William Gallagher is Professor and Director of the IP Law Center at the Golden Gate University School of Law, where he teaches courses on intellectual property litigation, intellectual property law, torts, and legal ethics.  He also currently serves as Associate Dean for Faculty Scholarship.  From 2009-2011, Professor Gallagher was a Visiting Scholar at the Center for the Study of Law and Society at the UC Berkeley School of Law. 

Professor Gallagher received his JD from the UCLA School of Law; his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley School of Law (Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program); his MA from the University of Chicago; and his BA from the University of California, Berkeley.

Professor Gallagher is the author of articles on intellectual property law and professional ethics, which have appeared in the Santa Clara Computer & High Technology Law Journal, Santa Clara Law Review, Pepperdine Law Review, Law and Social Inquiry, Center for the Study of Law and Society/Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program Faculty Working Papers (University of California, Berkeley School of Law), and the Law and Politics Book Review.  His edited book, International Essays in Law and Society: Intellectual Property, was published in 2007 by Ashgate Press.  Professor Gallagher is also the founding editor of The IP Law Book Review.

Before entering full-time academia, Professor Gallagher was a partner in the San Francisco office of Townsend and Townsend and Crew LLP, where he specialized in patent, copyright, trademark, trade secret, and related intellectual property litigation in both state and federal courts nationwide.

Marc H. Greenberg is Professor of Law, founding Director, and formerly Co-Director of the Intellectual Property Law Center and Program at Golden Gate University of Law.  A member of the faculty since 2000, he teaches Intellectual Property Survey, Internet and Software Law, Intellectual Property and New Technology, and Entertainment Law in the IP curriculum.  He also teaches Civil Procedure, Business Associations and related courses in the general curriculum. He was the 2010-2011 Chair of the Art Law Section of the American Association of Law Schools, and is a past co-chair of the Copyright Section of the San Francisco Intellectual Property Law Association.

Professor Greenberg received his A.B. degree in English Literature from the University of California, Berkeley; his J.D. from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law, where he served as an articles editor of the Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly and published the first of his scholarly works analyzing the First Amendment cases of the Supreme Court’s 1978 term.

Professor Greenberg’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 presently working on a book focusing on comic books, creativity and the law. His articles have been published in the Berkeley Technology Law Journal, The Syracuse Journal of Law and Technology, The John Marshall Review of Intellectual Property Law, and The Loyola Chicago University Journal of International Law.

Before joining the GGU faculty, Professor Greenberg practiced IP, entertainment and business law, in both transactional work as well as litigation, in several firms in Northern California. He was of counsel to Chickering and Gregory in San Francisco and was a managing partner in his own firm, Nelsen and Greenberg, also in San Francisco.

Samuel F. Ernst is a Professor of Law at Golden Gate University School of Law.  Professor Ernst teaches in the areas of intellectual property, contracts, patent law, and copyright law.  Professor Ernst has authored numerous law review articles on patent law and contract law and is the co-author with Judge Timothy Dyk of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit of the chapter on “Patents” in the treatise Business and Commercial Litigation in the Federal Courts.  From 2013 to 2017, Professor Ernst was a professor at the Chapman University Fowler School of Law.  Prior to entering academia Professor Ernst was a partner at the international law firm of Covington & Burling in San Francisco, practicing intellectual property and appellate litigation while maintaining an active pro bono practice focusing on veterans disability recovery, civil liberties, and homeless advocacy.  During these years Professor Ernst also co-taught Pre-Trial Civil Litigation at the U.C. Berkeley School of Law.  After law school Professor Ernst served as a law clerk to the Honorable Timothy Dyk on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.  In 2010, Professor Ernst was recognized by the Federal Circuit Bar Association for his work on behalf of veterans.  In 2006 and 2008, he received a Certificate of Excellence from the Berkeley Food and Housing Project.

David Franklyn is a prominent law professor who is considered one of the nation's preeminent experts on intellectual property and technology law. He joined the faculty of Golden Gate University in 2018. Since 2000, he has been the Director of the McCarthy Institute for IP and Technology Law at the University of San Francisco. He consults with some of the world's leading companies and serves as an expert witness in trademark and IP cases.

At GGU, Franklyn has a joint appointment between the School of Law and the Ageno School of Business. This joint appointment will allow students to take classes that integrate legal and business principles.



Professor William Gallagher


Professor Marc H. Greenberg

Professor Samuel F. Ernst

Professor David Franklyn