John W. Bagby

John W. Bagby is Professor of Information Sciences and Technology and Co-Director of the Institute for Information Policy at The Pennsylvania State University. He received his bachelor’s degree at the University of Kansas, the J.D. degree in law from the University of Tulsa, pursued graduate study in business at New York University - Graduate School of Business and received the M.B.A. degree from the University of Kansas. He is a member of the Missouri and American Bar Associations.

Professor Bagby has taught courses in the law of information technology, privacy and security law, business law, business organizations, entrepreneurship, government regulation, real estate law, securities regulations, commercial law and intellectual property to undergraduates, M.B.A.s and other graduate students at Penn State, the University of Cincinnati, the University of Kansas and the University of Texas at Austin. He has received teaching awards from both undergraduate and graduate student organizations. Additionally, Professor Bagby regularly presents to various executive education programs and in continuing education workshops including the National Association of Securities Dealers.

Professor Bagby's research interests include managing the risk of legal liability in fields of information technology, intellectual property rights, computer law, regulatory process. He has published numerous articles on these topics in the American Business Law Journal, Georgia Law Review, New England Law Review, Journal of Product Liability, The Transportation Journal, The CPA Journal, Securities Regulation Law Journal, Harvard Business Review, Accounting Horizons, Virginia Environmental Law Journal, the Business Lawyer, Business Law Today, National Law Journal, among others. His funded and interdisciplinary research is also published in numerous books, monographs, collective works, and research reports to sponsor. As a research associate at the PA Transportation Institute, he participates with interdisciplinary research teams on sponsored research projects in the areas of tort and product liability reform, tort data management, technology transfer, information science and intelligent transportation systems. He is co-director of the Institute for Information Policy.

Professor Bagby has co-authored numerous college texts and casebooks. He is sole author of the Cyberlaw Handbook for E-Commerce and e-Commerce Law: Issues for Business (2003 West Pub. Co.), co-author of The Legal and Regulatory Environment of e-Business: Law for the Converging Economy (West. 2003). He is a principal co-author on Irwin's Legal and Regulatory Environment of Business, (3rd ed. 1996, Irwin/McGraw-Hill), Irwin's Business Law: Concepts, Analysis Perspectives (3rd ed. 1994 Irwin) and Legal Aspects of the Management Process, (4th ed. 1990, West). He has served as reviewer and staff editor for numerous journals including the American Business Law Journal. He was special editor for the American Business Law Journal's Cyberlaw issue, 2001-2003. He is past president and has served as program chair and secretary of the Midwest Business Law Association. His practice experience includes clerkships for a multi-national oil company and a Wall Street law firm in matters of securities regulation, corporate and commercial law. Professor Bagby served as Visiting Fellow at the Intelligent Transportation Society of America (ITSAm), fall 2000, served as chair of the ITSAm Legal Issues Committee and was Chair of the Am.Bar.Assn's Task Force on 'Bots (database protections project). Professor Bagby has served on numerous college and university committees including chair and membership on the University Faculty Senate, Protection of Human Subjects, honors advisor, Ombudser, Faculty Advisory Committee, the Alumni Society Board of Advisors, General Education Implementation, and the Task Force on Intellectual Property, among others. He served as Interim Ph.D. Program Advisor for the School of Information Sciences and Technology.

The following is a list of major current research projects in progress by John W. Bagby: online contracting and contract performance for private and public sector transactions; accommodating law to facilitate electronic agency; determining an optimal balance between strong intellectual property rights and the public domain; the merger of dns governance system into United States trademark, including the domestic and international barriers; liability risk management for service, product and software suppliers; industrial organization and antitrust aspects of standards setting; application of insider trading jurisprudence to non-corporate/financial information; document retention, security and confidential information access; development of predictable, reasonable and compliance-capable privacy law, regulations and policies in the major sectors of financial services, healthcare, online activity, law enforcement and counter-terrorism; the valuation of intellectual property, information, data and intangibles, and the audit perspectives thereof; business modeling for eGovernment systems; nature of legal/regulatory/public policy information and databases: their structure, access, retrieval and use; links between IT system capabilities and employment law; identity theft relationship to privacy and security; the Sarbanes-Oxley Act as a model with impact on a confluence of IT controls for publicly-traded and privately-held firms, not-for-profit enterprises and government agencies; the optimal licensing of content, software and other intangibles, including comparison of the open source model vs. traditional contractual approach; cyber-forensics law – constraints and opportunities for electronic data discovery (EDD) from law and regulation constraining investigations, pre-trial discovery and admissibility of such evidence, including expert witnesses qualification in the underlying electronic forensic disciplines.