Joseph Feller Memorial Chair in Law & Sustainability

Professor of Law

Faculty Director, Program on Law and Sustainability
Senior Sustainability Scholar, Global Institute of Sustainability
Faculty Fellow, Center for Law, Science, and Innovation

Professor Rule teaches Property, Secured Transactions and Energy Law & Policy. 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 & Economics.

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.