clifford Chance) in Washington, D.C.^[1]

Scholarship[edit]

Markham has written and taught in the areas of corporate finance, banking, commodities trading, securities and international trade law.^[1] He is currently a professor of law at the Florida International University College of Law.^[1] Markham was previously a member of the law faculty at the University of North Carolina, where he taught for twelve years,^[1] and prior to that was an adjunct professor at the Georgetown University Law Center for ten years.^[1]

Markham authored a three-volume financial history of the United States in 2002. He has co-authored four casebooks on corporate law and banking regulation, has published a two-volume treatise and a history book on the law of commodity futures regulation,^[1] and was the principal coauthor of a two-volume treatise on securities regulation.^[1] More recently, he authored a book on the Enron and other financial scandals that followed the market downturn in 2000.

Works[edit]

Treatises[edit]

• The History of Commodity Futures Trading and Its Regulation (1987)
• A Financial History of the United States (2002; in three volumes)
• A Financial History of Modern U.S. Corporate Scandals: From Enron to Reform (2006)
• Broker Dealer Operations Under Securities and Commodities Law (1995; with Thomas Lee Hazen)
• Broker-dealer Operations and Regulation Under Securities and Commodities Laws (2002; with Thomas Lee Hazen)

Textbooks[edit]

• Commodities Regulation: Fraud, Manipulation & Other Claims (1987; Clark Boardman Callaghan)
• Mergers, Acquisitions and Other Business Combinations: Cases and Materials (2003; with Thomas Lee Hazen)
• Corporations and Other Business Enterprises: Cases and Materials (2003, 2006; with Thomas Lee Hazen)
• Regulation of Bank Financial Service Activities: Cases and Materials (2004; with Lissa Lamkin Broome)
• Corporate Finance: Cases and Materials (2004; with Thomas Lee Hazen)

References[edit]

External links[edit]

• FIU page for Jerry W. Markham