Dan Burk Wins Fulbright Cyber Security

Award

The rise of internet technology has transformed the daily lives of people for the better. From
education and commerce to healthcare and national security, cyberspace touches on nearly every
sector. As the Internet has grown, however, its fragility and vulnerabilities have become evident:
corporations, government agencies, national infrastructure and individuals have all been victims
of cyber-attacks. That is why securing cyberspace and maintaining an open, interoperable,
secure, and reliable Internet is vital to our economy and security.

This award is designed to enable academic or professional experts in cyber security to conduct
research, pursue professional development, and/or assess best practice at any UK institution for a
period of three to six months. Research outputs should produce benefits of significance to the
larger cyber security community.

Dan Burk, Chancellors Professor of law at UCI, has been awarded a prestigious Fulbright U.S.
Scholar cybersecurity grant to conduct research at the Oxford Internet Institute in the United
Kingdom this fall. An internationally prominent authority on legal and social issues related to
high technology, Burk will study Statutory Protocols for Access to Secured Digital Content,
specifically, the U.K.s administrative procedures for consumer access to encrypted information.
This is Burks second Fulbright award. His previous grant in 2011 was to research German and
European Union comparative biotechnology patent processes at the Max Planck Institute for
Innovation & Competition. A founding faculty member of UCIs School of Law, Burk is among
the most cited authors in the U.S. on intellectual property. I am enormously grateful to UCI
Law and the Fulbright program for this opportunity to collaborate with some of the worlds top
internet research experts, Burk said. He is one of more than 800 U.S. citizens who will teach,
conduct research and provide expertise abroad for the 2017-18 academic year through the
Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program.