Asmara M. Tekle
Professor of Law

Phone: (713) 313-1154
Email: atekle@tmslaw.tsu.edu

SSRN
Joined the faculty in 2006.

Education:
J.D., Cornell Law School, Ithaca, NY
A.B., cum laude, Harvard College, Cambridge, MA

Courses Taught

Biographical Information

Professor of Law, Texas Southern University, Thurgood Marshall School of Law, Houston, TX (2012-Present)
Associate Dean for Research & Faculty Development, Texas Southern University, Thurgood Marshall School of Law, Houston, TX (2012-2015)
Associate Professor, Texas Southern University, Thurgood Marshall School of Law, Houston, TX (2009-2012)
Assistant Professor of Law, Texas Southern University, Thurgood Marshall School of Law, Houston, TX (2006-2009)
Owner, Law Office of Asmara M. Tekle, PLLC, Houston, TX (2004-2006)
Associate, Andrews Kurth, Houston, TX (2001-2003)
Federal Law Clerk, Honorable Carl E. Stewart, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, Shreveport, LA (2000-2001)

Publications

Roll on, Cyclist: The Idaho Rule, Traffic Law, and the Quest to Incentivize Urban Cycling, 92 CHI.-KENT. L. REV. ____ (2017) (Symposium entitled Cities in Crisis)
Rectifying These Mean Streets: Percent-for-Art, Street Furniture, and the New Streetscape, 104 KY. L.J. 409 (2016).
Have a Scoop of Grandpa: Composting as a Means of Final Disposition of Human Remains, 3 SAVANNAH L. REV. 137 (2016) (Colloquium entitled, The Walking Dead, examining death and the effect of the dead on the living).
Lawns and the New Watershed Law, 95 MARQ. L. REV. 213 (2011) (Symposium entitled, Changing Conceptions of Water in the Law, 2011 AALS Property and Agricultural Law Joint Sections Meeting).
Law and the Authoritarian Aesthetic of the American Lawn, ART LIES, Spring/Summer 2011 at 44.
The "Non-Maternal Wall" and Women of Color in High Governmental Office, 35 T. MARSHALL L. REV. 169 (2010).
Safe: Restrictive Covenants and the Next Wave of Sex Offender Restrictions, 62 SMU L. REV. 1817 (2009).
In The Zone: Sex Offenders and the Ten-Percent Solutions, 94 IOWA L. REV. 607 (2009).
Privatizing Eminent Domain: The Delegation of a Very Public Power to Private, Non-Profit and Charitable Corporations, 56 AM. U. L. REV. 455 (2007) (lead article).
Correcting for Kelo: Social Capital Impact Assessments and the Re-Balancing of Power Between "Desperate" Cities, Corporate Interests and the Average Joe, 16 CORNELL J. L. & PUB. POL'Y 187 (2006).

Faculty

Administration and Staff