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.
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]
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.