Stephen Ware

#contract law and risk.

A few years ago, it was pandemic.

Now, sadly, war.

United Airlines can now ban passengers who don't wear headphones United Airlines added a new rule that could ban passengers who don't use headphones when listening to audio on their devices.

If you need some good news, rejoice!:

www.usatoday.com/story/travel...

Cato Institute legal scholar Ilya Somin calls the war against Iran blatantly unconstitutional, emphasizing that “The Framers of the Constitution deliberately gave Congress exclusive control over the power to initiate war.”

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“perfect competition”, rivalry, and #antitrust law

We agree about Pres & law enforcement.
Any of the others would be fun to discuss over a meal or like. 

“Smarties insufficiently constrained by the public“ part of arg for reducing power and discretion of ppl in federal agencies and state universities, as well as public sector unions trading political support for above market retirement benefits

Good thread based on a good NYTimes piece—plus interesting comments and discussion:

US median net worth nearly double 1989 v. NYTimes Tom Edsall

This was a very worthwhile conference!

Appreciate all the good comments on my work in progress on adhesion contracts, #arbitration and otherwise

GORSUCH: “.. permanent accretion of power in the hands of one man. That is no recipe for a republic.” 👀

Eager to teach from this new #arbitration book with terrific new co-authors, David Horton of @ucdavis.bsky.social & Tamar Meshel of @ualberta.bsky.social


Timeline cleanse

Private plaintiffs a bigger % of #consumer enforcement in US than EU (entrepreneurial lawyers are the American Way!) but I haven't seen any reliable apples to apples data comparing govt enforcement of consumer rights in US v EU. I wonder if substantive law differences loom larger than procedural

Thanks for using the word "insight" to describe something I said!

It's elaborated here bsky.app/profile/prof...

and here

papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Energized for a new semester of teaching the resurgent subject of #bankruptcy and coaching the University of Kansas School of Law bankruptcy moot court team in the Shapero and #Duberstein competitions.

Nice synergy with my writing on #mediation and#arbitration in #insolvency cases.

DA BEARS

Holy forking shirtballs

HOOOOOOOOOOOOOLY SHIT

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

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:

Not bad, actually - except for the war bit.

Friendly suggestion for the future is to acknowledge correlation

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

Rockets owners expand talks to buy, move Sun

Terrifying headline if you don’t realize they are sports teams.

Settling litigation:

From “Child Labor in the United States” by Robert Whaples