Admitted Students Weekend

Robin Kundis Craig joined the KU Law faculty in July 2024 and serves as the Robert A. Schroeder Distinguished Professor of Law. Craig specializes in all things water, including the relationships between climate change and water; the water-energy-food nexus; the Clean Water Act; the intersection of water issues and land issues; ocean and coastal law; marine biodiversity and marine protected areas; water law; ecological resilience and the law; climate change adaptation, and the relationships between environmental law and public health. She is the author, co-author, or editor of 12 books, including Re-Envisioning the Anthropocene Ocean (University of Utah Press, 2024, co-edited with Jeffrey M. McCarthy); The End of Sustainability (Kansas University Press 2017, with Melinda Harm Benson); Contemporary Issues in Climate Change Law and Policy (Environmental Law Institute 2016, with Stephen Miller); as well as textbooks for Environmental Law, Water Law and Toxic Torts. She has also written more than 100 law review articles and book chapters in both legal and scientific publications.

Laura Hines teaches Civil Procedure, Complex Litigation, and Remedies. Her scholarship examines the intersection of procedure and tort law, with a particular focus on aggregate litigation. Hines’s articles have appeared in the George Washington Law Review, Emory Law Journal, Wake Forest Law Review, Indiana Law Journal, and other leading publications. She has consulted or testified as an expert on class certification law in several mass tort class action cases. She currently is the director of the Shook, Hardy & Bacon Center for Excellence in Advocacy. Prior to joining KU Law, Hines was an associate at the Washington D.C. offices of Arnold & Porter and clerked for the U.S. 8th Circuit Court of Appeals.

Stephen Ware is the author of four books, over 50 law review articles, and many other publications. His writings have been cited by the Supreme Court of the United States and in at least 36 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. 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.

Kyle Velte joined the KU Law faculty as an Associate Professor of Law in 2018 and was promoted to Professor of Law in 2022. Velte assumed the role of Associate Dean for Faculty in August 2022. At the University of Kansas School of Law, she teaches Evidence, Torts, Employment Discrimination, and Sexual Orientation & the Law. She has appeared numerous times on media outlets discussing issues of civil liberties. Velte graduated with a B.A. from Hamilton College and a JD from American University Washington College of Law.

Betsy Six joined the KU Law faculty as a professor in the Lawyering Skills Program and became the Director of Academic Resources in 2010. In the 2017-2018 academic year, Six served as president of the Association of Academic Support Educators (AASE). Six was awarded the Robert A. Schroeder Teaching Fellowship in 2015, the Immel Award for Teaching Excellence in 2020, and the Bob & Kathie Taylor Excellence in Teaching Award. Six graduated from Stanford Law School, where she was a member of the Stanford Law Review. During law school, she spent six months researching international human rights issues in Geneva for the Institute Henri Dunant, a research institute affiliated with the International Red Cross. She joined the Kansas City law firm of Spencer Fane Britt & Browne after graduation with a primary practice area of environmental law.

Najarian R. Peters earned her J.D. at Notre Dame Law School and her B.A. at Xavier University of Louisiana. Professor Peters’ research focuses on privacy law, child law, home-education, emerging technology and legal history. Since 2018, she has been a faculty associate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University. She teaches the following courses: AI Governance and Privacy Law; Marginalized Bodies in Literature, Medicine, and Law; Torts; Privacy Law; and The Practice of Privacy Law. She has recently developed a course called AI Governance Law and Policy. LexisNexis published her first book, Kansas Personal Injury Law in 2024. Professor Peters created the new privacy focused conference PrivacyPraxis in 2020 and co-designed the Wellness in Democracy series at KU that she has co-hosted since 2022.

Sharon Brett joined the KU Law faculty as an associate professor of law in 2024. Her scholarship focuses on structural, procedural and doctrinal impediments to systemic reform of government institutions, with a specific focus on the criminal legal system and policing. Immediately prior to joining the faculty at KU, Brett was the legal director at the ACLU of Kansas where she led complex civil rights litigation in Kansas state and federal courts. She has first chaired numerous trials and argued several appeals on cases regarding voting rights and redistricting, the Fourth Amendment, LGBTQ+ rights and more. After graduating from the University of Michigan Law School, magna cum laude, Brett clerked for Judge John M. Facciola (ret.) on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. She then joined the U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division, Special Litigation Section through the Attorney General’s Honors Program. While there, Brett investigated and litigated large-scale police misconduct and prison conditions cases. She also wrote amicus briefs on behalf of the United States on a variety of civil rights issues.