Professor Rule is the Joseph Feller Memorial Chair in Law and Sustainability and serves as Faculty Director of the Law and Sustainability Program at ASU Law, where he teaches Property Law, Secured Transactions, Energy Law & Policy, and the Sustainability Law Research Seminar.
Prior to entering academia, Professor Rule was an attorney at K&L Gates LLP in Seattle, where his practice focused primarily on commercial real estate transactions and wind energy development. His research focuses mainly on emerging property law issues involving wind energy, solar energy, domestic drones and other technologies. Professor Rule is the author of "Solar, Wind and Land: Conflicts in Renewable Energy Development" (Routledge-Earthscan, 2014) and "Renewable Energy: Law, Policy and Practice" (West Academic Publishing, 2018; 2d ed. 2021). In recent years, he has worked on renewable energy policy research projects funded under the U.S. Department of Energy and U.S. Department of Defense. He was also recently a visiting professor at the University of New South Wales Law School in Sydney, Australia.
Professor Rule's academic research has been published in such journals as the UCLA Law Review, Washington University Law Review and Boston University Law Review. His op-eds on legal and policy issues have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times and other newspapers across the country.
He graduated with honors from the University of Chicago Law School in 2005, where he served on the Chicago Journal of International Law and was a John M. Olin Student Fellow in Law and Economics.
Property, renewable energy, land use, wind energy, solar energy, drones
Books:
Renewable Energy: Law, Policy and Practice (West Academic Publishing - American Casebook Series, 2d Ed. 2021)
The Law of Property (West Academic Publishing – Hornbook Series, 2019) (with D. Whitman, A. Burkhart & W. Freyermuth)
Renewable Energy: Law, Policy and Practice (West Academic Publishing—American Casebook Series, 2018)
Solar, Wind, and Land: Conflicts in Renewable Energy Development (Routledge-Earthscan, 2014)
Major Academic Articles:
Utility Mission Creep, 56 U.C. Davis Law Review __ (forthcoming 2022)
Entitlement-Shifting Rules, 62 Boston College Law Review 1193 (2021)
Toward a More Strategic National Stockpile, 9 Texas A&M Law Review 49 (2021)
Drone Zoning, 95 North Carolina Law Review 133 (2016)
Airspace in an Age of Drones, 95 Boston University Law Review 155 (2015).
Property Rights and Modern Energy, 20 George Mason Law Review 803 (2013) (AALS panel issue)
Airspace and the Takings Clause, 90 Washington University Law Review 421 (2012).
Airspace in a Green Economy, 59 U.C.L.A. Law Review 270 (2011).
Renewable Energy and the Neighbors, 2010 Utah Law Review 1223 (2010)
Shadows on the Cathedral: Solar Access Laws in a Different Light, 2010 University of Illinois Law Review 851 (2010)
Spring 2022 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
LAW 523 | Property |
LAW 622 | Secured Transactions |
LAW 735 | Teaching Assistant |
LAW 781 | Independent Study |
LAW 791 | Seminar |
Fall 2021 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
SDO 598 | Special Topics |
LAW 619 | Energy Law & Policy |
LAW 791 | Seminar |
Spring 2021 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
LAW 523 | Property |
LAW 735 | Teaching Assistant |
LAW 781 | Independent Study |
LAW 791 | Seminar |
Fall 2020 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
HON 494 | Special Topics |
SDO 598 | Special Topics |
LAW 619 | Energy Law & Policy |
LAW 791 | Seminar |
Spring 2020 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
LAW 523 | Property |
LAW 735 | Teaching Assistant |
LAW 781 | Independent Study |
LAW 791 | Seminar |
Fall 2019 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
HON 494 | Special Topics |
SDO 592 | Research |
SDO 598 | Special Topics |
LAW 619 | Energy Law & Policy |
LAW 791 | Seminar |
Spring 2019 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
LAW 523 | Property |
LAW 735 | Teaching Assistant |
LAW 781 | Independent Study |
LAW 791 | Seminar |
Fall 2018 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
HON 494 | Special Topics |
SDO 592 | Research |
SDO 598 | Special Topics |
LAW 619 | Energy Law & Policy |
LAW 791 | Seminar |
Spring 2018 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
LAW 523 | Property |
SDO 584 | Internship |
SDO 592 | Research |
LAW 622 | Secured Transactions |
LAW 735 | Teaching Assistant |
LAW 781 | Independent Study |
Fall 2017 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
LAW 523 | Property |