Panelist Bio - Peter Lake

Peter Lake currently serves as a Professor of Law, Charles A. Dana Chair, and Director of the Center for Excellence in Higher Education Law and Policy at Stetson University College of Law in Tampa, Florida.

He has spent over 25 years in the classroom teaching law students and served as Stetson’s interim director of Title IX compliance in 2015.  He is an internationally-recognized expert on higher education law and policy and has been quoted or referred to in hundreds of newspapers and court opinions throughout the United States, including the Supreme Courts of California and Massachusetts in 2018. Professor Lake, an award-winning academic, has authored numerous law review articles, books, and other publications.  

In addition to his full-time teaching duties and scholarly pursuits, Professor Lake currently serves as the president of Hierophant Enterprises, Inc., a higher education publishing and consulting company, and has recently signed on as a Senior Higher Education Consulting Attorney at the prestigious law firm of Steptoe & Johnson PLLC.  Professor Lake is a highly sought-after speaker and he has served as a presenter or keynote speaker at several hundred international, national, regional, and local meetings.  He has trained thousands of campus personnel on many student safety and other campus issues, including student mental health, alcohol and drug abuse, Title IX and sex discrimination, and First Amendment issues.

  

Professor Lake is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law.