Christoph Henkel Profile

Professor of Law

515-271-2076
christoph.henkel@drake.edu

Areas of Expertise

Contract, Corporate, Commercial, Banking Law, Fintech, Bankruptcy and Entrepreneurial Law

Education

SJD - University of Wisconsin Law School
LLM - University of Wisconsin Law School
JD - Justus-Liebig University Law School (Giessen, Germany)

Professional Experience

Drake Law School Professor since 2023
Visiting Professor of Law, Chicago-Kent College of Law
Visiting Professor of Law, University of Illinois Chicago School of Law
Professor of Law, Mississippi College School of Law (2009-2022)
Arbitrator, Directorate-General Trade, European Commission, Brussels, Belgium
Arbitrator, Financial Industry Regulatory Authority
Legal Practice 2001-2009, including Sidley Austin in Chicago

Selected Publications

• Why U.S. States Should Create Their Own Cannabis Industry Banks, 101 Washington University Law Review Online 1 (2023) (with Randall K. Johnson).
• The Play in the Joints Between Pluralism and Diversity, Diversity and Plurality in the Law: Human Rights (Laurence Burgorgue-Larsen & Krzysztof Wojtyczek ed. Springer Press) (2023).
• Set-Offs in Cross-Border Bankruptcy: A Comparative Study of the United States, the European Union, Austria, Croatia and Germany, 30 Tulane Journal of International and Comparative Law 1 (2022) (with Lidija Simunovic).
• Security Interests in Investment Securities, Chapter 26, Commercial Law and Practice Guide, Lexis/Nexis (2022).
• An Overview of the Uniform Computer Information Transaction Act, Chapter 42, Commercial Law and Practice Guide, Lexis/Nexis (2022).
• The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Insolvency Law and Practice, Research Handbook on Corporate Restructuring (Paul Omar & Jennifer L.L. Gant ed. Edward Elgar Publishing) (2021).
• Using Central Counterparties to Limit Global Financial Crisis, 88(2) University of Cincinnati Law Review 397 (2020).

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