Gary Pavela

Gary Pavela writes law and policy newsletters to which over 1,000 colleges and universities in the United States and Canada subscribe. He clerked for Judge Alfred P. Murrah of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit and was a faculty member for the Federal Judicial Center in Washington, D.C (the training arm of the United States Courts).

Identified by the New York Times as an "authority on academic ethics," Gary Pavela has been a consultant on law and policy issues at many leading universities, including Stanford University, the University of Michigan, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Georgetown University, The United States Naval Academy, Lehigh University, Brown University, Colgate University, Vassar College, Bryn Mawr College, and Smith College, among many others. In 2008 he was designated by the U.S. Department of State to address the "International Interdisciplinary Conference on Implementation of Western Educational Standards in Post-Soviet States" (Kyiv, Ukraine).


Pavela was a consultant to the Governor's Task Force on Campus Safety for the state of Wisconsin and spoke to Virginia Tech faculty and staff at the July 2007 "Symposium for Managing At-Risk Students" (sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education). He has appeared on the CNN, FOX, PBS, and CNBC networks and his work has been cited in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, the Chronicle of Higher Education, the National Law Journal, Business Week, Time, Newsweek, and U.S. and News and World Report, among many others.

In 2001 Pavela was appointed to the Advisory Board of the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University. In 2002 he was designated a "Fellow" of the National Association of College and University Attorneys. Fellows of the Association are identified as individuals who have "brought distinction to higher education and to the practice of law on behalf of colleges and universities across the nation." In 2005 he received the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators' "Outstanding Contribution to Literature and Research" award. In 2006 he was recognized as the University of Maryland "Outstanding Faculty Educator" by the Maryland Parents' Association.