{"id":9057,"date":"2015-04-08T18:00:10","date_gmt":"2015-04-09T01:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogschapman.wpenginepowered.com\/law\/2015\/04\/08\/fowler-law-professor-discusses-crowdsourcing-of-better-laws\/"},"modified":"2015-04-08T18:00:10","modified_gmt":"2015-04-09T01:00:10","slug":"fowler-law-professor-discusses-crowdsourcing-of-better-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/law\/2015\/04\/08\/fowler-law-professor-discusses-crowdsourcing-of-better-laws\/","title":{"rendered":"Fowler Law Professor Discusses Legislative Crowdsourcing"},"content":{"rendered":"

You’ve heard of
\nOpen Source<\/em>
\n technology. Legal scholar and innovator Chapman University Fowler School of Law Professor Tom W. Bell asks why laws — our legal operating systems — can’t be thought of in the same way. Professor Bell’s video discussion,  ”
\nForget Politicians: How to Crowdsouce Better Laws<\/a>
\n,” is featured on
\nWatch the Talks<\/em>
\n on voiceandexit.com.
\n <\/p>\n

\"tom-bell-april-8-blog\"<\/a>
\n
\n
\nProfessor
\nTom Bell<\/a>
\n specializes in high-tech legal issues and has written a variety of papers on Intellectual Property and Internet Law. He received his Juris Doctor from the University of Chicago Law School in 1993, where he served both as a member of the
\nUniversity of Chicago Law Review<\/em>
\n and as Articles Editor and cofounder of the University of
\nChicago Legal Roundtable<\/em>
\n. After graduating from law school, Professor Bell joined the Silicon Valley law firm of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati. Professor Bell has appeared on or been quoted in the
\nWall Street Journal<\/em>
\n,
\nCNN<\/em>
\n,
\nLos Angeles Times<\/em>
\n, and many other news sources. He teaches Intellectual Property, Internet Law, Advanced Seminar on Copyright Law, Entertainment Law, International Entertainment Law, Tort Law, Contract Law, and Agency and Partnership.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You’ve heard of Open Source technology. Legal scholar and innovator Chapman University Fowler School of Law Professor Tom W. Bell […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":9063,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"custom_author_name":"","chapman_pin_hero_slider":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-faculty","category-general-news","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9057\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}