M. Todd Henderson

  • Title: Michael J. Marks Professor of Law
  • Education: JD, University of Chicago; BSE, Princeton University
  • Joined UChicago faculty: 2004
  • toddh@uchicago.edu

M. Todd Henderson

M. Todd Henderson’s research interests include corporations, securities regulation, and law and economics. He has taught classes ranging from banking regulation to torts to American Indian law.

Henderson received an engineering degree cum laude from Princeton University, and he worked for years designing and building dams in California before matriculating at the Law School. While at the Law School, he was an editor of the Law Review and captained the Law School's all-University champion intramural football team. Henderson graduated magna cum laude in 1998 and was elected to the Order of the Coif. Following law school, he served as clerk to the Hon. Dennis Jacobs of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. He then practiced appellate litigation at Kirkland & Ellis in Washington, D.C., and was an engagement manager at McKinsey & Company in Boston, where he specialized in counseling telecommunications and high-tech clients on business and regulatory strategy.

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Henderson Stories

In polarized times, when should corporations speak out?

Five UChicago Law faculty examine the First Amendment protections, political pressures and strategic calculus behind corporate free expression

Commentary: The Mick Mulvaney Proposal That Could Change the CFPB for the Better

Prof. M. Todd Henderson, Lect. Brian Feinstein discuss proposal for Consumer Financial Protection Bureau


How to fix securities class actions? Ask shareholders

Prof. M. Todd Henderson argues shareholders should have more control to prevent frivolous securities fraud lawsuits