Smeal College Professor To Present Paper On Privacy Issues At National Conference

Smeal College Professor To Present Paper On Privacy Issues At National Conference

John W. Bagby of Penn State's Smeal College of Business Administration will present a paper on privacy at an upcoming legal conference.

Bagby is professor of business law in Penn State's Smeal College of Business Administration. He will present a paper during the Intelligent Transportation Society of America's "Big Brother by the Bay: Protecting ITS Privacy and Enhancing Location Commerce." The conference takes place April 5-6 in San Francisco, CA.

The Washington, D.C.-based ITS America fosters public/private partnerships to increase the safety and efficiency of surface transportation through the application of advanced technologies. Congress mandated ITS America in 1991 to coordinate the development and deployment of intelligent transportation systems in the United States.

Bagby is chairman of the Intelligent Transportation Society of America's (ITS America) Legal Issues Committee. The conference will feature experts from academia, the legal community, industry and public sectors, and privacy advocacy organizations. The first day, dedicated to location privacy, will explore pending privacy legislation and regulation as well as self-enforcement regimes. The second day will focus on intellectual property rights, telecom regulations, and digital signatures.

During his research sabbatical in the fall 2000, Bagby shepherded the ITS America Privacy Principles through its passage. The Privacy Principles were recently adopted by the United State's Department of Transportation as the definitive guidelines for using landline and wireless telephony for traveler information services (e.g., 511).
Bagby's areas of expertise include cyberlaw, liability risk management, securities regulations, regulatory process and policy, and business organizations. A noted researcher and scholar, Bagby has published articles in Harvard Business Review, American Business Law Journal, the Business Lawyer, Georgia Law Review, New England Law Review, Journal of Product Liability, The Transportation Journal, The CPA Journal, Securities Regulation Law Journal, Accounting Horizons, ITS Quarterly, the Business Lawyer, Business Law Today and the Virginia Environmental Law Journal among others. He has published numerous books or parts of books including Irwin's Legal and Regulatory Environment of Business (Third Edition), Legal Aspects of the Management Process (Fourth Edition), and the forthcoming West's Cyberlaw .

He is serving as editor of an upcoming special "Cyberlaw" issue for The American Business Law Journal (ABLJ), the top scholarly journal of the Academy of Legal Studies in Business (ALSB).

Bagby has completed funded research projects in liability risk management and technology transfer for numerous sponsors including the National Academy of Sciences, National Research Council, Transportation Research Board and the Applied Research Lab. He is a Research Associate at the Pennsylvania Transportation Institute (PTI) and a Faculty Associate of the eBusiness Research Center (eBRC).

He teaches various business law courses to undergraduates and MBA students including regulatory process, business organizations, securities regulation, and intellectual property. He has also chaired thesis committees for Ph.D. and university scholars in the Schreyer Honors College. He has taught in executive education and continuing legal education seminars.

Bagby has served as reviewer and staff editor for numerous journals including the American Business Law Journal. He is past president and has served as program chair and secretary of the Midwest Academy of Legal Studies in Business and in the House of Delegates of the Academy of Legal Studies in Business. His practice experience includes clerkships for a multi-national oil company and with a Wall Street law firm in matters of securities regulation, energy regulation and commercial law.