Jon M. Garon

Education:

• J.D., Columbia University School of Law, 1988
• • B.A., University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, 1985

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. In leading the Technology and Innovation program at NSU Law, Dean Garon facilitates curricular and co-curricular education for students, faculty, alumni, and community partners on the ways in which technology impacts legal fields and pedagogy. Dean Garon supports NSU Law’s efforts for continuing legal education for attorneys and judges, expanding experiential training for students, pedagogical and scholarship support for faculty, and an exploration of topics related to artificial intelligence, legal technology, intellectual property, cyber security, privacy, digital assets, and related fields.

Dean Garon is a nationally recognized authority on technology law and intellectual property, particularly copyright law, entertainment and information privacy. 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. Recently published books include:

• Artificial Intelligence Law and Regulation in a Nutshell (West Academic 2025).
• The Law of Digital Content (Am. Bar. Ass’n 2025) (editor and co-author).
• How AI, Metaverses, Crypto, and Cyber will Upend the 21st Century (Edward Elgar 2024).
• Parenting for the Digital Generation-The Parent's Guide to Digital Education and the Online Environment (Rowman & Littlefield 2022).
• Entertainment Law & Practice (Carolina Academic Press Third Edition 2020) (with Teacher's Manual) (Fourth Edition Forthcoming 2026).
• Mastering Artificial Intelligence (Carolina Academic Press 2026) (Forthcoming).

Dean Garon is also recognized for his scholarship in the field of constitutional law, particularly related to the First Amendment. In 2026, Dean Garon was named a CALI Fellow in Constitutional Law.

Dear Garon served as Dean of the Shepard Broad College of Law from 2014-2020, focusing on projects that included new degrees for LL.M., M.S. in Law & Policy, and B.S. in Paralegal Studies; two new clinics – the Adults with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Law Clinic and the Sharon and Mitchell W. Berger Entrepreneur Law Clinic; and numerous new programs including the Legal Launchpad and Legal Incubator program, the Intellectual Property, Cybersecurity and Technology Law Program, and the Honors Program.

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 specialized programming on technology and information systems as they apply across legal disciplines.  Dean Garon served as dean and professor of law at Hamline University School of Law in St. Paul, Minnesota.  He was professor of law from 2003 to 2011, dean of the Law School from 2003 to 2008 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.

Among his numerous accomplishments, Dean Garon has held key leadership positions as past chair of both the American Bar Association’s Law School Administration Committee, the Association of American Law Schools Section on Part-Time Legal Education, the Online Education Committee of the Southeastern Association of Law Schools, and chairperson of the Academic Advisory Board to the Copyright Alliance. His teaching and scholarship often focus on IP and business innovation, emphasizing structural change to media, education and content-based industries.

Areas of Interest

• Art Law
• Bar Passage
• Constitutional Law
• Contracts
• Copyright Law
• Defamation
• Entertainment Law
• Freedom of Religion
• Freedom of Speech
• Privacy Law
• Theater Law
• Trademark Law

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