Gary Maveal
Gary Maveal
Emeritus Professor of Law
Degrees
- J.D. University of Detroit '81
- B.A. Wayne State University '77
Biography
Prof. Maveal taught Civil Procedure, Evidence, and Remedies (along with other courses) for thirty years. From 1990-2018, he served as Administrator and ex officio Master of the Bench in the Law School’s American Inn of Court Program. He also worked in several administrative roles during his career, including serving as Associate Dean for Academic Affairs from 2004-2010. In 2018, he received the James T. Barnes, Sr. Memorial Faculty Scholar Award and was also conferred the title of Professor Emeritus.
Since his retirement from teaching, Prof. Maveal has been researching the history of Michigan's American Rule on attorney fees. His just-completed (March 2024) article traces the origin and application of three novel statutes from the Territorial Era and first years of statehood which taxed attorney fees in all civil cases. None of these acts have ever been cited in Michigan decisions or our legal literature. The paper will be published in the Michigan Historical Review in 2025.
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Courses Taught
Civil Procedure (1150)
Evidence (2220)
Remedies (3670)
American Inns of Court (3990) -
Selected Publications
Discovering Michigan's American Rule, Michigan Historical Review (forthcoming 2025)
Discovering Michigan's American Rule: How 19th Century Statutes Broadly Taxing Attorney Fees Shaped Today's Contrary Practice (March 17, 2024). https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=1072475
Michigan Peremptory Orders: A Supreme Oddity, 58 Wayne Law Review 417 (No. 2, Summer 2012) (published 2013).
The Color of Law: Ernie Goodman, Detroit, and the Struggle for Labor and Civil Rights, (book review), 90 Mich. Bar J. No. 3, p. 50 (March 2011).
Michigan Consumer Protection Gutted by Supreme Court “Globe-alization", 53 Wayne Law Review 833 (Summer 2007).
The History of Michigan Law (book review), 86 Mich. Bar J. 52 (May 2007).
The First Generation of the Detroit Legal Aid Bureau, 24 Windsor Yearbook of Access to Justice 143 (February 2006).