Eric Martin is an Emory Law student and a Fellow of the Center for International and Comparative Law and the AI and the Future of Work Program. He founded Conflicts & Capital, Emory’s inaugural column on commercial private international law. A Staff Editor of the Emory Law Journal, he writes about foreign investment screening in cross-border acquisitions and is co-authoring an article with Professor Ifeoma Ajunwa on AI and M&A risk.

Before law school, Martin helped launch J.P. Morgan’s M&A Transaction Execution Group as one of its three inaugural members. He previously worked at Cerberus Capital Management and Darktrace, where he was the sole paralegal during Thoma Bravo’s take-private acquisition. He is a Student Law Clerk at the New York Supreme Court, Commercial Division, and a Judicial Extern at the Georgia State-wide Business Court.

The ABA M&A Committee featured his article on AI due diligence in the Fall 2026 Deal Points “What’s New & Trending” section, and he presented it as a featured speaker. He co-authored the ABA’s formal comment on Japan’s revised merger guidelines and a board-leadership essay in Directors & Boards’ fiftieth-anniversary issue. He comments on the ABA’s Model Short Form Asset Purchase Agreement, contributes to its European Private Target M&A Deal Points Study, and serves as Editor of the United Nations and International Organizations Committee’s Year in Review.