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Jon M. Garon is Associate Dean for Technology and Innovation; Director of the Goodwin Program for Society, Technology, and the Law; and Professor of Law. Dean Garon teaches Constitutional Law, Contracts, Privacy Law, Entertainment Law, IP Law and related courses. Dean Garon facilitates curricular and co-curricular education on the ways in which technology impacts legal fields and pedagogy. In 2026, Dean Garon was named a CALI Fellow in Constitutional Law. 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. He has published over 100 academic articles, books, encyclopedia entries, and book chapters and presented at well over 300 events.

Dean Garon has served in numerous administrative positions, including Dean of the Shepard Broad College of Law from 2014-2020; Dean of Hamline School of Law from 2003-2008; Interim Dean of the Hamline Graduate School of Management from 2005-2006; Director of the NKU Chase Law + Informatics Institute from 2011-2014; and Western State College of Law, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs 1993-1996. In addition to serving as professor of law in those universities, he was a professor of law at UNH Franklin Pierce School of Law.

Dean Garon has held leadership positions as past chair of the ABA Law School Administration Committee, past chair AALS Section on Part-Time Legal Education, chair of the SEALS Online Education and Technology Committee, past chair of the Academic Advisory Board to the Copyright Alliance, and chair of the ABA BLS Cyber and Technology Committee.

Most of Dean Garon’s published articles are available without charge at NSU Selected Works and the Social Science Research Network .