Eric Goldman

This article is about the law professor. For the historian, see Eric F. Goldman.

Eric Goldman
Goldman in 2017
Born	Eric Schlachter (1968-04-15) April 15, 1968 (age 57) 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

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.

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]

References

1. "Goldman, Eric", Faculty (profile), Santa Clara: High Tech Law, archived from the original on July 31, 2012, retrieved July 10, 2012.
2. Goldman, Eric (July 14, 2008), Teaching Cyberlaw, St. Louis University Law Journal, SSRN   1159903 .
3. Goldman, Eric (November 2015), An Assessment of the Consumer Review Freedom Act of 2015, SSRN   2686021
4. Goldman, Eric (September 19, 2017), Sex Trafficking Exceptions to Section 230, SSRN   3038632
5. Goldman, Eric (November 30, 2017), Balancing Section 230 and Anti-Sex Trafficking Initiatives, SSRN   3079193
6. Goldman, Eric (December 5, 2005). "Wikipedia Will Fail Within 5 Years". Technology & Marketing Law Blog. Retrieved February 3, 2025.
7. Goldman, Eric (December 5, 2006). "Wikipedia Will Fail in Four Years". Technology & Marketing Law Blog. Retrieved February 3, 2025.
8. Goldman, Eric. (2010) "Wikipedia's Labor Squeeze and its Consequences" J. on Telecomm. and High Tech. L.8:157
9. Advertising & Marketing Law: Cases & Materials, self-published, Summer 2018.
10. Awards Shortlists revealed, North America: Managing IP, 2012.
11. "IP Vanguard Award Honorees", IP Law, CA: Cal bar, 2011.
12. Journal, A. B. A. "Blawg 100 Hall of Fame". ABA Journal.
13. Doctored Reviews .
14. Board of Directors, Anti-SLAPP, archived from the original on July 4, 2012, retrieved July 10, 2012.
15. Press Release, EFF, February 19, 2004.
16. Goldman, Eric gumroad profile Advertising & Marketing Law: Cases & Materials, self-published, Summer 2018
17. INTERNET LAW: CASES & MATERIALS, self-published, Summer 2019
18. Find Kitty Nala, self-published, 2016

External links

• Eric Goldman's blog