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==Legal Career==
In 1990-1991, Bell was the Associate to the then [[Chief Justice of Australia|Chief Justice of the High Court]], [[Anthony Mason (judge)|Anthony Mason]]. It was there he met his wife, Joanna Bird, the Associate to Justice [[Michael McHugh]].<ref name="nsw.gov.au"/> He was admitted as a barrister in 1995 and read with Phil Greenwood in Eleven Wentworth chambers. He took silk in 2006 as a Senior Counsel<ref name="St Paul's"/>. He had a broad national practice and appeared in both trials and appeals, as well as an extensive international arbitration practice. He appeared in more than 30 [[High Court of Australia | High Court]] appeals.
He was a Treasurer and then Senior Vice President of the [[New South Wales Bar Association]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://elevenwentworth.com/portfolio/andrew-s-bell-sc/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190131023200/http://elevenwentworth.com/portfolio/andrew-s-bell-sc/|url-status=dead|archive-date=31 January 2019|title=Andrew S. Bell SC - Eleven Wentworth|date=31 January 2019}}</ref> He was also a senior vice president of the NSW Bar Association, and a past chairman of the Professional Conduct Committee of that Association <ref name="Lawyer's Weekly"/>. He also served as treasurer of the Association and was for many years the editor of that Association's journal titled "Bar News".
He was twice the chairman of his chambers, Eleven Wentworth Chambers<ref name="Lawyer's Weekly"/>.
In 2008 he was appointed an Adjunct Professor at Sydney University Law School where he taught Private International Law. He is a co-author of Nygh's Conflict of Laws in Australia, a leading legal text on the subject.<ref name="Lawyer's Weekly"/
Bell is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law.
His notable legal cases have included acting for Qantas against Rolls Royce, the Rinehart children in trust litigation against Gina Rinehart, and for Channel 7 in relation to cases arising from Australian Federal Police raids.
==Sculpture by the Sea==
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