Research Specialties

Technology and the Law, Law and Economics, and Government Regulation

Selected Research Publications

• Chumney, Wade M., David L. Baumer, Roby Sawyers, “Patents Gone Wild: An Ethical Examination and Legal Analysis of Tax-Related and Tax Strategy Patents,” accepted American Business Law Journal, February, 2009.
• Hiller, Janine S., Baumer, David L., and Wade M. Chumney, “Due Diligence on the Run: Business Lessons Derived from FTC Actions to Enforce Core Security Principles,” Idaho Law Review, forthcoming.
• Sawyers, Roby, Wade Chumney, and David L. Baumer, “When Worlds Collide: Applying the Nonobviousness and Novelty Requirements of Patent Law to Tax Strategy Patents,” Journal of Legal Tax Research, accepted, Sept. 2008.
• Chumney, Wade, David L. Baumer, Roby Sawyers, “Patents Gone Wild: An Empirical Examination and Policy Analysis of Tax-Related and Tax Strategy Patents,” Refereed Proceedings, Academy of Legal Studies in Business, (Aug. 2008).
• Baumer, David L., Iyengar, Raghavan, Moffie, Robert P., Tower, Ralph, CEO Pay and Accounting Choice in Oil and Gas Firms, 26(3) Petroleum Accounting and Financial Management Journal 84 (Winter 2007).
• Baumer, David L., J.C. Poindexter, Julie B. Earp, “Can Regulation of Distribution of Pharmaceutical Products Coexist with Advances in Information Technology?” 11(2) Journal of Internet Law 1 (August 2007) .
• Otto, Paul N., Annie I. Anton, and David L. Baumer, “The ChoicePoint Dilemma: How Data Brokers Should Handle the Privacy of Personal Information,” 5(5) IEEE Privacy and Security 15 (2007).
• Poindexter, J.C., Julia B. Earp, David L. Baumer, “An Experimental Economics Approach toward Quantifying Online Privacy Choices,” with Julie Earp and JC Poindexter, 8 Information Systems Frontiers 363 (2006).
• Tower, Ralph B., Robert P. Moffie, David L. Baumer, “The New Streamlined Sales Tax: Understanding the Challenges, Maximizing the Rewards,” 21(3) Internal Auditor 3(May/June, 2006).
• Handfield, Robert H. and D.L. Baumer, “Managing Conflict of Interest Issues in Purchasing,” 42(3) Journal of Supply Chain Management 41(Summer, 2006).
• Moffie, Robert, D.L. Baumer, Ralph B. Tower, “Identity Theft and Data Security,” 20(5) Internal Auditor 29 (Sept./Oct. 2005).
• Baumer, D.L., J.C. Poindexter, and J.B. Earp, “Student Participation in Experimental Economics,” Vol. 4(1) The Technology Report 14 (Fall 2005).
• Annie Anton, Quingfeng He, and David L. Baumer, “The Complexity Underlying JetBlue’s Privacy Policy Violations,” Vol. 2(6) IEEE Security and Privacy 12 (Nov./Dec. 2004).
• David L. Baumer, Julie B. Earp, and J.C. Poindexter, “Meaningful and Meaningless Choices in Cyberspace,” Vol. 7(11) Journal of Internet Law 3 (2004).
• David L. Baumer, Julie B. Earp, and J.C. Poindexter, “Internet Privacy Law: A Comparison between the United States and the European Union,” 23(5) Computers and Security 400 (2004).
• G. Young, H. Sapienza, and D. Baumer, “The Influence of Flexibility in Interorganizational Relationships on the Productivity of Knowledge,” Vol. 56 Journal of Business Research 443 (2003).
• Julia Earp and David Baumer, “Innovative Web Use to Learn about Consumer Behavior and Online Privacy, 46 (No. 4) Communications of the ACM 81 (April 2003).
• David L. Baumer, Julie B. Earp, and Pamela Evers, “Tit for Tat in Cyberspace: Consumer and Web Site Responses to Anarchy in the Market for Personal Information,” Vol. 4(2) Journal of Law and Technology 217 (Spring, 2003).