Jon Garon
ProfessorEmail: jgaron@hamline.edu
Phone: 651 523-2535
B.A., University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
J.D., Columbia University School of Law
Professor Garon joined Hamline in 2003, serving as the law school's ninth dean from 2003-2008. In addition, he was appointed Interim Dean of the Graduate School of Management for 2005-06. He is a nationally recognized authority on intellectual property, particularly copyright law, entertainment practice, cyberspace, and intellectual property entrepreneurship. He traveled extensively on his post-deanship sabbatical, lecturing in Israel and China at schools including Hebrew University, Haifa University, University of Hong Kong, University of International Business and Economics, Beijing and East China University of Political Science and Law, Shanghai. Garon returned to the classroom in 2009, teaching Intellectual Property, Copyright, and Entertainment Law.
Garon also has extensive practice experience. From 1988 to 1989, he worked at Shea & Gould and its successor firm Myerson & Kuhn in Los Angeles, California, specializing in entertainment law, film financing, recording agreements, business formation, and copyright and trademark licensing. From 1990-1993, he ran a solo practice in Laguna Beach, California, where he practiced a wide range of entertainment, corporate, and transactional law. From 1994-1996, he worked for Hawes & Fischer, in Newport Beach, California, facilitating growth of its entertainment law practice, and negotiating and drafting software development, multimedia, and music agreements. In 2000, he began working at the law firm of Gallagher, Callahan, and Gartrell, where he remains an of counsel member of the firm. He has extensive practice experience in the areas of entertainment law, business planning, copyright, software licensing, data privacy and security, and trademark law.
He began teaching full time in 1993 at Western State University College of Law in Orange County, California. There he taught all aspects of intellectual property, entertainment, and business law. He served as chairperson on the curriculum committee and served as founding president of the Western State Law Foundation. From 1996 to 1998, he served as Associate Dean of Academic Affairs. From 1999 to 2001, he was on the Dean's Advisory Board, and from 1998 to 2001, he was a member of the Entrepreneurial Law Center Advisory Board. In 2000, he joined the Franklin Pierce Law Center in Concord, New Hampshire, where he taught copyright, entertainment law, and business law. While in New Hampshire, he served as Chairperson of the New Hampshire Film Commission.
Publications
- Reintermediation,
2 INT. J. PRIVATE LAW 227 (2009) (republished in SYLVIA KIERKEGAARD, ED., SYNERGIES AND CONFLICTS IN CYBERLAW (2008)).
IngentaConnect PDF - THE INDEPENDENT FILMMAKER'S LAW AND BUSINESS GUIDE: FINANCING, SHOOTING, AND DISTRIBUTING INDEPENDENT AND DIGITAL FILMS (2009).
- Playing in the Virtual Arena: Avatars, Publicity and Identity Reconceptualized through Virtual Worlds and Computer Games,
11 CHAPMAN L. REV. 465 (2008).
Lexis Westlaw HeinOnline (Hamline Users) HeinOnline PDF - What if DRM Fails?: Seeking Patronage in the iWasteland and the Virtual O,
2008 MICH. STATE L. REV. 103 (2008).
Lexis Westlaw HeinOnline (Hamline Users) HeinOnline PDF - To Make a Difference: Dean as Producer,
39 U. TOL. L. REV. 297 (2008).
Lexis Westlaw HeinOnline (Hamline Users) HeinOnline PDF - ENTERTAINMENT LAW AND PRACTICE (2005 and supplement 2007).
- Take Back the Night: Why an Association of Regional Law Schools Will Return Core Values to Legal Education and Provide an Alternative to Tiered Rankings,
38 U. TOL. L. REV. 517 (2007).
Lexis Westlaw HeinOnline (Hamline Users) HeinOnline - OWN IT - THE LAW & BUSINESS GUIDE TO LAUNCHING A NEW BUSINESS THROUGH INNOVATION, EXCLUSIVITY AND RELEVANCE (2007).
- Acquiring and Managing the Identity Interests for Software and Media Products,
1 FLA. ENT. L. REV. 41 (2006).
Available in Hamline Law Library Periodicals Collection PDF - THEATER LAW: CASES AND MATERIALS (2004 and Supp. 2005) (with others).
- Normative Copyright: a Conceptual Framework for Copyright Philosophy and Ethics,
88 CORNELL L. REV. 1278 (2003).
Lexis Westlaw HeinOnline (Hamline Users) HeinOnline PDF - THE INDEPENDENT FILMMAKER’S LAW AND BUSINESS GUIDE: FINANCING, SHOOTING, AND DISTRIBUTING INDEPENDENT AND DIGITAL FILMS (2002).
- The Electronic Jungle: the Application of Intellectual Property Law to Distance Education,
4 VAND. J. ENT. L. & PRAC. 146 (2002).
Lexis Westlaw HeinOnline (Hamline Users) HeinOnline PDF - Entertainment Law,
76 TUL. L. REV. 559 (2001-2002).
Lexis Westlaw HeinOnline (Hamline Users) HeinOnline PDF - Media & Monopoly in the Information Age: Slowing the Convergence at the Marketplace of Ideas,
17 CARDOZO ARTS & ENT. L.J. 491 (1999).
Lexis Westlaw HeinOnline (Hamline Users) HeinOnline PDF - Star Wars: Film Permitting, Prior Restraint & Government's Role in the Entertainment Industry,
17 LOYOLA L.A. ENT. L. REV. 1 (1996).
Lexis Westlaw HeinOnline (Hamline Users) HeinOnline PDF - Charity Begins at Home: Alternatives in Nonprofit Regulation, 2 W. ST. U. CONSUMER L.J. 1 (1993).