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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.
Bell is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law.<ref name="Lawyer's Weekly"/> 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<ref name="nsw.gov.au"/>.
==Sculpture by the Sea==
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Bell was a long-time board member of the Sydney Sculpture by the Sea exhibition. He was a board member from 2006, and became its chair between 2010 and 2016. He is credited with being instrumental in developing the event from an organisation barely able to stage two large exhibits in Sydney and Perth, to a well established body regarded as the peak body for sculpture in Australia. <ref name="Sculpture">{{cite web |title=Governors of Sculpture by the Sea |url=https://sculpturebythesea.com/about/life-governors-of-sculpture-by-the-sea/ |website=Sculpture by the sea |accessdate=21 July 2020}}</ref> He introduced key changes such as a universal minimum income for artists in the Sydney exhibition, and later covering the costs of the heavy installation equipment for artists in both Sydney and Perth. He also developed initiatives such as "Sculpture at Barangaroo", held in 2016 and 2017, as well as the Sydney Sculpture Conference at the Sydney Opera House.
Bell would attend opening nights to Cottesloe wearing an Hawaiian shirt. In 2011 he escorted Crown Prince Frederik and Crown Princess Mary at they Sydney exhibition. Bell was later alleged to have said that his meeting with the Crown Princess was the highlight of their trip to Australia in 2011. At the 20th anniversary dinner for Sculpture by the Sea in 2016, Bell took the stage with a photograph of the Crown Princess with himself looming in the background, and exclaimed how delighted the princess looked at seeing him<ref name="nsw.gov.au"/>.
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