Jon Festinger

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About Jon Festinger

Jon Festinger, K.C. is a Lecturer at the Allard School of Law, where he teaches courses including Intellectual Property Law, Torts, A.I. and Law, Communications Law, Video Game Law, and Business Organizations. Jon has extensive experience in pedagogic AI projects, including Socrates A.I.(UBC CTLT), UBC T.E.A.C.H.(UBC LT Hub), the Judicial Interrogatory Simulator (UBC EML), and a Legal Aid Clinic A.I. Tool (UBC CIC). Jon has held academic appointments at UBC’s Sauder School of Business, Graduate School of Journalism and Faculty of Arts, as well as at the TRU and UVic Faculties of Law, Simon Fraser University/Centre for Digital Media, and was an Honourary Industry Professor at the Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary University of London. He is the author of Video Game Law (LexisNexis, 2005; 2012) and co-founded the Interactive Entertainment Law Journal in 2018. Jon’s career also includes significant industry roles, including in-house counsel at WIC Western International Communications, Senior VP of the CTV Television Network & founding GM of VTV Vancouver Television, as well as being Executive VP, Business & General Counsel of the Vancouver Canucks and GM Place. Jon’s volunteer activities include being a Director of the British Columbia Law Institute, and having been Chair of viaSport British Columbia, Ronald MacDonald House B.C, and a Trustee of the B.C. Sports Hall of Fame. Jon’s is a member of the Law Society of B.C. and is Of Counsel to Chandler Fogden Lyman Law Corporation.