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Frank Edwards Tyler Distinguished Professor of Law

Stephen Ware is the author of five books, over 60 law review articles and many other publications. His writings have been cited by the Supreme Court of the United States and in at least 37 other cases. Ware teaches and writes on:

• Arbitration, Mediation, and Alternative Dispute Resolution,
• Bankruptcy, Insolvency, and Debt Collection,
• Contracts and Commercial Law, and
• Judicial Selection,

each with an international or comparative dimension. An experienced teacher of lawyering skills exercises in which student groups negotiate, mediate, and draft legal documents, Professor Ware takes this approach in his Transnational Dispute Resolution course, which he has customized for universities from Beijing to Istanbul to Kansas.

Ware has testified before both houses of the U.S. Congress, several state legislatures and, as an expert witness, in court. He is a frequent guest lecturer and speaker at academic and professional conferences-having given such presentations throughout the U.S. and in several other countries. He has appeared on numerous television and radio stations and been quoted in The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Financial Times, National Law Journal and many other news outlets. He is an elected member of the American Law Institute (ALI) and has served, at various times in his career, on the editorial board of the Journal of Legal Education and as an arbitrator for the American Arbitration Association.

Ware was named as the Frank Edwards Tyler Distinguished Professor of Law in 2019.

Education

• J.D., University of Chicago Law School, 1990
  Graduated with honors; Editor, University of Chicago Law Review; Bradley Fellow
• B.A. in American history and political science, University of Pennsylvania, 1987
  cum laude