Stephen Ware
@profstephenware.bsky.social
University of Kansas Law professor: Alternative Dispute Resolution (arbitration, mediation, settlement negotiation) Contracts Commercial Debt Bankruptcy Insolvency
Dad, travel, greenery, Catan
You can call me Steve
Dad, travel, greenery, Catan
You can call me Steve
Yes, the world is largely governed by strength but much US strength comes from embodying, albeit imperfectly, freedom, democracy & prosperity all of which attract allies who make the whole greater than the sum of the parts
January 9, 2026 at 5:40 PM
Yes, the world is largely governed by strength but much US strength comes from embodying, albeit imperfectly, freedom, democracy & prosperity all of which attract allies who make the whole greater than the sum of the parts
If you’ll be in New Orleans for #AALS2026 come join Thursday’s discussion of consumers’ and workers’ adhesive #arbitration agreements with Amy Schmitz Richard Frankel Maria Glover Ron Aronovsky, and me.
#labor #employment #consumer #contracts #ADR
#labor #employment #consumer #contracts #ADR
January 6, 2026 at 12:19 AM
If you’ll be in New Orleans for #AALS2026 come join Thursday’s discussion of consumers’ and workers’ adhesive #arbitration agreements with Amy Schmitz Richard Frankel Maria Glover Ron Aronovsky, and me.
#labor #employment #consumer #contracts #ADR
#labor #employment #consumer #contracts #ADR
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Okay, I laughed: “Maduro Requests Lindsay Halligan to Prosecute Him” [Andy Borowitz]
January 4, 2026 at 3:20 AM
Okay, I laughed: “Maduro Requests Lindsay Halligan to Prosecute Him” [Andy Borowitz]
Most interesting of the 50 posts I’ve read on this website this morning:
Remember that there is a legitimately elected president of Venezuela: Edmundo Gonzalez. He won the election in 2024.
January 3, 2026 at 3:30 PM
Most interesting of the 50 posts I’ve read on this website this morning:
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Not bad, actually - except for the war bit.
December 31, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Not bad, actually - except for the war bit.
Friendly suggestion for the future is to acknowledge correlation
December 29, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Friendly suggestion for the future is to acknowledge correlation
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I count 10 cities in 2025 that are on track to have the fewest murders since at least 1970. Newark is on pace to have the fewest murders since 1956 (though only have data through Oct this year) and San Francisco is on pace to have the fewest murders since 1942.
December 23, 2025 at 7:06 PM
I count 10 cities in 2025 that are on track to have the fewest murders since at least 1970. Newark is on pace to have the fewest murders since 1956 (though only have data through Oct this year) and San Francisco is on pace to have the fewest murders since 1942.
Today may be setting the new single-day record for most spam emails and texts
December 23, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Today may be setting the new single-day record for most spam emails and texts
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Terrifying headline if you don’t realize they are sports teams.
December 19, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Terrifying headline if you don’t realize they are sports teams.
Settling litigation:
“If our opponent is to be made to comply with our will, we must place him in a situation which is more oppressive to him than the sacrifice which we demand”
my negotiation strategy with russia is kill more russians
December 17, 2025 at 4:59 AM
Settling litigation:
From “Child Labor in the United States” by Robert Whaples
December 15, 2025 at 9:07 PM
From “Child Labor in the United States” by Robert Whaples
Meathead and Spinal Tap
December 15, 2025 at 5:11 AM
Meathead and Spinal Tap
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The US economy is imperfect but most people are consuming more than ever before. In general, America is more affordable than ever before. Even the most notable exception - housing - is complicated. Panic over "affordability" is reactionary nostalgia, given a respectable policy veneer.
Nope. Doomer nostalgia about a fake past in which "all families were single earners & they all owned homes!" is the reactionary sentiment. Telling the truth is always better for the left.
December 8, 2025 at 9:01 PM
The US economy is imperfect but most people are consuming more than ever before. In general, America is more affordable than ever before. Even the most notable exception - housing - is complicated. Panic over "affordability" is reactionary nostalgia, given a respectable policy veneer.
Good idea! I signed. I hope in the next few years for a program on judicial selection and retention.
December 3, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Good idea! I signed. I hope in the next few years for a program on judicial selection and retention.
Viscerally negative and personal reactions to this on Bluesky suggest some folks’ distaste for profit hungry tech bros may distract from assessing prediction markets’ value at making predictions that help a wide variety of people pursuing a wide variety of goals
The co-founder of Kalshi says: " The long-term vision is to financialize everything and create a tradable asset out of any difference in opinion."
December 3, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Viscerally negative and personal reactions to this on Bluesky suggest some folks’ distaste for profit hungry tech bros may distract from assessing prediction markets’ value at making predictions that help a wide variety of people pursuing a wide variety of goals
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who decided to call it Secret Santa when Nondisclosure Claus was right there
December 1, 2025 at 10:55 PM
who decided to call it Secret Santa when Nondisclosure Claus was right there
Great location for 1L study groups:
November 30, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Great location for 1L study groups:
Thanks, and not sure which way this cuts, but picture 2 nerdy, white high school boys in an audience otherwise consisting of middle-aged Black people in their Sunday best
November 28, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Thanks, and not sure which way this cuts, but picture 2 nerdy, white high school boys in an audience otherwise consisting of middle-aged Black people in their Sunday best
Introduce yourself with five concerts you’ve seen:
James Brown opened by Wilson Pickett
The Who opened by the Clash
Springsteen
Nirvana
Melissa Etheridge opened by Jewel
James Brown opened by Wilson Pickett
The Who opened by the Clash
Springsteen
Nirvana
Melissa Etheridge opened by Jewel
Introduce yourself with five concerts you’ve seen:
1. Violent Femmes
2. Ozomatli (before they were famous)
3. REM (at height of fame)
4. @eve6.bsky.social
5. Willie Nelson (at Houston Rodeo)
1. Violent Femmes
2. Ozomatli (before they were famous)
3. REM (at height of fame)
4. @eve6.bsky.social
5. Willie Nelson (at Houston Rodeo)
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've seen:
(These are my last four and the next one)
1. Simple Minds
2. Sam Fender
3. @thomasdolby.bsky.social
4. Couch
5. Ben Watt and @traceythorn.bsky.social
(These are my last four and the next one)
1. Simple Minds
2. Sam Fender
3. @thomasdolby.bsky.social
4. Couch
5. Ben Watt and @traceythorn.bsky.social
November 28, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Introduce yourself with five concerts you’ve seen:
James Brown opened by Wilson Pickett
The Who opened by the Clash
Springsteen
Nirvana
Melissa Etheridge opened by Jewel
James Brown opened by Wilson Pickett
The Who opened by the Clash
Springsteen
Nirvana
Melissa Etheridge opened by Jewel
Literally dividing the pie in a way that could maximize total value, which is often metaphorically described as “growing the pie“
November 28, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Literally dividing the pie in a way that could maximize total value, which is often metaphorically described as “growing the pie“
Feeling older now
We are now further away from the theatrical release of Raiders of the Lost Ark (June 12, 1981) than it was from the year it takes place in (1936). We have reached the Indiana Jones event horizon.
November 28, 2025 at 4:12 AM
Feeling older now
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publishing isn’t driven by some kind of shadowy business interest but almost entirely by increasingly cutthroat competition for eyeballs in the attention economy. stories that validate people’s resentment and fear, their pessimism, that predict doom, that tell people they’re victims - they perform
Point taken, but would you not be curious as to why all those sources are saying that? Like, what’s in it for all the mainstream and internet media to gin up a falsehood that everything is less affordable? Wouldn’t convincing everyone that money is tight be what businesses *wouldn’t* want to do?
November 27, 2025 at 5:00 AM
publishing isn’t driven by some kind of shadowy business interest but almost entirely by increasingly cutthroat competition for eyeballs in the attention economy. stories that validate people’s resentment and fear, their pessimism, that predict doom, that tell people they’re victims - they perform
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If Nvidia had just stuck to soaps and moisturizers they probably wouldn't be mired in all this mess.
November 24, 2025 at 7:50 PM
If Nvidia had just stuck to soaps and moisturizers they probably wouldn't be mired in all this mess.