Professor Tom W. Bell earned his J.D. from the University of Chicago in 1993, then practiced law in Silicon Valley and Washington, D.C. before serving as a policy director at the Cato Institute. In 1998, he joined the faculty of Chapman University, Fowler School of Law, where he teaches all of the first-year common law courses and electives in high-tech and intellectual property law. Bell has published papers on copyright, Internet law, polycentric law, prediction markets, and the Third Amendment (that’s the one about quartering troops). His books include “Intellectual Privilege: Copyright, Common Law, and the Common Good” (Mercatus, 2014) and “Your Next Government? From Nation State to Stateless Association” (forthcoming from Cambridge University Press in 2017). Through Archimediate LLC, Bell advises companies developing special economic zones on the design, installation, and support of legal systems.
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