Marc Greenberg, Visiting Professor

Mailing Address: 200 McAllister St. San Francisco, CA 94102 Class Website

Professor Marc Greenberg received his B.A. degree in English Literature from the University of California at Berkeley, and his J.D. degree from Hastings College of the Law in 1979.  He spent the next 20 years developing significant expertise as a civil litigator, specializing in business and intellectual property litigation.

Professor Greenberg has litigated hundreds of cases in state and federal court, as well as having participated both as counsel, mediator, and arbitrator in many cases handled through alternative dispute programs.  He was the counsel for prevailing party plaintiff-appellant Frank Meagher in Meagher v. IAM Pension Plan, 856 F.2d 1418 (9^th Cir. 1988), and author of the successful brief in opposition to the petition for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court in that case.

In 2000, Professor Greenberg joined the faculty of Golden Gate University School of Law, where he launched the Intellectual Property Law program, and obtained ABA acquiescence to the creation of an LL.M. degree program in IP Law.  Now tenured, Professor Greenberg teaches a variety of IP law courses, as well as the courses in Business Associations and Civil Procedure. 

Professor Greenberg’s scholarship focuses primarily on IP law, and he is the author of a series of articles examining the intersection between copyright, Internet and high-tech, and First Amendment law.  An avid art and comic book collector, he is Chair-Elect of the Art Law Section of the American Association of Law Schools and is at work on a series of articles about comics, the First Amendment, and obscenity law.