Professor Rule is the Joseph Feller Memorial Chair in Law and Sustainability, the director of the Law and Sustainability Program, and faculty fellow in the Center for Law, Science, and Innovation. He teaches property, secured transactions and energy law and policy. 

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). In recent years, he has worked on renewable energy policy research projects funded under the U.S. Departmento of Energy and U.S. Department of Defense.

Professor Rule has also received multiple reseach and teaching awards, and his op-eds on legal and policy issues have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, Seattle Times, and other newspapers across the country.  

He graduated with honors from the University of Chicago Law School, where he served on the Chicago Journal of International Law and was a John M. Olin Student Fellow in Law and Economics.