Peter Henning

Professor of Law
Peter Henning

Professor Peter Henning joined the faculty of Wayne State University in 1994 as an associate professor and was promoted to professor of law in 2002. He graduated magna cum laude in 1985 from Georgetown University Law Center, where he served as a notes and comments editor on the Georgetown Law Journal. After graduation, he taught in the College of Business Administration at Loyola Marymount University and then clerked for Chief Judge Murray M. Schwartz of the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware. After clerking, Professor Henning was until 1991 a senior attorney in the Division of Enforcement at the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission, where he worked on cases involving insider trading, penny stock fraud, market manipulation and accounting irregularities. He then moved to the Criminal Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, where he worked in the Fraud Section on the investigation and prosecution of bank fraud. During this time he also published articles in the Kansas Law Review, St. Louis University Law Journal and American Criminal Law Review.

Professor Henning teaches courses in Corporations, White Collar Crime, Professional Responsibility & the Legal Profession, Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, Criminal Pretrial Advocacy and Securities Regulation. He taught previously at the high school and university undergraduate levels. In 2013, he was a Fulbright Scholar teaching at the University of Zagreb in Croatia, and in 2016 was a Fulbright Specialist at the Judges Academy in Taipei, Taiwan. Professor Henning has received a number of teaching awards, including the President's Award for Excellence in Teaching, whose recipients are selected from among the entire Wayne State University faculty, and the Donald H. Gordon Award for Excellence in Teaching, which is presented by the alumni of the Law School.

Professor Henning's scholarship focuses primarily on white collar crime, constitutional criminal procedure, insider trading, and attorney ethics. Recent articles have been published in Wayne Law Review, Washington University Journal of Law & Public Policy, and the Business Lawyer. He is the co-author of three casebooks on white collar crime, criminal law and criminal pretrial advocacy, along with student texts on criminal law, criminal procedure and white collar crime. He is the author of The Prosecution and Defense of Public Corruption: The Law and Legal Strategies, published by LexisNexis, which is the leading treatise in the field. He is a co-author of Securities Crimes (2d ed.) and is the author of three volumes of Federal Practice and Procedure: Criminal treatise, originally written by the late Professor Charles Alan Wright. These treatises are frequently cited reference works.

Professor Henning is an elected member of the American Law Institute, and chair of the Criminal Law and Procedure Drafting Committee for the National Conference of Bar Examiners that is responsible for drafting and reviewing questions for the multi-state bar exam. He has been quoted in a number of media outlets.

Education:
J.D., Georgetown University Law Center
M.A., Fordham University
B.A., Loyola Marymount University

Bloomberg BNA Tax Management Portfolios:
5515 T.M., Responding to Department of Justice Investigations (co-author)