Terms of Service

1. What Gavel is (and isn't)

Gavel is a self-serve study platform for law students in the United States. It provides practice questions, writing exercises, automated feedback, and a study workspace (case reader, brief writer, cold-call practice, outlines, and flashcards) built largely from material you supply. Gavel is not a law firm and does not provide legal advice. Nothing on the platform creates an attorney-client relationship, and nothing here is a substitute for your own coursework, your professors, or official sources.

2. Accounts and eligibility

You must be at least 18 years old and provide accurate information. You are responsible for your account credentials and for activity under your account. We may suspend or close accounts that abuse the service, attempt to bulk-extract content, or violate these terms.

3. Subscriptions, billing, and cancellation

The Gavel subscription is offered on a monthly or an annual term, at the prices shown on the pricing page when you subscribe. Payment is processed by Stripe.

• It renews automatically. Your subscription renews at the end of each term, for the same term length and at the then-current price, and your payment method is charged automatically, until you cancel.
• You can cancel at any time from the billing portal linked in your account settings. Cancelling stops future charges. Your access continues through the end of the period you have already paid for, and that period is not prorated or refunded.
• Switching plans is prorated. Moving between the monthly and annual terms mid-period credits the unused portion of your current term against the new one.
• Price changes apply from your next renewal, and we will tell you before one takes effect.
• Failed payments. If a renewal payment fails, subscriber features may be suspended until payment succeeds.

4. Free accounts and usage allowances

Free accounts include a limited, lifetime allowance of AI-generated material, and subscriptions include a larger allowance that refreshes monthly. Current figures are published on the pricing page and shown in your account settings. Allowances exist to keep the service affordable to run, and we may adjust them, with notice before any change that reduces what a paid subscription includes.

5. One-time purchases, credits, and refunds

Grading credits are sold as a one-time purchase and are consumed when written answers are graded. If a payment is refunded, associated access is revoked and unused granted credits are removed. Purchases unlock access for the purchasing account only and are not transferable.

6. AI-generated content and feedback

Practice content and written-answer feedback are generated with AI assistance and carry review-status labels. They can be wrong. Do not rely on Gavel content as a statement of current law. Verify against your course materials and official sources. Scores on Gavel are practice signals, not predictions of exam results, and we make no claim about your academic outcomes.

7. Your content

Notes, answers, briefs, and other material you submit remain yours. You grant Gavel the limited license needed to operate the service: to store your content, run it through the generation or grading you request, and display it back to you. We do not use your submitted content to build the shared question bank, and we do not sell it or use it to train AI models.

What you promise us about what you submit. Each time you add material to Gavel, you represent and warrant that you created it or otherwise have all rights necessary to submit it and to have it processed as described in these terms, and that doing so does not infringe anyone's copyright or other rights or breach any obligation you owe your institution. Material you may not submit is set out in the Community Guidelines and the Academic Honor Code, and it includes casebook excerpts, commercial study aids, other providers' question banks, your professor's materials, and another student's work.

We may remove material. We may remove or restrict access to anything on Gavel that we reasonably believe breaks these terms, breaks the Guidelines or the Honor Code, or infringes someone else's rights, and we may do so without notice where the situation calls for it. We have no obligation to monitor what you submit, and not removing something is not approval of it.

Two things you control can make your work visible to someone else. If you create a share link for a note set, anyone holding that link can view it until you revoke it or it expires. If you join a class, the educator who runs it can see, by name, that you completed the work they assigned. Nothing else you write is visible to other users. A share link is a publication, and you remain responsible for what you publish through one.

8. Classes and educators

Educator accounts can create classes, publish material to enrolled students, and see which enrolled students completed an assignment. Educators cannot see a student's private notes, briefs, written answers, or grades. If you run a class, you are responsible for having the right to distribute whatever you publish to it, and for handling your students' information lawfully. Publishing to a class is distribution, and section 7 applies to it in full.

9. Acceptable use

The Community Guidelines and the Academic Honor Code are part of these terms and you agree to both. In summary: do not scrape, resell, or bulk-export content; do not submit material that infringes the rights of others, including casebook excerpts or other providers' question banks; do not share your account; do not use Gavel during a graded assessment unless your professor has permitted it in writing; and do not probe, overload, or disrupt the service, or attempt to defeat its usage limits. Where those documents are more specific than this paragraph, they govern.

10. Copyright, notices, and repeat infringement

Gavel and its original content are ours. If you believe material on Gavel infringes your copyright, our Copyright and DMCA Policy sets out how to send a notice to our designated agent, what a notice must contain, how to file a counter-notice, and what we do in between.

Repeat infringers. We have adopted and we implement a policy of terminating, in appropriate circumstances, the accounts of users who repeatedly infringe copyright, and we may terminate an account sooner where the conduct is flagrant. The schedule we follow is published in the DMCA policy. We also accommodate standard technical measures used by copyright owners to identify and protect their works.

If you are faculty or an administrator at a law school, you do not need to file a copyright notice to have your institution's course material removed. See the institutional route.

11. Your indemnity

You agree to indemnify and hold harmless Gavel and the people who run it from any third-party claim, demand, loss, or expense, including reasonable attorneys' fees, arising out of material you submit to the service, material you distribute through a share link or a class, or your breach of these terms, the Community Guidelines, or the Academic Honor Code. We will tell you promptly about any claim we seek indemnity for and will not settle it without your consent, which you will not unreasonably withhold. This section does not apply to a claim arising from our own conduct, and nothing in it limits a right you have under the law of your state that cannot be waived.

12. Disclaimers and limitation of liability

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, the service is provided "as is" and "as available", and we disclaim all warranties, express or implied, including the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, and non-infringement. We do not warrant that the service will be uninterrupted or error-free, or that anything generated on it will be accurate or current. Section 6 says more about that last point, and it matters more here than the usual boilerplate: this is a study tool whose content is generated.

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, Gavel's total liability for all claims relating to the service is limited to the amount you paid us in the twelve months before the claim arose, and we are not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, or for lost profits, lost data, or loss of goodwill, whether or not we were told such damages were possible and whether the claim is brought in contract, tort, or on any other basis.

Nothing in these terms excludes or limits any liability that cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law. That includes liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, and for gross negligence or willful misconduct.

Your rights depend on where you live. Some states do not allow the exclusion of implied warranties, or the exclusion or limitation of liability for incidental or consequential damages, so some or all of the above may not apply to you. Where a limitation in this section is not permitted, it applies only to the fullest extent the law does permit, and the rest of this section stays in force. You may also have other rights that vary from state to state, and nothing here takes those away.

13. Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules, and any dispute will be brought in the state or federal courts located there. Nothing here waives a right you have under the consumer-protection law of your own state.

14. Severability, waiver, and survival

Severability. If any provision of these terms is held invalid or unenforceable, that provision will be modified to the minimum extent necessary to make it enforceable while keeping its original intent, and if it cannot be modified, it will be severed. Either way the remaining provisions stay in full force. A provision severed or narrowed under the law of one state remains in force everywhere its enforcement is permitted.

No waiver. If we do not enforce a provision of these terms, that is not a waiver of it, and waiving it once does not waive it later. A waiver binds us only if we give it in writing.

Survival. Sections 6, 7, 10, 11, 12, 13, and this section survive the closing of your account, because each of them is about something that outlives the account: what was generated, what you submitted, who owns it, and how a dispute about any of that is handled.

15. Changes and termination

We may update these terms, and material changes will be posted here with a new date. You may stop using the service at any time. Deleting your account removes your personal data as described in the Privacy Policy.

16. Contact

Questions about these terms: contact@gavelstudy.com. Copyright notices go to the designated agent named in the Copyright and DMCA Policy instead.

This document was last updated August 23, 2026.