Jerry W. Markham is a professor at the

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Education and professional activities

Markham received a B.S. from

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, and attended law school at the

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, where he served as

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'', and was named to the

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. He later received an LL.M. from the

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

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Scholarship

Markham has written and taught in the areas of corporate finance,

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, securities and

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law. He is currently a professor of law at the

. Markham was previously a member of the law faculty at the

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, where he taught for twelve years, and prior to that was an adjunct professor at the

for ten years. Markham authored a three-volume financial history of the United States in 2002. He has co-authored four

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s on corporate law and banking regulation, has published a two-volume treatise and a history book on the law of commodity futures regulation, and was the principal coauthor of a two-volume treatise on securities regulation. More recently, he authored a book on the Enron and other financial scandals that followed the market downturn in 2000.

Works

Treatises

*''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

*''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

External links

FIU page for Jerry W. Markham
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