Jessica Asbridge
Associate Professor of Law
Jessica Asbridge joined the Baylor faculty in Fall of 2020. Professor Asbridge teaches Property I and II, Administrative Law: Federal, Arbitration, and LARC 3: Persuasive Communication. In 2024, she received Baylor University’s prestigious award for Outstanding Teaching among all university tenure-track faculty.
She writes in the areas of property law and administrative law with a focus on the Takings Clause of the U.S. Constitution. Her scholarship is published or forthcoming in the Virginia Law Review, BYU Law Review, Oregon Law Review, and Northwestern University Law Review Online, among others. She is a frequent speaker at national and regional CLE conferences on eminent domain and land use law.
Prior to teaching, she clerked for the Honorable Frank M. Hull and the late Honorable Peter T. Fay, both of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. She also served as a staff attorney in the Eleventh Circuit’s Staff Attorney’s Office. After her Eleventh Circuit experience, Professor Asbridge worked as an attorney at FordHarrison LLP in Atlanta, Georgia where she represented major airlines and other Fortune 500 companies in labor and employment disputes. Her professional achievements earned her recognition as a Georgia Rising Star in 2020 by Super Lawyers Magazine.
Professor Asbridge received a B.A. degree with distinction and with honors in Political Science and International Studies from the University of Kansas in 2008. She received a J.D. summa cum laude from Indiana University Maurer School of Law – Bloomington and was elected to the Order of the Coif in 2011. While in law school, she served as the Executive Submissions Editor for the Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies. She also was a semifinalist in Indiana Law’s Sherman Minton Moot Court Competition and received oral advocacy honors.
She serves as a faculty advisor to the Baylor Law Review and to HEAL, an organization dedicated to advocating for victims of domestic and sexual abuse. She previously served as a CASA volunteer and was on the board of Tapestri, an organization focused on providing services to survivors of human trafficking. She and her husband, Justin, have three children.
Recent Publications
- Fines, Forfeitures, and Federalism, Virginia L. Rev. (forthcoming 2025)
- Tax Forfeitures and the Excessive Fines Muddle, 118 Northwestern Univ. L. Rev. Online 170 (2023)
- Private Delegations and Eminent Domain, 101 Oregon L. Rev. 359 (2023)
- Redefining the Boundary Between Regulations and Appropriations, 47 BYU L. Rev. 809 (2022)
- Be Reasonable: The Applicability of Chevron to Agency Interpretations of Split-Authority Statutes, 104 Marquette L. Rev. 813 (2021)
- Whose Job Is It Anyway? The Department of Labor’s Authority to Make Labor Market Determinations Under the H-2B Program, 64 Drake L. Rev. 2 (2016)
Courses Taught
Property I & II, Administrative Law: Federal, Arbitration, LARC 3: Persuasive Communication
