He is also an adjunct professor at the University of Sydney, and from 2019 was the President of the New South Wales Court of Appeal.

The win was after an eight-day tournament organised by the American Whig-Cliosophic Society of Princeton University, involving 116 teams from 18 nations.

[7] In 1990, Bell was the Rhodes Scholar for New South Wales and undertook a Bachelor of Civil Law at the University of Oxford.

[6] His thesis formed the basis for his book Forum Shopping and Venue in Transnational Litigation published by Oxford University Press.

[4] He was admitted as a barrister in 1995 and read with Phil Greenwood and Paul Brereton (who later became a Supreme Court Justice).

[9] His notable legal cases have included acting for former New Zealand Prime Minister David Lange against the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, 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.

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 non-for-profit cultural institution regarded as the peak body for sculpture in Australia.

[13] On 9 May 2023, he opened the 58th Parliament of New South Wales while the Governor was in the United Kingdom for the coronation of Charles III.

[14] His lead judgments include Searle v Commonwealth of Australia, an important case on the constitutional doctrine of "fettering" of discretionary powers of Government.,[15][16] R v Taylor concerning tendency evidence, Graylag Goose v Garuda concerning sovereign immunity, and Nyunt v First Property concerning the recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments.