About MHG

An experienced lawyer, arbitrator/mediator, expert witness, law professor, author, and public speaker, Marc H. Greenberg (MHG) is Professor of Law and Founding Director of the Intellectual Property Law Program at Golden Gate University School of Law (GGU); he also maintains a law and arbitration/mediation practice, primarily handling intellectual property, real property and corporate law matters; and he is a frequent lecturer and prolific writer on a variety of legal and business topics. 
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MHG received an A.B. degree in English Literature from the University of California, Berkeley; and a J.D. from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law. From 1979 – 2000, he practiced IP, entertainment, and business law, in both transactional work as well as litigation, in several firms in Northern California: he is also a certified arbitrator/mediator.

He has been a member of the GGU faculty since 2000, teaching Intellectual Property Survey, CyberLaw, Intellectual Property and New Technology, An Introduction to Privacy Law, and Entertainment Law in the IP curriculum. His teaching also includes doctrinal courses in Civil Procedure, Contracts, Business Associations, Professional Responsibility, Property Law, Wills and Trusts, and Solo and Small Firm Practice and related courses in the general curriculum. MHG was the 2010-2011 Chair of the Art Law Section of the American Association of Law Schools (AALS) and is a past co-chair of the Copyright Section of the San Francisco Intellectual Property Law Association (SFIPLA). He is a Board Member of the ABA IP Section Books Editorial Board.

MHG’s scholarship has focused on legal issues pertaining to content on the Internet, obscenity law in online contexts, and copyright issues both in the U.S and in China. He is the author of three books: Fandom and the Law (ABA Publishing 2021), Copyright Termination and Recapture Laws: Good Intentions Gone Awry (ABA Publishing 2016), and Comic Art, Creativity and the Law (Edward Elgar Publishing 2014, 2nd edition forthcoming in 2022). His previously published articles have appeared in a number of law reviews, including the Berkeley Technology Law Journal, The Loyola Chicago University Journal of International Law, and The Loyola Los Angeles University Entertainment Law Review. He is a frequent speaker at SFIPLA, ABA, and AALS conferences.