Eric Goldman
American law professor
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Eric Goldman (born April 15, 1968) is a law professor at Santa Clara University School of Law. He also co-directs the law school's High Tech Law Institute[1] and co-supervises the law school's Privacy Law Certificate.
April 15, 1968
UCLA School of Law, 1994
UCLA Anderson School of Management, 1994
Eric Goldman | |
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.jpg) Goldman in 2017 | |
| Born | Eric Schlachter April 15, 1968 Madison, Wisconsin, U.S. |
| Alma mater | UCLA, 1988 UCLA School of Law, 1994 UCLA Anderson School of Management, 1994 |
| Occupation | Law professor |
| Employer | Santa Clara University School of Law |
| Website | Eric Goldman.org Technology & Marketing Law Blog |
Career
Goldman was an assistant professor at Marquette University Law School, General Counsel of Epinions.com, and a technology transactions attorney at Cooley Godward.[citation needed] He then joined the faculty at Santa Clara University.
Goldman was part of the first wave of teaching Internet Law courses in law schools, having taught his first course in 1995–96.[2] He has testified before Congress on the Consumer Review Fairness Act,[3] Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act (SESTA),[4] and Allow States and Victims to Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act (FOSTA).[5] In a well-publicized December 2005 post to his Technology & Marketing Law Blog, Goldman incorrectly predicted Wikipedia's demise in five years.[6][7][8] Goldman has co-authored (with Rebecca Tushnet of Harvard Law) the first Advertising & Marketing Law casebook for the law school community.[9]
He has been shortlisted as an "IP Thought Leader" by Managing IP magazine[10] and named an "IP Vanguard" by the California State Bar's Intellectual Property section.[11]
Goldman publishes the Technology & Marketing Law Blog, which covers Internet Law, Intellectual Property, and Advertising Law.[citation needed] The blog was named to the ABA Journal's Blawg 100 Hall of Fame.[12]
Goldman oversees DoctoredReviews.com, a website designed to combat doctors' efforts to suppress patients' reviews,[13] serves on the board of directors of the Public Participation Project, a group lobbying for federal anti-SLAPP legislation[14] and coauthored an amicus brief in the 1-800 Contacts, Inc. v. WhenU.com, Inc. case with the Electronic Frontier Foundation.[15]
Scholarship
Select publications
- Goldman, E. (Spring 2006), "Search Engine Bias and the Demise of Search Engine Utopianism", Yale Journal of Law & Technology, 8: 188, Bibcode:2008wsis.book..121G, SSRN 893892.
- "Deregulating Relevancy in Internet Trademark Law", Emory Law Journal, 54: 507, 2005, SSRN 635803.
- "Warez Trading and Criminal Copyright Infringement", Journal of Copyright Society, 51, USA: 395, 2004, SSRN 487163.
- "Wikipedia's Labor Squeeze and its Consequences", Journal of Telecommunications and High Technology Law, 8, USA: 157, 2010, SSRN 487163.
- "Emojis and the Law", Washington Law Review, 93, USA: 1227, 2018, SSRN 3133412.
Books
- Advertising & Marketing Law: Cases and Materials (2nd Edition, 2014; 3rd Edition, 2016; 4th Edition, 2018)[16] co-authored with Rebecca Tushnet (the first casebook on this topic)
- INTERNET LAW: CASES & MATERIALS (2014; 2015; 2016; 2017; 2018; 2019 editions)[17]
- Find Kitty Nala (co-authored with Lisa Goldman) (2016)[18]