Jon Garon named Associate Dean for Innovation and Technology at NSU Shepard Broad College of Law

Professor Jon Garon has been appointed to serve as the new Associate Dean for Technology & Innovation at Nova Southeastern University Shepard Broad College of Law in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Dean Garon teaches Constitutional Law, Contracts, Privacy Law, Entertainment Law, IP Law and related courses. In leading the Technology & 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 noted author and public advocate in the field. Recent publications include: Artificial Intelligence Law and Regulation in a Nutshell (West Academic 2025); How AI, Metaverses, Crypto, and Cyber will Upend the 21st Century (Edward Elgar 2024); and The Law of Digital Content (Am. Bar. Ass'n 2025) (editor and co-author).

Dean Garon has published more than 70 academic articles, books, and book chapters, and he has presented more than 300 programs. 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.

Dean Garon served as dean for NSU's Shepard Broad College of Law from 2014 to 2020. He currently serves as the Director of the Goodwin Program for Society, Technology, and the Law and oversees the Master of Science in Law (MSL) degree program and the Legal Masters (LL.M.) program. Prior to joining Nova Southeastern University in 2014, Dean Garon was the inaugural director of the Northern Kentucky University Salmon P. Chase College of Law, Law + Informatics Institute, serving from 2011 to2014. He served as dean and professor of law at Hamline University School of Law in St. Paul, Minnesota from 2003 to 2008 and interim dean of the Hamline 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. Dean Garon has been named a Senior Scholar at the IPPI: The IP Policy Institute, University of Akron School of Law Washington, D.C. and an Affiliated Faculty Member at the University of New Hampshire Franklin Pierce School of Law.

Nova Southeastern University Shepard Broad College of Law
3300 S. University Drive
Fort Lauderdale, FL 33328

About Shepard Broad College of Law: Nova Southeastern University's College of Law offers a cutting edge, skills-centered academic program in three-year full-time and four-year part-time divisions. With its recently redeveloped clinical programs, every NSU Law student is guaranteed a live-client experience. In-house clinical studies are supplemented by full-time field placement opportunities practicing law in Florida, across the United States, or select locations throughout the globe. To solidify student success after graduation, NSU Law pioneered a curriculum on the business of lawyering through the NSU Law Leadership Academy. NSU Law students have a myriad of curricular opportunities, including a rich, diverse curriculum, concentrations in International Law, Health Law or IP, Technology and Cybersecurity; dual degree programs abroad in Rome, Barcelona, or Prague; dual degree programs at many of NSU's other 17 colleges; and much more. For more information, please visit law.nova.edu.

About Nova Southeastern University (NSU): At NSU, students don't just get an education, they get the competitive edge they need for real careers, real contributions and real life. A dynamic, private research university, NSU is providing high-quality educational and research programs at the undergraduate, graduate, and professional degree levels. Established in 1964, the university includes 16 colleges, the 215,000-square-foot Center for Collaborative Research, a private JK-12 grade school, the Mailman Segal Center (early childhood education) with specialists in Autism, the world-class NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale, and the Alvin Sherman Library, Research and Information Technology Center, one of Florida's largest public libraries.

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