Bell received a
B.A. cum laude from
Harvard and a
J.D. from
Stanford, where he was notes editor of the
Stanford Law Review and a member of the
Order of the Coif. He
clerked for Judge
Amalya L. Kearse of the
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and for
U.S. Supreme Court Justice
Byron R. White and then practiced with
Sullivan & Cromwell in
New York City. Before coming to Rutgers in 1994, he served as senior litigation counsel and, earlier, as Assistant
U.S. Attorney (Civil Division) in the
U.S. Attorney's Office for the
Southern District of New York. Bell has written numerous articles which have appeared in several journals, including the
Stanford Law Review, the
Texas Law Review, the
North Carolina Law Review, the
Ohio State Law Review, the
George Washington Law Review, the
Pittsburgh Law Review, the
Federal Communications Law Journal, and the
Journal of Law and Politics. He has been an invited speaker at the Columbia Legal Theory Workshop, the University of Illinois Faculty Colloquium, and the Administrative and Regulatory Law Section of the
American Bar Association, and has been a visiting professor at
Columbia Law School and
The George Washington University Law School. Bell currently serves as the Dean's representative on the New Jersey Law Revision Commission. He is a member of the Governing Council of the ABA Section on
Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice, vice-chair of the section's
Constitutional Law and Separation of Powers Committee, and a member of the section's Interstate Compact APA Project. He is also active in the
Association of American Law Schools — he has recently served as chair of its Section on Defamation and Privacy Law and its Section on Legislation, and is currently chair-elect of the Section on
Administrative Law. == See also ==