Bret Asbury’s interests focus on jurisprudence and law and literature.
Professor Asbury received his J.D. from Yale Law School, where he was managing editor of
The Yale Law Journal and a senior editor of the Yale Journal on Regulation, while also
serving on the executive board of the Black Law Students’ Association.
Before coming to the law school, Professor Asbury practiced with Morgan, Lewis &
Bockius, LLP and Dechert, LLP, both in Philadelphia. While at these firms, Professor
Asbury worked on leveraged buyouts, debt restructurings, securities offerings, mergers
and strategic acquisitions, tort and securities litigations, white collar criminal
investigations and NASD arbitrations.
In addition to his law firm experience, Professor Asbury clerked for the Hon. Julio M.
Fuentes of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, in Newark, NJ.
Professor Asbury’s prior teaching experience includes fellowships in the Yale University
English and Literature departments.
His article, “Law as Palimpsest: Conceptualizing Contingency in Judicial Opinions,” was
published in the Alabama Law Review.
