Tom W. Bell

Professor Tom W. Bell earned his J.D. from the University of Chicago, then practiced law in Silicon Valley and Washington, D.C. before joining the faculty of Chapman University Fowler School of Law in Orange County, California. He there teaches all of the first-year common law courses and electives in business, high-tech, and IP law. Bell has published widely on special jurisdictions, copyrights, Internet law, prediction markets, and the Third Amendment (the one about quartering troops). His books include "Intellectual Privilege: Copyright, Common Law, and the Common Good" (Mercatus 2014) and "Your Next Government? From the Nation State to Stateless Nations" (Cambridge University Press 2018). As a consultant, Bell has an active practice designing, installing, and supporting legal systems for special jurisdictions.