Thomas W. Bell

Prof. Thomas W. Bell

Professor, Dale E. Fowler School of Law, Chapman University

Topics: Telecommunications & Electronic Media • Civil Rights • Intellectual Property • Free Speech & Election Law • International & National Security Law • Labor & Employment Law

Professor Bell joined the faculty of Fowler School of Law in 1998. Professor Bell specializes in high-tech legal issues and has written a variety of works on intellectual property and Internet law, including the book, Intellectual Privilege: Copyright, Common Law, and the Common Good (2014). He received his Juris Doctor from the University of Chicago Law School in 1993, where he served both as a member of the University of Chicago Law Review and as Articles Editor and cofounder of the University of Chicago Legal Roundtable. After graduating from law school, Professor Bell joined the Silicon Valley law firm of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati. He entered teaching in 1995, when he became an Assistant Professor of Law in the Law and Technology Program at the University of Dayton School of Law. During a one year leave of absence from that school, and just prior to joining the Fowler School of Law faculty, he served as Director of Telecommunications and Technology Studies at the Cato Institute in Washington, D.C. Professor Bell joined the faculty of Fowler School of Law in 1998.  In addition to writing a steady stream of scholarly works, Professor Bell has appeared on or been quoted in the Wall Street JournalCNNEconomist, Los Angeles Times, and many other news sources, and starred in several online videos addressing timely legal issues.

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