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
What reduces deaths from climate change? Economic growth, much driven by tech—including mobile phones, crop breeding, vaccines, and yes, AI.
By Bill Gates  link in comment
By Bill Gates  link in comment
October 28, 2025 at 1:54 PM
What reduces deaths from climate change? Economic growth, much driven by tech—including mobile phones, crop breeding, vaccines, and yes, AI.
By Bill Gates  link in comment
By Bill Gates  link in comment
Interesting corporate #arbitration post,
including a Delaware law that makes me wonder about FAA preemption
including a Delaware law that makes me wonder about FAA preemption
September 11, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Interesting corporate #arbitration post,
including a Delaware law that makes me wonder about FAA preemption
including a Delaware law that makes me wonder about FAA preemption
Good morning #SEALS2025!
Nice place to present my research on #arbitration agreements in #bankruptcy and other #insolvency cases and to learn about several other areas of law from friends ranging from University of Kansas School of Law colleagues to international visitors
Nice place to present my research on #arbitration agreements in #bankruptcy and other #insolvency cases and to learn about several other areas of law from friends ranging from University of Kansas School of Law colleagues to international visitors
July 31, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Good morning #SEALS2025!
Nice place to present my research on #arbitration agreements in #bankruptcy and other #insolvency cases and to learn about several other areas of law from friends ranging from University of Kansas School of Law colleagues to international visitors
Nice place to present my research on #arbitration agreements in #bankruptcy and other #insolvency cases and to learn about several other areas of law from friends ranging from University of Kansas School of Law colleagues to international visitors
July 22, 2025 at 1:33 PM
10-time All-Star Steve Garvey asked "As a professor at #KULaw, do you do anything with #arbitration?", so we discussed his Supreme Court case, MLB Players Assn. v. Garvey, 532 U.S. 504 (2001).
July 18, 2025 at 6:44 PM
10-time All-Star Steve Garvey asked "As a professor at #KULaw, do you do anything with #arbitration?", so we discussed his Supreme Court case, MLB Players Assn. v. Garvey, 532 U.S. 504 (2001).
House prices, interest rates, federal deficit, tariffs, immigration
July 16, 2025 at 3:00 PM
House prices, interest rates, federal deficit, tariffs, immigration
Collecting money judgments is an important and interesting area of law I teach every year, so interested to see cross border debt collection (judgment enforcement) in today’s The Wall Street Journal
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June 25, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Collecting money judgments is an important and interesting area of law I teach every year, so interested to see cross border debt collection (judgment enforcement) in today’s The Wall Street Journal
gift link
www.wsj.com/business/sex...
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www.wsj.com/business/sex...
Balance is of course the trait most associated with Stalin, who was known for wanting young people to be exposed to a variety of ideological views
June 6, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Balance is of course the trait most associated with Stalin, who was known for wanting young people to be exposed to a variety of ideological views
The problem here is the over-borrowing, because trade (comparative advantage) is in fact the recipe for prosperity
May 11, 2025 at 6:26 PM
The problem here is the over-borrowing, because trade (comparative advantage) is in fact the recipe for prosperity
University of Chicago Law School reunion weekend – – if you’ll be here, please DM me
May 2, 2025 at 9:43 PM
University of Chicago Law School reunion weekend – – if you’ll be here, please DM me
Celebrating May Day by reading an intercreditor agreement (as one does) and appreciating the care in defining “will” to mean “shall”
May 2, 2025 at 2:02 AM
Celebrating May Day by reading an intercreditor agreement (as one does) and appreciating the care in defining “will” to mean “shall”
Curious what folks think of this reply
April 13, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Curious what folks think of this reply
The Federal #Arbitration Act is not broad enough.
Repeal its "Arising out of" requirement to enforce MORE arbitration agreements.
No, this is not an April Fools!
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Repeal its "Arising out of" requirement to enforce MORE arbitration agreements.
No, this is not an April Fools!
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
April 1, 2025 at 11:38 PM
The Federal #Arbitration Act is not broad enough.
Repeal its "Arising out of" requirement to enforce MORE arbitration agreements.
No, this is not an April Fools!
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Repeal its "Arising out of" requirement to enforce MORE arbitration agreements.
No, this is not an April Fools!
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Thx to Rick Bales & Jill Gross for so capably leading dozens of scholars on this marvelous book.
It has something for every angle and if you think the Supreme Court has badly misinterpreted the Federal #Arbitration Act then this chapter in particular is for you:
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
It has something for every angle and if you think the Supreme Court has badly misinterpreted the Federal #Arbitration Act then this chapter in particular is for you:
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
April 1, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Thx to Rick Bales & Jill Gross for so capably leading dozens of scholars on this marvelous book.
It has something for every angle and if you think the Supreme Court has badly misinterpreted the Federal #Arbitration Act then this chapter in particular is for you:
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
It has something for every angle and if you think the Supreme Court has badly misinterpreted the Federal #Arbitration Act then this chapter in particular is for you:
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Burkean libertarianism
like Churchill‘s wisdom that democracy is the worst, except for all the others
like Churchill‘s wisdom that democracy is the worst, except for all the others
March 29, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Burkean libertarianism
like Churchill‘s wisdom that democracy is the worst, except for all the others
like Churchill‘s wisdom that democracy is the worst, except for all the others
Pop quiz for #bankruptcy students:
which sections of the Code should inform courts’ answers to this?
which sections of the Code should inform courts’ answers to this?
March 28, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Pop quiz for #bankruptcy students:
which sections of the Code should inform courts’ answers to this?
which sections of the Code should inform courts’ answers to this?
Let’s hope the confidence at the end of this is well placed, and that the Trump administration obeys court orders
March 27, 2025 at 7:24 AM
Let’s hope the confidence at the end of this is well placed, and that the Trump administration obeys court orders
2024 report uses 2022 data and points out that by then HK had been falling precipitously, so good question how far it'll have fallen in 2025 data.
March 25, 2025 at 10:06 PM
2024 report uses 2022 data and points out that by then HK had been falling precipitously, so good question how far it'll have fallen in 2025 data.
Concise summary of Trump‘s recent authoritarian illegalities and prospects for the courts constraining them. By Georgetown Law professor David Cole.
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March 22, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Concise summary of Trump‘s recent authoritarian illegalities and prospects for the courts constraining them. By Georgetown Law professor David Cole.
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By @davidcole-gtown.bsky.social
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By @davidcole-gtown.bsky.social
March 20, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Trying to define democracy in one slide for international audiences, and welcome your suggestions


March 17, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Trying to define democracy in one slide for international audiences, and welcome your suggestions


People thinking their money is being invested for them is on AARP‘s list of ten SS myths that refuse to die
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March 4, 2025 at 2:14 PM
People thinking their money is being invested for them is on AARP‘s list of ten SS myths that refuse to die
www.aarp.org/social-secur...
www.aarp.org/social-secur...