Adam Wright
Adam Wright
Assistant Professor of Law
Degrees
- J.D. Harvard Law School
- B.A. Michigan State University
Biography
Professor Adam Wright joined the faculty at Detroit Mercy Law in 2023 as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Law. In 2025, he was promoted to Assistant Professor of Law. Before joining the faculty, he served many years working for the Department of Justice as an Assistant United States Attorney in Cincinnati and San Francisco. He worked in both the civil and criminal divisions including in the National Security & Special Prosecutions Unit and the Organized Crime & Drug Enforcement Unit. His research interests include public corruption, white collar crime, and criminal procedure.
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Courses Taught
Criminal Law
Criminal Pretrial Advocacy
Criminal Procedure Adjudication
White Collar Crime -
Selected Publications
Why Didn't Anyone Go to Jail?: The Flint Water Crisis as a White-Collar Crime, 55 STETSON LAW REVIEW __ (forthcoming 2026)
Corruption as Contract: Taking Quid Pro Quo Seriously, 77 Baylor Law Review 1 (2025)
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Selected Presentations
Social Developments in White Collar Crime, Symposium on Prosecutorial Independence & White Collar Crime, Stetson Law Review, March 2025.
The Impact of Snyder and the Centrality of Quid Pro Quo, Panel on Developments in White Collar Crime, Southeastern Association of Law Schools (SEALS) Annual Meeting, July 2024
Constitution Day Panel: The Trump Indictments, University of Detroit Mercy School of Law, September 2023
United States v. Chamberlain, DOJ Domestic Terrorism Seminar, May 2016
A Guide to the Guidelines, United States Attorney’s Office, NDCA, October 2015