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Mr. Garbus has participated in lectures and debates before the American Bar Association, the Bar Associations of New York, Washington and Los Angeles, federal and state judges, law schools such as Harvard, Yale, Columbia and Stanford and the Practising Law Institute.    In addition to the books mentioned below, he is a frequent contributor to major newspapers, national magazines and scholarly journals, including the New York Times , Washington Post , Los Angeles Times , Slate and The American Prospect .   Mr. Garbus has appeared on "60 Minutes," "Dateline," "Good Morning America", and the Charlie Rose Show, and served as a commentator for NBC, ABC, CBS, PBS, CNN, Fox NewsChannel, Court TV, Time and Newsweek on issues ranging from politics, entertainment, the arts, to law.   Furthermore, as the country witnessed the egregious conduct of the Federal Government's legal investigation of the Clinton Presidency, Mr. Garbus debated former Independent Prosecutor Kenneth Starr at venues across the country.

The international community has recognized the importance of Mr. Garbus' work.   The governments of the former Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia, Poland, China, Canada and Hungary have selected him to serve as a consultant on constitutional, media and communications law. Recently, the government of China called on Mr. Garbus to help address the problems posed by digital piracy that have come to plague the world.   While China's innovative legal developments were significant , Mr. Garbus realized the necessity of implementation of China's existing laws.   He traveled throughout China, speaking to prosecutors and judges on how to enforce effectively enforce those laws.   To further fulfill this assignment, he assumed a teaching role at Tsinghua University in Beijing where he instructed graduate law students, master of law candidates as well as the judges of the Chinese Intellectual Property Court on the enforceability of the country's new intellectual property, copyright, patent and trademark laws.   In 2004, he was appointed advisor to the Chinese team responsible for the creation of effective intellectual property laws.  

Other places where Mr. Garbus has taught or lectured at include:
State University of New York, Renmin University Beijing and Beda University Beijing and other academic institutions in China.

 

Trial lawyer Martin Garbus has diverse litigation experience
including copyright, intellectual property, commercial, corporate, criminal defense, First
Amendment, free speech, estates, class action, entertainment, libel, and internet law.