Dan L. Burk

Oppenheimer, Wolff & Donnelly Professor of Law

436 Mondale Hall
229–19th Ave. South
Minneapolis, MN 55455

612-626-8726

burkx006@umn.edu

Stanford Law School, J.S.M.
Arizona State University, J.D.
Northwestern University, M.S.
Brigham Young University, B.S.

Professor Dan L. Burk is an internationally prominent authority on the law of intellectual property, who specializes in the areas of cyberlaw and biotechnology. He teaches courses in copyright, patent, and electronic commerce, and is the author of numerous papers on the legal and societal impact of new technologies, including articles on scientific misconduct, regulation of biotechnology, and intellectual property implications of global computer networks.

Professor Burk joined the Law School faculty in the fall of 2000 as Professor of Law and Vance K. Opperman Research Scholar. During 2001-2002, he held the Julius Davis Chair in Law. He currently holds the Oppenheimer, Wolff & Donnelly Professorship in Law. He has been closely involved in the development of the Joint Degree Program in Law, Health, and the Life Sciences, and was recently named a Residential Fellow at the University of Minnesota Institute for Advanced Study.

Prior to his arrival at the University of Minnesota, Professor Burk taught at Seton Hall University in New Jersey. From 1991 to 1993 he was a Teaching Fellow at Stanford Law School. He has also taught as a visitor at Cornell Law School; Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California, Berkeley; the University of Toronto Faculty of Law; University of Tilburg Law Faculty; the Munich Intellectual Property Law Center at the Max-Planck-Institut für Geistiges Eigentum, Wettbewerbs und Steuerrecht; George Mason University School of Law; Cardozo Law School at Yeshiva University; the Ohio State University Programme at Oxford; and the Program for Management in the Network Economy at the Universita Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Piacenza, Italy.

Professor Burk holds a B.S. in microbiology (1985) from Brigham Young University, an M.S. in molecular biology and biochemistry (1987) from Northwestern University, a J.D. (1990) from Arizona State University, and a J.S.M. (1994) from Stanford University. He is a member of the Order of the Coif and has served as a legal advisor to a variety of private, governmental, and intergovernmental organizations, including the American Civil Liberties Union Committee on Patent Policy, the OECD Committee on Consumer Protection, and the United States State Department Working Group on Intellectual Property, Interoperability, and Standards.