Jon Garon
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Jon M. Garon is dean of Nova Southeastern University Shepard Broad College of Law. Dean Garon serves as chief academic officer for the law school, providing strategic leadership on programming, curriculum, enrollment management, marketing, and finance. He is a nationally recognized authority on technology law and intellectual property, particularly copyright law, entertainment, and information privacy. A tenured member of the law faculty, Dean Garon teaches Information Privacy Law, Cyberspace Law, Copyright Law, Entertainment Law, and related courses. He is the author of four books and more than 50 book chapters and articles, and he has presented at more than 200 programs across the U.S.
Garon served as Producer for the feature film Into The Void and legal counsel for numerous other films. He is of counsel with the law firm Gallagher, Callahan & Gartrell PC.
His teaching and scholarship often focus on business innovation and structural change to media, education and content-based industries. He has published over 50 books, book chapters, and academic articles. His books include - The Independent Filmmaker's Law & Business Guide to Financing, Shooting, and Distributing Independent and Digital Films (2009); Entertainment Law & Practice (2nd Ed. 2014); The Entrepreneur's Intellectual Property & Business Handbook (2018); The Pop Culture Business Handbook for Cons and Festivals (2019).
He is the author of the novel "Burn Rate" and stage plays "The Paleontologist," and "Angel for the Prosecution."
Prior to joining Nova Southeastern University in 2014, Garon was the inaugural director of the Northern Kentucky University Salmon P. Chase College of Law, Law + Informatics Institute from 2011-2014. The Law + Informatics Institute serves to integrate the specialized programming on technology and information systems as they apply across legal disciplines. He also served as dean and professor of law at Hamline University School of Law in St. Paul, Minnesota and interim dean of the Graduate School of Management from 2005 to 2006. Before Hamline, Dean Garon taught Entertainment Law and Copyright at Franklin Pierce Law Center in Concord, New Hampshire and Western State University College of Law in Orange County, California.
A Minnesota native, he received his bachelor's degree from the University of Minnesota in 1985 and his juris doctor degree from Columbia University School of Law in 1988.
Garon served as Producer for the feature film Into The Void and legal counsel for numerous other films. He is of counsel with the law firm Gallagher, Callahan & Gartrell PC.
His teaching and scholarship often focus on business innovation and structural change to media, education and content-based industries. He has published over 50 books, book chapters, and academic articles. His books include - The Independent Filmmaker's Law & Business Guide to Financing, Shooting, and Distributing Independent and Digital Films (2009); Entertainment Law & Practice (2nd Ed. 2014); The Entrepreneur's Intellectual Property & Business Handbook (2018); The Pop Culture Business Handbook for Cons and Festivals (2019).
He is the author of the novel "Burn Rate" and stage plays "The Paleontologist," and "Angel for the Prosecution."
Prior to joining Nova Southeastern University in 2014, Garon was the inaugural director of the Northern Kentucky University Salmon P. Chase College of Law, Law + Informatics Institute from 2011-2014. The Law + Informatics Institute serves to integrate the specialized programming on technology and information systems as they apply across legal disciplines. He also served as dean and professor of law at Hamline University School of Law in St. Paul, Minnesota and interim dean of the Graduate School of Management from 2005 to 2006. Before Hamline, Dean Garon taught Entertainment Law and Copyright at Franklin Pierce Law Center in Concord, New Hampshire and Western State University College of Law in Orange County, California.
A Minnesota native, he received his bachelor's degree from the University of Minnesota in 1985 and his juris doctor degree from Columbia University School of Law in 1988.