Faculty Scholarship

This listing of faculty scholarship reflects the recent work of the full-time faculty at the law school. 

This listing is updated quarterly. 

For a complete listing of scholarship and professional activities, please view each faculty member’s Curriculum Vitae, which can be found on their profile page.

Jessica Asbridge

Associate Professor of Law

Publications

• Fines, Forfeitures, and Federalism, 111 Virginia Law Review 67 (2025)

Presentations

• Panelist: “Harmless Servitudes” (Work in Progress), 2025 Northeastern Junior Scholars Conference (February 2025)
• Panelist: “Harmless Servitudes” (Work in Progress), 2025 American Association of Law Schools Scholarship Section’s Incubator Roundtable (January 2025)
• Podcast Guest: “The Eminent Domain Podcast” Episode 132: Scholarship Round Up with Profs. Jessica Asbridge and Emilio Longoria
• Panelist: “Background Principles, General Law, and Constitutional Property,” 21st Annual Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Conference, William & Mary Law School (September 2024)
• “U.S. Supreme Court Takings Update,” CLE International’s Texas Eminent Domain Conference (August 2024)

Michael Berry

Legal Writing Senior Lecturer

Presentations

• “AI in Legal Writing Instruction: Faculty and Student Perspectives,” Lone Star Legal Writing Conference (April 2025) Co-presented with Prof. Lee Ann James.

Joshua G. Borderud

Director of Clinical and Pro Bono Programs and Clinical Lecturer

Professional Activities

• Waco City Council
• Vice Chair, Heart of Texas Behavioral Health Network
• Past Chair, Waco Metropolitan Planning Organization
• Past President, Waco-McLennan County Bar Association
• Master of the Bench, Judge Abner V. McCall American Inn of Court 

Anthony Bruster

Assistant Professor of Law

Honors

• Selected as a Texas “Super Lawyer” by Thomson/Reuters (September 2024)

Presentations

• Presenter on Trial Advocacy topics, The Carlson Law Firm Trial College (September 2024)

Professional Activities

• Faculty Sponsor, Baylor Law Students Plaintiffs’ Law Association, 2024-25 

Matthew Cordon

Director of the Legal Writing Program, The A. Royce Stout Chair of Law

Presentations

• “The Pre-Law Stage: Developing and Teaching an Undergraduate Legal Writing Course,” Lone Star Legal Writing Conference (April 2025)

Professional Activities

• Developer and instructor, “The New Reality: AI and Ethics in Law,” online certification course offered through the Graduate Professional Education program at Baylor University
• Member, Baylor University Generative AI Workgroup, 2025

Thomas M. Featherston, Jr.

The Mills Cox Professor of Law

Publications

• Co-Author: Questions & Answers: Wills, Trusts, and Estates (4th ed.) Carolina Academic Press (2023)

Professional Activities

• Senior Editor, Probate & Property, published six times a year by the Real Property, Trust and Estate Law Section of the American Bar Association
• Member, Publications Committee of the ABA’s Real Property, Trust and Estate Law Section
• Member, Legislative Review Committee, Real Estate, Probate and Trust Law Section, State Bar of Texas
• Former ABA Advisor to the Uniform Law Commission’s Drafting Committee to Revise the Uniform Disposition of Community Property Rights at Death Act

Elizabeth M. Fraley

Gerald Reading Powell Chair in Advocacy

Publications

• Teague, L., Fraley, E., Fundamentals of Lawyer Leadership: A Skills Guide to Professional Identity Formation (2nd ed.), Aspen Publishing (2024)
• Fraley, E., Powell, G., Kinkeade, E. Texas Rules of Evidence with Objections, NITA (5th ed.) (2024) 

Presentations

• Panelist: “Professionals, Justice and Civility.” Baylor Symposium on Faith and Culture, Institute for Faith and Learning (October 2024)
• “Using Early Case Assessment Techniques to Enhance Litigation Scoping and Planning.” Running Legal Like a Business, LawVision/The LPM Institute (September 2024) 
• “Civil Case Law Update.” Annual Judicial Conference, Center for Judicial Education (September 2024)  
• “Voir Dire and Closing Argument Basics.” Litigation Training Conference, Carlson Firm (September 2024) 
• “Ethical and Security Issues with Artificial Intelligence.” Co-presented with Laura Fey, American Civil Trial Bar Roundtable, American Board of Trial Advocates (September 2024)

Professional Activities

• American Board of Trial Advocates, National Chair, Artificial Intelligence Committee
• President, Waco Symphony Association
• Board Member, Waco Symphony Foundation
• Executive Committee Member, Episcopal Diocese of Texas 

Bridget Fuselier

Professor of Law

Publications

• “Lady Bird Deeds and the Power to Revoke,” Bridget Fuselier & Jacob Straub, 46th Annual Advanced Real Estate Law, REPTL Newsletter July 2024.

Presentations

• “Baylor Law School Clinical Programs,” State Bar of Texas Military & Veterans Law Society (March 2025)

Professional Activities

• Member, Waco Historic Landmark Presentation Commission (re-appointed by Waco City Council to serve until December 2026) 
• Baylor Teaching Fellow
• Executive Director, Baylor Veterans Clinic
• Editor (Easements & Covenants), REPTL Reporter

Chris Galeczka

Reference Librarian

Professional Activities

• Chair, McLennan County Bar Association Law Library Committee

Laura Hernández

Professor of Law

Presentations

• “An International Perspective on Business and Human Rights” Immigrant Workers Rights at Texas International Law Journal Symposium (April 2025

Professional Activities

• Named as a Latina Commissioner by Pedro J. Torres-Diaz, the President of the Hispanic National Bar Association (HNBA)

Christopher Brett Jaeger

Associate Professor of Law

Honors

• Baylor University Outstanding Faculty, Tenure-Track Scholarship, 2024-2025 Academic Year
• Co-winner, American Association of Law Schools (AALS) Scholarly Papers Competition

Publications

• “The Hand Formula’s Unequal Inputs” 135 Yale Law Journal (Forthcoming)
• Tonja Jacobi & Christopher Brett Jaeger, “Katz’s Imperfect Circle: An Empirical Study of Reasonable Expectations of Privacy,” Florida Law Review (Forthcoming)
• “Reasonableness from an Experimental Jurisprudence Perspective,” Cambridge Handbook on Experimental Jurisprudence (Forthcoming)
• Lewis J. Baker, Hongyue Li, Hugo Hammond, Christopher Brett Jaeger, Anne Havard, Jonathan D. Lane, Caroline E. Harriott & Daniel T. Levin, “The Roles of Cognitive Dissonance and Normative Reasoning in Attributions of Minds to Robots,” Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, December 2024 
• Sarah Brown-Schmidt, Christopher Brett Jaeger, Kaitlin Lord, & Aaron S Benjamin, “Remembering conversation in group settings,” Memory & Cognition, September 2024

 Presentations

• “Mapping Reasonableness,” American Psychology-Law Society Annual Conference, San Juan, Puerto Rico (March 2025)
• “The Hand Formula’s Unequal Inputs,” presented at New Scholars Workshop, Torts & Civil Procedure Panel, Southeastern Association of Law Schools Annual Meeting, Fort Lauderdale, Florida (July 2024); Central States Law School Association, Texas Tech University School of Law, Lubbock, Texas (September 2024); AALS Jurisprudence Junior Works-in-Progress Workshop, Zoom Workshop (September 2024); Emory Law School Scholarship Colloquium, Emory Law School, Atlanta, Georgia (October 2024); Conference on Empirical Legal Studies, Emory Law School, Atlanta, Georgia (November 2024); and the AALS Awards Ceremony, San Francisco, California (January 2025).

Lee Ann James

Legal Writing Lecturer

Presentations

• “AI in Legal Writing Instruction: Faculty and Student Perspectives,” Lone Star Legal Writing Conference (April 2025) Co-presented with Prof. Michael Berry.

Jessica Kincaid

Legal Writing Lecturer

Presentations

• “Legal Writing, Reasoning, and Research: Works-in-Progress,” AALS Annual Meeting (January 2025)

Rachel Kincaid

Assistant Professor of Law

Publications

• “‘Excited Delirium’ Training Encourages Law Enforcement Violence,” 99 Tulane Law Review 49 (2025)
• “‘Access Denied: The Injustice of PLRA Exhaustion,” Marquette Law Review (Forthcoming)
• “For Official Violence, the Devil’s in the Dehumanizing Details,” Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology Online (Forthcoming). (Invited response to Sharon Dolovich, “Excessive Force in Prison,” 114 Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology 415 (2024)

Presentations

• ABA, Academy for Justice, AALS Criminal Law Works in Progress Workshop (December 2024) 
• Rocky Mountain Junior Scholars Forum, S.J. Quinney College of Law (November 2024)
• Baylor Law Scholarship Workshop (October 2024)
• “How Law Schools Can Help Bend the Arc of the Moral Universe Toward Justice,” 2024 SALT Teaching Conference, Boston University School of Law (September 2024)
• “‘Excited Delirium’ Training Encourages Law Enforcement Violence,” Public Defenseless Podcast (September 2024)
• “Episode 9: Professor Rachel Kincaid,” In Re:JD Podcast (September 2024)
• “The Silencing Procedural (In)Justice of PLRA Exhaustion” CrimFest, Cardozo School of Law (July 2024)

Luke Meier

Professor of Law

Publications

• “Vicarious Product Liability,” Tennessee Law Review (Forthcoming)
• “ADHD, the ADA, and First-Year Law School Examinations,” Capital University Law Review  (Forthcoming) 

Elizabeth Miller

M. Stephen and Alyce A. Beard Chair in Business and Transactional Law

Publications

• O’Connor’s Texas Business Organizations Handbook (2024 ed.) (Thomson Reuters)
• Business Organizations, Texas Practice Series (3d ed.) (2024-2025 Annual Supplement) (Thomson Reuters)
• “Model Company Agreements for Closely Held LLCs,” 16th Annual Essentials of Business Law, State Bar of Texas, March 2025
• “Miscellaneous Recent (Non-Delaware) Partnership and LLC Cases,” 2024 LLC Institute, Committee on LLCs, Partnerships and Unincorporated Entities, American Bar Association, November 2024
• Case Law Update: A Survey of Recent Texas Partnership and LLC Cases,” 33rd Annual LLCs, LPs and Partnerships Conference, University of Texas School of Law, July 2024
• Is a Will the Only Way? Transfers on Death and Transfer Restrictions in LLC Agreements, 22 FLA. ST. U. BUS. REV. 107 (2023)

Presentations

• “Keeping It Legal,” Texas Association of Symphony Orchestras (March 2025)
• “LLC Agreements,” 16th Annual Essentials of Business Law, State Bar of Texas (March 2025)
• “Is Texas the New Delaware?” Open for Business: The Evolving Texas Corporate Governance and Securities Landscape, SMU Rowling Center for Business Law & Leadership (February 2025)
• “LLC Case Law Update,” 2024 LLC Institute, Committee on LLCs, Partnerships and Unincorporated Entities, American Bar Association (November 2024)
• “Current Developments in Texas Business Organizations Law,” Austin Bar Association–Business, Corporate and Tax Section, January 29, 2025
• “Delaware v. Texas for Business Entities,” 22nd Annual Advanced Business Law Course, State Bar of Texas (December 2024 and November 2024)
• “Case Law Update Part 2,” 33rd Annual LLCs, LPs, and Partnerships Conference, University of Texas School of Law (July 2024)
• “Case Law Update Part 1,” 33rd Annual LLCs, LPs, and Partnerships Conference, University of Texas School of Law, (July 2024)

Professional Activities

• Member, Joint Editorial Board on Uniform Unincorporated Organizations Acts, Uniform Law Commission, and American Bar Association
• ABA Advisor, Drafting Committee for Revision of Uniform Unincorporated Organizations Acts, Uniform Law Commission
• Chair, Editorial Board of Publications of the LLCs, Partnerships and Unincorporated Entities Committee of the Business Law Section, American Bar Association
• Board of Directors, American College of LLC and Partnership Attorneys
• Member, Business Organizations Code Committee of the Business Law Section, State Bar of Texas
• Elected Member, American Law Institute
• Fellow, American Bar Foundation
• Life Fellow, Texas Bar Foundation

Walt Shelton

Adjunct Professor of Law

Honors

• Selected through peer review process as the “Lawyer of the Year” for 2024 in The Best Lawyers in America® in the Dallas-Fort Worth regional area in the field of Environmental Law
• Selected through peer review process for inclusion in the 2024 annual edition of The Best Lawyers in America® in the practice areas of Environmental Law and Water Law. Professor Shelton has been recognized and listed in Best Lawyers for 26 consecutive years.
   

Publications

• "Focus on Today, Not Mortality,” Austin American-Statesman, May 11, 2025, at 6E.
• “Lent is a Wonderful Opportunity and Model for Effective Self-Reflection,” Progressive Christianity, posted as the lead article on March 24, 2025, and included in the March 25, 2025, Progressive Christianity Newsletter.
• “Use Lent as Your Period for Self-Reflection,” Austin American-Statesman, March 23, 2025, at 6E.
• “Forgiveness When You’ve Been Wronged is Complicated,” Austin American-Statesman, January 12, 2025, at 2E.
• “God’s Friendship as a Model for Human Connections,” Austin American-Statesman, October 6, 2024, at 4E.
• “Holiness in Everyday Acts,” Austin American-Statesman, August 18, 2024, at 6E.
• “Wellness for Attorneys and Future Attorneys,” State Bar of Texas Ethics CLE Program (in person and online) and student PDP program, Baylor Law School, February 20, 2024
• “Wellness for Law Students/Future Attorneys,” Baylor Law PDP Program paper in conjunction with State Bar Ethics CLE, Baylor Law School, February 20, 2024
• “Loving Ourselves is a Hard Lesson to Learn,” Austin American-Statesman, March 31, 2024, at 8E
• “In Life, the Shortest Distance is Not Always a Straight Line,” Austin American-Statesman, March 3, 2024, at 7E
• “Remembering to Make the Most of Our Lives,” Austin American-Statesman, February 18, 2024, at 2E.

Presentations

• “Two Very Different Easter Commissions,” Tarrytown United Methodist Church (Austin, TX), April 27, 2025.
• “The Nature and Timing of Meaningful Salvation,” Tarrytown United Methodist Church (Austin, TX), May 4, 2025.
• “Saved or Transformed,” The Church at Highland Park (Austin, TX), as part-time Assistant Pastor, May 11, 2025.“Is There Forgiveness Without Active Repentance?”, The Church at Highland Park, Austin, Texas (November 2024)
• “Paul and Holiness,” Tarrytown United Methodist Church, Austin, TX (July 2024)
• A Fresh Understanding of Paul for the 21st Century,” Tarrytown United Methodist Church, Austin, TX (July 2024)
• “Personal Wellness for Attorneys and Legal Professionals,” Allensworth Law Firm, Austin, TX (June 2024)

Professional Activities

• Liaison of the Environmental and Natural Resources Law Section of the State Bar of Texas with the Section of the Environment, Energy, and Resources of the American Bar Association
• Co-Chair, Law School Committee of the Environmental and Natural Resources Law Section, State Bar of Texas

Stephanie Tang

Assistant Professor of Law

Publications

• “Adjudicating De Facto Parentage,” University of Wisconsin Law Review (Forthcoming)
• “The Role of Children in Child Custody Mediation,” Family Law Quarterly (Forthcoming)
• “Adjudicating International Relocation Claims in the United States,” International Family Law Journal (2025) 
• “Safeguarding Children’s Voices in Child Protective Proceedings,” 102 University of Denver Law Review (2025) 
• “Examples and Explanations: Family Law” (7th Ed.)Aspen Publishing, co-authored with Nancy Ver Steegh and Robert Oliphant (2024). 
• “Best Interests of the Child and the Expanding Family,” 14(1) U.C. Irvine Law Review Rev. 236 (2024)

Presentations

• Works-in-Progress Presentation: Adjudicating De Facto Parentage, Invited Lecturer Series: University of Illinois College of Law (March 2025).
• Pedagogy Panel: Teaching Parents, Children, and the State (moderator and panelist), Works-in-Progress Presentation: Adjudicating De Facto Parentage, Association of American Law Schools Annual Meeting (January 2025).
• The Role of Children in Child Custody Mediation, American Bar Association Dispute Resolution Section Lunch & Learn (December 2024).
• Topic 1: International Relocation; Topic 2: Structuring the Financial Settlement, “Family Law with a Global Twist – London 2024,” Illinois State Bar Association Family Law Section Council (October 2024).
• Social Media Strategies for Practicing Attorneys, Waco-McLennan County Bar Association (October 2024).
• Cryptocurrency, NFTs, and Divorce, LawPracticeCLE (August 2024).

Professional Activities

• Board Member, Dispute Resolution Center Waco
• Secretary, Asian Leaders Network Waco
• Fellow, American Bar Foundation
• Vice Chair, Association of American Law Schools Family & Juvenile Law Section 
• Planning Committee Member, Family Law Scholars & Teachers Conference

Dyllan Moreno Taxman

Assistant Professor of Law

Publications

• “Killing Through Their Kids” 67 William & Mary Law Review (Forthcoming)
• “I’m Guilty, But I’m Not a War Criminal!” Fixing Treaty Crimes” 20 Duke Journal of Constitutional Law & Public Policy (Forthcoming)
• “Which Military Veterans Are Actually Prohibited Possessors Under the Gun Control Act?” Duke Law Second Thoughts Blog (March 2025)

Presentations

• Defining Dishonorable Conditions in the Gun Control Act, Texas Bar Association Military and Veterans Law Section Spring CLE (March 2025) 
• Parental Homicide Liability and School Shootings, 2025 Northeastern University School of Law Junior Scholars Conference (February 2025)
• Fixing Treaty Crimes, American Association of Law Schools National Security Law Section Works in Progress Series, AALS Annual Meeting 2025 (January 2025) 
• Fixing Treaty Crimes, Junior International Law Scholars Association 2024 Annual Meeting (December 2024)
• Parental Homicide Liability and School Shootings, 2024 ABA/AALS Criminal Justice Roundtable

Leah Jackson Teague

Professor of Law and Director of Business Law Programs

Publications

• Teague, L, and Testy, K, “The Shifting Landscape for Diversity Initiatives: A Leadership Challenge,” University of Tennessee Law Journal Leadership Symposium Issue (Forthcoming). 
• Teague, L., Fraley, E., Fundamentals of Lawyer Leadership: A Skills Guide to Professional Identity Formation (2nd ed.), Aspen Publishing (2024)
• Teague, L., Fraley, E. & Rispoli, S., “Creating a Culture of Professionalism to Equip Students for the Paradoxes of the Legal Profession,” 20 St. Thomas Law Review 877 (2024).

Presentations

• “Roundtable Reflections: Designing and Leading Leadership Courses, Initiatives in Law Schools,” Leadership and Character in the Law Conference, Wake Forest University’s School of Law and Program for Leadership and Character,  Winston-Salem, NC (March 2025) 
• “Leadership Development to Equip Lawyers for Success, Service & Significance,” Leadership Development Roundtable, National Association - Law Placement, webinar (February 2025) 
• “Ethical Leadership,” Leadership Waco (February 2025) 
• “Professional Responsibility in the Law,” Baylor2Baylor Law Program, Baylor Law School and Baylor University Undergraduate Admissions (February 2025) 
• “Leadership Development in Law Schools: Preparing Law Students for Leadership,” AALS Discussion Group, AALS Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA (January 2025) 
• “The Shifting Landscape for Diversity Initiatives: A Leadership Challenge,” Lighting the Way for 10 Years: A Symposium on Leadership in Law and Lawyering, The University of Tennessee College of Law’s Institute for Professional Leadership, Knoxville, TN (October 2024) 

Professional Activities

• ABA Ethics Series Advisory Board  
• Executive Committee, AALS Section on Leadership
• Executive Committee Member, Texas Federal Tax Institute Board of Directors
• Vice-Chair, Creative Waco

Bradley J. B. Toben

Dean Emeritus and M.C. & Mattie Caston Chair of Law

Professional Activities

• Elected member, American Law Institute
• Commissioner, Texas Access to Justice Commission
• Master of the Bench, Abner V. McCall American Inn of Court

Patricia Wilson

Associate Dean and the William Boswell Chair of Law

Professional Activities

• Past Moderator, Cooperative Baptist Fellowship
• Member, Education Council; Member, Comprehensive Campus Planning Committee, Seventh & James Baptist Church
• Member, Client Counseling Subcommittee, ABA Law Student Division