Abraham Bell
Karin Spidel
kspidel@SanDiego.edu
(619) 260-2962
Arlene Penticoff
apenticoff@SanDiego.edu
(619) 260-6843
Professor of Law
- SJD, 2004, Harvard University
- JD, 1993, University of Chicago
- BA, 1989, University of Chicago
Areas of Expertise
Trademark Law, Property, Land Use Planning, Copyright Law, Intellectual Property, Real Property and Real Estate Transactions
Professional Experience
Bell clerked for Justice Mishael Cheshin of the Supreme Court of Israel and for the High Court of Justice Department within the Israeli State Attorney’s office. He was a visiting professor at the University of Connecticut Law School and Fordham University Law School. He is a member of the faculty of law at Bar Ilan University. Professor Bell joined the USD School of Law faculty in 2009.
Honors and Affiliations
Bell served as an editor for the University of Chicago Law Review. At the University of Chicago, he won the Mulroy Prize for Excellence in Apellate Advocacy with Distinction. He was named an Alon Fellow by the Israeli Council for Higher Education in 2006. Bell is a member of the Order of the Coif.
Scholarly Work
- Propertizing Fair Use, 107 Virginia Law Review 1255 (2021) (with Parchomovsky)
- Restructuring Copyright Infringement, 98 Texas Law Review 679 (2020) (with Parchomovsky)
- The Counter-Revolutionary Nation-State Law, 26 Israel Studies 240 (2020)
- The Privacy Interest in Property, 167 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 869 (2019) (with Parchomovsky)
- Property in the Kibbutz: Old and New, in Legal Strategies for the Development and Protection of Communal Property (Ting Xu & Alison Clarke eds., Oxford University Press 2018) (with Parchomovsky & Weitz)
- Partial Takings, 117 Columbia Law Review 2043 (2017) (with Parchomovsky)
- The Dual Grant Theory of Fair Use, 83 University of Chicago Law Review 1051 (2016) (with Parchomovsky)
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