Jerry Markham

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Jerry W. Markham is a professor at Florida International University College of Law and a leading expert on how businesses are run and how U.S. securities and markets are regulated. He is widely cited for his knowledge of financial and commodities market regulation, and his three-volume book, A Financial History of the United States, is well respected.

He earned a B.S. from Western Kentucky University and studied law at the University of Kentucky College of Law, where he was editor-in-chief of the Kentucky Law Journal and a member of the Order of the Coif. He also earned an LL.M. from Georgetown University Law Center.

Before joining academia, Markham held several roles: secretary and counsel of the Chicago Board Options Exchange, chief counsel of the Enforcement Division at the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, an attorney for the Securities and Exchange Commission, and a partner at Rogers & Wells (now Clifford Chance) in Washington, D.C. He has written and taught in corporate finance, banking, commodities trading, securities, and international trade law.

He has taught at FIU and previously spent twelve years on the University of North Carolina law faculty and ten years as an adjunct professor at Georgetown University Law Center. His three-volume financial history was named a Choice Outstanding Academic Title in 2002. He has co-authored four casebooks on corporate law and banking regulation, published a two-volume treatise and a history of commodity futures regulation, and was the principal coauthor of a two-volume treatise on securities regulation. He also wrote a book on Enron and other financial scandals after the market downturn in 2000.

Markham has lectured internationally, including at Université Jean Moulin in Lyon, and in Sydney, Warsaw, Beijing, Mexico City, Montevideo, Fukuoka, and Bangkok.