Andrew Bell was made silk in 2006 whilst in his 11th year at the Bar. He has a national practice and has appeared in more than 20 High Court appeals including Pfeiffer v Rogerson, Lange v Australian Broadcasting Corporation and Povey v Qantas Airways. He specializes in all matters of private international law and transnational litigation and arbitration, in which areas he has taught and written extensively. His practice also includes shipping, public and constitutional law, corporate and commercial litigation and general appellate matters. In 2009 and 2010, he was named in the Litigation and Arbitration Dispute Resolution categories in the annual AFR survey of top Australian lawyers.
Specific areas of practice include:
- Administrative & public law
- Appellate practice
- Arbitration
- Commercial law
- Constitutional law
- Equity
- Insurance law
- Professional liability
- Public & private international law
- Sports law
- Trade & transport law
He was a University Medallist in both Economic History and Law at the University of Sydney and was the Rhodes Scholar for New South Wales in 1990. At Oxford, he won the Vinerian Scholarship for first place in the BCL and was also awarded a D.Phil which formed the basis for his subsequent book Forum Shopping in Transnational Litigation (Oxford University Press, 2003). He has recently completed a new edition of Nygh’s Conflict of Laws in Australia with Professor Martin Davies and Justice Paul Brereton. In 1990-1991 he was Associate to Sir Anthony Mason.
B.A. (Hons) LLB (Hons) (Syd)
B.C.L. (Oxon) D. Phil (Oxon)
Admitted as Barrister and Solicitor of the High Court of New Zealand
Adjunct Professor of Law, University of Sydney Law School
Senior Fellow, University of Melbourne Law School
Adviser, American Law Institute Project on Transnational Civil Procedure
Fellow, St Paul's College, University of Sydney
Director, Sculpture by the Sea Inc
- Forum Shopping and Venue in Transnational Litigation (Oxford University Press, 2003)
- Nygh's Conflict of Laws in Australia (LexisNexis, 2010)
- Bar News (Editor)
Andrew S Bell CV
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