Troy Rule

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 in 2009, 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 centers 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; 3d ed. 2026) and a co-author of The Law of Property (West Academic Publishing, 4th ed. 2019). He has worked on renewable energy policy research projects funded under the U.S. Department of Energy and U.S. Department of Defense.  

Professor Rule has published dozens of law journal articles, including articles in such journals as the UCLA Law Review, Washington University Law Review, North Carolina Law Review, and Boston University Law Review.  His op-eds have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, and other major newspapers across the country.  

Professor Rule 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.