The following Wayne State University faculty members are available to offer expert opinion, tips and analysis in relation to the City of Detroit's historic bankruptcy filing:

Laura Bartell is a professor of law who has taught courses on advanced topics, including bankruptcy, and is a member of the American Law Institute and the American Bankruptcy Institute.
http://law.wayne.edu/profile/laura.bartell/

Jocelyn Benson is the interim dean of Wayne State Law School and associate director of the Damon J. Keith Center for Civil Rights. Her areas of expertise include election law, education law, race and the law, and civil procedure.
http://law.wayne.edu/profile/jocelyn.benson/

Robin Boyle is professor and chair of urban studies and planning. His areas of expertise include economic development, schools and community planning, and comparative urban policy.
http://clasweb.clas.wayne.edu/r-boyle

Sheila Cockrel is a former Detroit City Council member and part-time faculty member in the Irvin D. Reid Honors College. She has taught courses on Detroit political history (1967 -today) and Detroit city government.
http://media.wayne.edu/2010/01/07/irvin-d-reid-honors-college-welcomes-former

Peter Henning is a professor of law and author of The Prosecution and Defense of Public Corruption: The Law & Legal Strategies. Previously, he worked for the Securities and Exchange Commission's enforcement division and then as a prosecutor with the U.S. Justice Department.
http://law.wayne.edu/profile/peter.henning2/

Marick Masters is a professor of business, adjunct professor of political science and the director of Labor@Wayne. His expertise is in negotiations, labor-management cooperation, public-sector labor-management relations, union finances and unions in politics.
http://www.clas.wayne.edu/faculty/Masters

John Mogk is a professor of law who teaches courses in property, state and local government law, energy, land use planning, and urban development.
http://law.wayne.edu/profile/john.mogk/

Donyale Padgett is an assistant professor of diversity, culture and communication whose primary research focuses on the social dynamics that influence contemporary crisis discourse.
http://comm.wayne.edu/profile.php?id=139

Lyke Thompson is the director of the Center for Urban Studies. His research focuses on program evaluation and policy analysis, with recent concentration on community development. He has published in the areas of urban labor markets, citizen attitudes about service delivery and welfare reform.
http://www.cus.wayne.edu/about/DirProg.htm

William Volz is a professor of accounting whose teaching interests include business law, ethics, business and society, and taxation.
http://business.wayne.edu/faculty/profile.php?id=1010

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