[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":9},["ShallowReactive",2],{"person-bio-tom-w-bell":3},{"bio":4},[5,6,7,8],"Tom W. Bell is a leading authority on special jurisdictions and innovative governance models. A professor at Chapman University’s Fowler School of Law, he specialises in intellectual property, internet law, and legal frameworks for private and semi-autonomous cities. Tom has played a pivotal role in shaping governance for special jurisdictions, serving as the lead drafter of constitutions and civil codes for projects such as the Free Society and providing legal-system design consultancy through Archimediates LLC.","He is the author of the influential book Your Next Government? From Nation States to Stateless Nations (2017), which explores how emerging political models, such as Free Private Cities and seasteads, are redefining governance in the 21st century.","His most portable contribution is Ulex, an open-source legal system assembled from restatements and model codes rather than from any one country’s law, so that a new community can adopt a working body of rules on its first day instead of drafting one or borrowing a national code wholesale.","He also helped found the peer-reviewed journal for research on special jurisdictions, and his university has recognised the subject as a field of its own rather than a curiosity.",1788062489870]