Gabriel H. Teninbaum

Biography

Gabe Teninbaum is a Professor of Legal Writing at Suffolk University Law School and former Assistant Dean for Innovation, Strategic Initiatives, and Distance Education. In that role, he led Suffolk Law's Legal Innovation and Technology (LIT) program, repeatedly ranked #1 nationally for legal technology by National Jurist magazine, and oversaw the launch of the law school's online J.D. program. The ABA Journal called him “perhaps the most tech savvy law professor in the nation.”

His teaching and research focuses on the intersection of legal reasoning, innovation, and entrepreneurship. He has taught more than a dozen courses on these topics at Suffolk Law and elsewhere, including at ELTE in Budapest, Hungary, Lund University in Sweden, and at MIT. He has also held appointments as a Faculty Associate at Harvard's Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, a Visiting Professor at the MIT Media Lab, and a Visiting Fellow at Yale Law School's Information Society Project.

Prof. Teninbaum founded SpacedRepetition.com, an educational technology company recognized by ALM/Legal Week Intelligence as one of the world's Top 20 Legal IT Innovations. Its platform has been used by tens of thousands of law students. Earlier in his career, he was a trial attorney at Sugarman in Boston and, before law school, an Operations Support Technician with the U.S. Secret Service, helping protect dozens of dignitaries, including two sitting U.S. presidents.

Education

• BA, Georgetown University
• MM, Cambridge College
• JD, Suffolk University

Publications

Books

• Productizing Legal Work: Providing Legal Expertise at Scale (Wolters Kluwer 2021)

Articles

• Spaced Repetition: A Method for Learning More Law in Less Time, 17 J. High Tech. L. 273 (2017)
• Medical Apology Programs and the Unauthorized Practice of Law, 46 NEW ENG. L. REV. 505 (2012)
• How Medical Apology Programs Harm Patients, 15 CHAPMAN L. REV. 307 (2011)
  
• Who Cares?, 3 DREXEL L. REV. 485 (2011)
  
• Reductio ad Hitlerum: Trumping the Judicial Nazi Card, 2009 MICH. ST. L. REV. 541 (2009)
  
• Conflict of Laws in Massachusetts, Part II: Related Problems in Selecting the Applicable Law, 92 MASS. L. REV. 87 (2009) (with Joseph W. Glannon)
  
• Conflict of Laws in Massachusetts, Part I: Current Choice of Law Theory, 92 MASS. L. REV. 12 (2009) (with Joseph W. Glannon)
  
• Private Medical and MassHealth Liens Made Simple, 2 J. MASS. ACAD. TRIAL ATTYS. 1 (2008)
  
• Steve Tombs' and Dave Whyte's Safety Crimes, 18 LAW & POLITICS BOOK REVIEW 392 (2008) (search "Teninbaum" then follow hyperlink) (book review)
  
• Easing the Burden: Mediating Criminal Misdemeanors Matters, 62 DISP. RESOL. J. 63 (2007)
  
• Eric Helland's and Alexander Tabarrok's Judge and Jury: American Tort Law on Trial, 17 LAW & POLITICS BOOK REV. 516 (2007) (search "Teninbaum" then follow hyperlink) (book review)
  
• Brandt Goldstein's Storming the Court: How a Band of Yale Law Students Sued the President and Won, 19 INT'L. J. REFUGEE L. 163 (2007) (book review)
  
• Eric Stover's The Witnesses: War Crimes and the Promise of Justice in The Hague, HUMAN RIGHTS & HUMAN WELFARE (2006) (search "Teninbaum" then follow hyperlink) (book review)
  
• Coordination of Personal Injury Protection Benefits: No-fault Insurance Coordinated with Fully Self-funded ERISA Private Health Insurance Plans and MedPay, J. MASS. ACAD. TRIAL ATTY'S (2005) (with Christine Sheridan)
• Note, American Volunteer Human Shields in Iraq: Free Speech or Treason?, 28 SUFFOLK TRANSNAT'L L. REV. 139 (2004)
  
• Medicare Secondary Payer Act: Reimbursement Required?, J. MASS. ACAD. TRIAL ATTY'S (2003)

Book Chapters

• The Peril and Promise of Certificates and Degree Programs in Legal Design, in Legal Design: Dignifying People in Legal Systems 378 (Miso Kim, Dan Jackson & Jules Rochielle Sievert eds., 2024)
• Child Trespassers, in MASSACHUSETTS PREMISES LIABILITY (2009) (lead author, assisted by Stacey Pietrowicz) Art Censorship, in ENCYLOPEDIA OF THE FIRST AMENDMENT (David Hudson, Jr. and David Schultz and John R. Vile eds., 2008)
• Shelley v. Kraemer, in THE JIM CROW ENCYCLOPEDIA (Nikki Brown and Barry Stentiford eds., 2008)
• Courts, Lawmaking by (Precedent), in ENCYCLOPEDIA OF LAW & SOCIETY, 3 VOLS. (David Clark ed., 2007)
• Sunday Closing Laws and Cases, in ENCYCLOPEDIA OF AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES, 4 VOLS. (Paul Finkelman ed., 2006)
• Child Trespassers, in MASSACHUSETTS PREMISES LIABILITY (2004) (secondary author, lead author was Robert W. Casby)

Other Publications

• The Effect of Worker's Compensation and Other Liens on Negotiation and Settlement of Cases, TORT SETTLEMENTS: IS WHAT YOU SEE WHAT YOU GET?, SUFFOLK UNIVERSITY CENTER FOR ADVANCED LEGAL STUDIES Suffolk University Center for Advanced Legal Studies ( 2006 ) (with Valerie A. Yarashus) (Continuing Legal Education Materials)

Professional Activities

Mass. Access to Justice Commission's Web/Tech Working Group; Mass. Academy of Trial Attorneys; Legal Writing Institute

Bar Admittance

• MA
• U.S. District Court (Mass.)