Prof. Eric Goldman

Eric Goldman is Associate Dean for Research and Professor of Law at Santa Clara University School of Law, where he co-directs the Datta Center for High Tech Law (formerly the High Tech Law Institute) and co-supervises the school's Privacy Law Certificate. His research and teaching focus on internet law, intellectual property, privacy, and advertising and marketing law, and his article "Emojis and the Law" (Washington Law Review, 2018) is a leading study of how courts treat emoji. He is the author of an Internet Law casebook and co-author of an Advertising & Marketing Law casebook, and he writes the long-running Technology & Marketing Law Blog, an inductee of the ABA Journal's Blawg Hall of Fame. Santa Clara University honored him with its Award for Sustained Excellence in Scholarship. Before entering academia, he practiced internet law at Cooley Godward in Silicon Valley and served as general counsel of Epinions.com.