Profile

Troy A. Rule is Professor of Law at Arizona State University's Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law, where he holds the Joseph Feller Memorial Chair in Law and Sustainability and is Faculty Director of ASU's Program on Law and Sustainability. Professor Rule graduated with honors from the University of Chicago Law School in 2005, where he was a John M. Olin Fellow in Law and Economics. He practiced law in K&L Gates LLP's Seattle office prior to entering academia, focusing primarily on commercial real estate transactions and wind energy development. His research centers on emerging property and regulatory issues involving wind energy, solar energy and domestic drones. 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). He has published more than a dozen legal academic articles, and his op-eds on policy issues have appeared in such newspapers as the Wall Street Journal and Los Angeles Times.