Prof. Tom W. Bell earned a J.D. from the University of Chicago, practiced law in Silicon Valley and Washington, D.C., and served as a policy director for the Cato Institute before joining the faculty of Chapman University Fowler School of Law in 1998. His scholarship and consulting focuses on special jurisdictions, a topic explored in his book, Your Next Government? From the Nation State to Stateless Nations (Cambridge University Press 2018). He created Ulex, the open source legal system, used in Próspera ZEDE’s Roatán Common Law code and the Catawba Indian Nation’s Digital Economic Zone. Bell serves as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Special Jurisdictions and advises The Seasteading Institute (pro bono), Pronomos Capital, Free Society Project, and others.