Virtual Dean’s Roundtable with Dean Garfield ’94, vice president of public policy for Netflix, on Thursday, April 30, 2020
This event is not open to the public.
Throughout the school year, the dean hosts roundtable discussions with prominent guests who have utilized their law degrees in a variety of nontraditional ways. Guests discuss their work experiences and share valuable insights about how they found their chosen path. While typically held over lunch with a small group of students, we will now be hosting these conversations virtually due to the current situation. Please note that the roundtables are informal and off-the-record.
Dean Garfield ’94, who will be the Dean’s guest on Thursday, April 30, is vice president of public policy for Netflix. In this role, Dean leverages his unique blend of legal, leadership, and tactical skills to build and strengthen global public policy expertise, define and achieve strategic objectives, and accelerate social impact. Previously, Dean served as president and CEO of the Information Technology Industry Council (ITI), leading global advocacy for the world’s most innovative and dynamic tech companies, and bringing deep substantive advocacy experience to complex policy challenges in areas ranging from taxes to trade, autonomous system to advanced manufacturing, and from security to sustainability.
Dean also served as EVP and chief strategic officer for the Motion Picture Association (MPA). At the MPA, he developed the association's global strategies, forged industry alliances on behalf of the MPA, and led the MPA's Research and Technology Departments. Dean also represented the MPA before legislative bodies and at key conferences around the world, including the European Commission and China’s National People’s Congress.
Prior to the MPA, he was VP of legal affairs at the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). While at RIAA, Dean helped to develop the organization's comprehensive intellectual property policy and litigation strategies and managed several of the most important intellectual property cases in the United States, including the landmark copyright infringement case against file-sharing companies Grokster and Kazaa. He began his legal career as a litigation associate at Kaye, Scholer, Fierman, Hays & Handler, working to achieve clemency for death penalty cases.
Dean was previously appointed by President Obama and then re-appointed by President Trump to the President’s Trade Advisory Council. He was also recently appointed to the Department of Transportation Advisory Committee on Automation. He holds a joint degree from New York University School of Law (JD) and the Woodrow Wilson School of Public Administration and International Affairs at Princeton University (MPA), where he was a Ford-Rockefeller and Root-Tilden-Kern Scholar. He also has a BA from Middlebury College.
The roundtable will begin at 12:30 PM and end at 1:50 PM via the Zoom videoconferencing platform. It is open to 18 interested JD and graduate students. In order to achieve a representational mix of students, we will designate a proportionate number of seats to JD students and graduate students. Within each group (JD or LLM), attendees will be selected randomly from all students who have expressed interest.
If you would like to attend a virtual roundtable, please sign up in advance by emailing Ken Seagreaves at ken.seagreaves@nyu.edu. Please indicate whether you are a JD or graduate student.