Dan L. Burk

Burk held a B.S. in Microbiology (1985) from Brigham Young University, an M.S. (1987) in Molecular Biology and Biochemistry from Northwestern University, a J.D. (1990) from Arizona State University, and a J.S.M (1994) from Stanford University.{{cite web |url=https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Dan_Burk |title= Dan L. Burk |website= ResearchGate}}

Burk was an assistant professor at Seton Hall University School of Law from 1995 to 1997, and an associate professor from 1997 to 1999. He served as a professor at the University of Minnesota Law School from 2000 to 2008. In 2008, he became a founding faculty member at the University of California, Irvine, School of Law, where he is currently Chancellor's Professor of Law.

He had been a visiting professor at a number of universities in the United States, including George Mason University School of Law from 1993 to 1995; Cardozo Law School (Yeshiva University) and Ohio State University in 1999; University of Minnesota Law School from 1999 to 2000; Boalt Hall School of Law (University of California, Berkeley) in 2003; and Cornell University Law School in 2005.

He also taught in institutions across the world, including: Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Italy from 2001 to 2004; the University of Toronto Faculty of Law in Canada in 2003; the University of Tilburg in the Netherlands in 2007; the Munich Intellectual Property Law Center, Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition in Germany from 2004 to 2016;{{cite web|url=https://www.law.gwu.edu/munich-summer-program-faculty |title=Munich Summer Program Faculty |website=GW Law}} the University of Haifa in Israel in 2010;{{cite web|url=http://weblaw.haifa.ac.il/en/Research/ResearchCenters/techlaw/Pages/visitingProf.aspx |title=Visiting Professors |website=University of Haifa}} the University of Lucerne in Switzerland in 2014; and the Paris Institute of Political Studies in France in 2016.{{cite web|url=http://www.law.uci.edu/faculty/full-time/burk/burkCV.pdf |title= Dan L. Burk, Chancellor's Professor of Law |website= University of California, Irvine School of Law}}

In 2015, he was selected for a Leverhulme visitorship to the London School of Economics and Political Science,{{cite web |url=http://www.law.uci.edu/news/press-releases/10-21-14.html |title=UCI Law's Dan Burk Chosen for Leverhulme Visiting Professorship at London School of Economics|date=21 October 2014 |website=www.law.uci.edu}} where he delivered a series of Leverhulme Public Lectures on “Biotechnology and Software Patenting in the Information Society”.{{cite web |url=http://www.lse.ac.uk/website-archive/publicEvents/events/2015/03/20150306t1830vAT.aspx |title=The Gene Patent Controversy: LSE Law Leverhulme public lecture | date=6 March 2015 |website=www.lse.ac.uk}}

In 2017, he was awarded the [http://www.fulbright.org.uk/fulbright-awards/exchanges-to-the-uk/scholars-and-professionals/fulbright-cyber-security-awards Fulbright U.S. Scholar Award in Cybersecurity] to the Oxford Internet Institute in the United Kingdom for the fall 2017, according to the U.S. Department of State and the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board.{{cite web |title=Chancellor's Professor of Law Dan Burk Receives Fulbright U.S. Scholar Award in Cybersecurity |date=4 March 2017 |url = http://www.law.uci.edu}}

Burk's scholarship has dealt with legal issues created by emerging technologies. His 1996 article on “Federalism in Cyberspace”{{cite journal |title= Federalism in Cyberspace |last=Burk |first=Dan L. |date=1996 |ssrn=44433|volume=28 |journal= University of Connecticut Law Review |page=1095}} became the basis of several early decisions by U.S. federal courts regarding state regulation of the Internet, including American Library Association v. Pataki (S.D. N.Y. 1997){{cite web |url=http://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/FSupp/969/160/1808497/ |title=American Libraries Ass'n v. Pataki, 969 F. Supp. 160 (S.D.N.Y. 1997)|date= 20 June 1997|website=JUSTIA US Law |publisher=U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York}}See Am. Libraries Ass'n v. Pataki, 969 F. Supp. 160, 171 (S.D.N.Y. 1997) (cited by 45 federal courts as of May 16, 2017), Commonwealth of Virginia v. Jaynes, 65 Va. Cir. 355, 357 (2004); see, e.g., Michelle Armond, Note, Regulating Conduct on the Internet: State Internet Regulation and the Dormant Commerce Clause, 17 Berkeley Tech. L.J. 379 (2002). and American Civil Liberties Union v. Johnson (10th Cir. 1999),{{cite web |url=https://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-10th-circuit/1293101.html|title=AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION v. JOHNSON|date=2 November 1999|website=FindLaw|publisher=United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit}} and was important in shaping the character of present Internet activity.As of May 20, 2017, the article has been cited by courts and legal scholars 129 times (relying on citing references from Lexis and Westlaw); on SSRN, the article has been downloaded 5,708 times. Another notable article, “The Trouble With Trespass” (2000),{{cite journal |title=The Trouble with Trespass |last=Burk |first= Dan L. |ssrn=223513|journal=Journal of Small and Emerging Business Law |volume=4 |year=2000}} influenced courts considering legal claims regarding “trespass to computers,” while Burk's analysis of the issue was adopted in the landmark opinion of the California Supreme Court in Intel Corp. v. Hamidi.{{cite web |url=https://caselaw.findlaw.com/ca-court-of-appeal/1464627.html|title=INTEL CORPORATION v. HAMIDI |date=10 December 2001 |website=FindLaw |publisher=Court of Appeal, Third District, California}}

His work on "Patenting Speech" offered an examination of patent law and the First Amendment;{{cite journal |title=Patenting Speech |ssrn=223517 |journal=Texas Law Review |volume=79 |year=2000 |last1= Burk|first1= Dan L.}} in a widely discussed article asking "Do Patents Have Gender?"{{cite journal |title= Do Patents Have Gender?|last=Burk |first=Dan L. |journal=American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy and the Law |volume=19 |issue=3 |year=2011 |pages=881–919 |ssrn=1652873}} he examined the "gender gap" in the patent system;{{cite web |url=http://writtendescription.blogspot.com/2011/11/dan-burk-do-patents-have-gender.html|title=Dan Burk: Do Patents Have Gender?|last=Mau Wu |first=Tan |date= 9 November 2011|website=Written Description}}{{cite web |url=http://www.iposgoode.ca/2010/08/yes-patents-do-have-gender/|title=Yes, Patents Do Have Gender|last=John Long |first=Michael |date= 26 August 2010|website=IP Osgoode}}{{cite web |url=http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2013/01/intellectual-property-and-gender.html|title=Intellectual property and gender: a Katonomist writes ...|date= 6 January 2013|website=IP Kat}} and his 2003 article on "Policy Levers in Patent Law," written with Mark A. Lemley, is ranked among the most cited law articles of all time.{{cite journal |url=http://repository.law.umich.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1084&context=mlr |title=The Most-Cited Law Review Articles of All Time |last=Pearse |first=Michelle |date=2012 |journal=Michigan Law Review |volume=110 |issue=8 |pages=1483–1520 }}

His 2009 book with Lemley, The Patent Crisis and How the Courts Can Solve It, has been "highly recommended" by Choice,C. Ross, Burk, Dan L. The patent crisis and how the courts can solve it, 47 CHOICE 980 (2010). the publishing branch of the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL), and has received positive reviews in the Journal of High Technology Law{{cite journal|url=https://www.suffolk.edu/documents/jhtl_book_reviews/stone10.pdf|title=The patent crisis and how the courts can solve it|last=Stone|first=Krista K.|journal=Journal of High Technology Law|access-date=2017-05-16|archive-date=2017-12-29|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171229231456/https://www.suffolk.edu/documents/jhtl_book_reviews/stone10.pdf|url-status=dead}} and the Indian Journal of Intellectual Property Law.{{cite journal |title=Leverage: Review of Burk & Lemley, 'The Patent Crisis and How the Courts Can Solve It'| last=McJohn |first= Stephen M. |date=12 February 2010 |ssrn=1933872 |journal=Indian Journal of Intellectual Property Law}} Burk also testified before Congress regarding this latter work during hearings on the America Invents Act.{{cite web |url=https://judiciary.house.gov/hearing/hearing-on-review-of-recent-judicial-decisions-on-patent-law-0/ |title=Hearing on: "Review of Recent Judicial Decisions on Patent Law", Serial No. 112-20 |author= |date=10 March 2011 |website=judiciary.house.gov |publisher= House of Representatives Judiciary Committee, Chairman Bob Goodlate }}/

• [http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/law/events/burk-lectures.htm Leverhume Public Lectures] at the London School of Economics, March 2015: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQOJ_g9zzcs The Gene Patent Controversy], [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFC3i3LHIxs The Software Patent Puzzle], and [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjYQYqokiko Patenting Information Technologies]

Burk's articles have been published in law reviews and journals including: the Harvard Law Review,{{cite journal |url=https://harvardlawreview.org/2015/03/the-creating-around-paradox/ |title=The "Creating Around" Paradox |last=Burk |first=Dan L. |date=10 March 2015 |volume=128 |journal=Harv. L. Rev. F. |page=118}} the Minnesota Law Review,{{cite journal |url=http://www.minnesotalawreview.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Burk.pdf |title=On the Sociology of Patenting |last=Burk |first=Dan L. |date=December 2016 |journal=Minnesota Law Review }} the Lewis & Clark Law Review,{{cite journal |title=Quantum Patent Mechanics |last=Burk |first=Dan L. |last2= Lemley |first2=Mark A. |date=2005 |publisher=Lewis & Clark Law Review, Vol. 9, p. 29, 2005; Stanford Public Law Working Paper No. 102|ssrn = 628224}} the Northwestern University Law Review,{{cite journal |url=http://scholarlycommons.law.northwestern.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1009&context=nulr_online |title=INVENTING AROUND COPYRIGHT| last=Burk |first=Dan L.|date=2014 |journal=Nw. U. L. Rev. Online |volume=109 |page=64 }} the Stanford Law Review,{{cite journal |url=https://www.stanfordlawreview.org/online/anticipating-patentable-subject-matter/ |title=Anticipating Patentable Subject Matter |last=Burk |first=Dan L. |date=February 2013 |journal=Stanford Law Review }} the National Law Journal,{{cite web |url=http://www.law.com/jsp/nlj/PubArticleNLJ.jsp?id=1202430534638&Dont_tailor_make_patent_act&slreturn=1 |title=Don't tailor make patent act |last=Burk |first=Dan L. |last2=Lemley |first2=Mark A. |date=11 May 2009 |website=nationallawjournal.com |publisher=The National Law Journal }} the Duke Journal of Gender Law & Policy,{{cite web |url=http://scholarship.law.duke.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1301&context=djglp |title=Diversity Levers |last=Burk |first=Dan L.|date=October 2015 |website=scholarship.law.duke.edu |publisher= 23 Duke Journal of Gender Law & Policy 25-43}} and the International Review of Intellectual Property and Competition Law.{{cite journal |title=Are Human Genes Patentable? |journal = International Review of Intellectual Property and Competition Law|volume = 44|issue = 7|pages = 747–749|last=Burk |first=Dan L. |date=20 September 2013 |doi=10.1007/s40319-013-0102-x |url = https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4wv3670k|doi-access=free}} Burk's most recent book with Mark A. Lemley, [http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/P/bo6637375.html The Patent Crisis and How the Courts Can Solve It], was published by the University of Chicago Press in 2009.

A full list of publication is available [http://www.law.uci.edu/faculty/full-time/burk/publications.html here].

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• [http://www.law.uci.edu/faculty/full-time/burk/ University of Irvine School of Law biography]
• [https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Dan_Burk/ Research Gate profile]
• [https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=41670 Social Science Research Network profile]
• Google Scholar profile
• [http://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/P/bo6637375.html/ The Patent Crisis and How We Can Solve It, The University of Chicago Press (2009)]
• [http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/law/events/burk-lectures.htm Leverhume Public Lectures at the London School of Economics, March 2015]

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