The LEC’s 50th Anniversary Celebration Manne Madness Tournament consisted of four double-elimination regional tournaments, each featuring lectures from eight distinct professors, for a total of thirty-two tournament competitors. The top two professors from each region advanced to the Elite Eight National Championship in Miami.
The Nashville Regional Tournament took place from Sunday, November 10 to Friday, November 15, 2024 at the Nashville Marriott at Vanderbilt University. The eight different competitors from seven different schools gave a combined twenty-six lectures.
Professors Martin Edwards (University of Mississippi School of Law) and Kenneth Elzinga (University of Virginia) advanced to December’s championship double-elimination final round in Miami.
First Place
Martin Edwards
Assistant Professor of Law, University of Mississippi School of Law
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 teaching, Professor Edwards clerked for the Hon. Leslie H. Southwick of the US 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.
Professor Edwards’s research interests include business entity law, corporate governance, contract law and theory, securities and financial regulation, financial technology, antitrust, law and economics, law and technology, and firearms law. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in the Dickinson Law Review, Louisiana Law Review, Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment & Technology Law, St. John’s Law Review, Colorado Law Review, Penn State Law Review, and Administrative Law Review.
Runner-Up
Kenneth G. Elzinga
Robert C. Taylor Professor of Economics, University of Virginia
Kenneth G. Elzinga is the Robert C. Taylor Professor of Economics at the University of Virginia. He was the first recipient of the Cavaliers’ Distinguished Teaching Professorship at the University, a recipient of the Alumni Association’s Distinguished Professor Award, the Commonwealth of Virginia’s Outstanding Faculty Award, as well as awards in education from the Kenan and Templeton foundations. In 1992, he was given the Thomas Jefferson Award, the highest honor the University of Virginia accords its faculty. Each fall, Professor Elzinga’s introductory economics course attracts over one thousand students and is the largest class offered at the University of Virginia. His major research interest is antitrust economics, especially pricing strategy and market definition. He has testified in several precedent-setting antitrust cases, and was the economic expert for the prevailing parties in three Supreme Court cases: Matsushita, Brooke Group, and Leegin.
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