Gary Maveal

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Emeritus Professor of Law

Gary Maveal
Contact Info:
Campus: Riverfront Campus
Building: Dowling Hall
Gary Maveal
Areas of Expertise:
Civil Procedure
Remedies
Evidence

Degrees

  • J.D. University of Detroit '81
  • B.A. Wayne State University '77

Biography

Prof. Maveal thirty-year career included teaching Civil Procedure, Evidence, and Remedies. His administrative duties included serving as Associate Dean for Academic Affairs (2004-2010) and as Administrator of the Law School’s American Inn of Court Program (1990-2018). He is a past recipient of the School's James T. Barnes, Sr. Memorial Faculty Scholar Award (2018) and the State Bar of Michigan's John W. Reed Michigan Lawyer Legacy Award (2024).

His first years of retirement undertook historical research of Michigan's so-called "American Rule" against shifting fees against losing parties in civil suits. His article examines statutes from the long Territorial Era and first years of statehood that taxed such fees in all cases and demonstrates their influence on current practices. Tracing the Origins of Michigan's American Rule Denying Attorney Fees to Winners in Civil Litigation, Michigan Historical Review, Vol. 51, No. 1, pp. 27-75 (Spring 2025).

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    Courses Taught

    Civil Procedure (1150)
    Evidence (2220)
    Remedies (3670)
    American Inns of Court (3990)
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    Selected Publications

    Tracing the Origins of Michigan's American Rule Denying Attorney Fees to Winners in Civil Litigation, Michigan Historical Review, Vol. 51, Number 1, (Spring 2025), pp. 27-75.

    Discovering Michigan's American Rule: How 19th Century Statutes Broadly Taxing Attorney Fees Shaped Today's Contrary Practice (March 17, 2024).

    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).

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