University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law

The urban public law school with a small liberal arts feel

Kenneth D. Ferguson Associate Professor of Law; B.A. (Drake University); J.D. (O.W. Coburn School of Law) email 816-235-2386 Class Links Vita Professor Kenneth D. Ferguson has been a professor since 1992 at the University of Missouri Kansas City Law School. He teaches Contracts, Commercial Transactions, Secured Transactions, and Debtors' & Creditors' Rights as well as Sports Law and Entertainment Law. Professor Ferguson earned his J.D. in 1986 from O. W. Coburn Law School of Oral Roberts University. Before joining the law faculty, Professor Ferguson was a law clerk to the Honorable Dennis Stewart, Chief Judge of the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Western District of Missouri. Thereafter, he specialized in bankruptcy litigation and corporate law at the Kansas City firm of Shughart, Thomson & Kilroy. His scholarship covers bankruptcy, secured transactions, and has recently expanded to sports law. He is nationally known for his work with USA Track & Field, the national governing body for the United States Olympic Track & Field Program. He is a member of the National Governing Body of USA Track and Field where his service on that body's Restructuring Task Force and Law & Legislation Committee earned him the 2006 President's Achievement Award. He has been Chair of the University of Missouri Athletic Committee and is the University of Missouri Kansas City Faculty Athletics Representative to the Mid Continent Athletic Conference. He is a coach and consultant to athletes and their families on athletic and educational issues, as well as popular speaker on a wide range of sport-related issues.