Troy Rule
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Phone: 480-965-7553
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Mail code: 9520Campus: Dtphx
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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) 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 nearly two dozen 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.
- J.D. (cum laude), University of Chicago Law School 2005
- B.S. Economics (summa cum laude), Brigham Young University 2001
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)
Selected Academic Articles:
Preserving Sacred Sites and Property Law, 2024 Wisconsin Law Review 129 (2024)
Drones, Airspace, and the Sharing Economy, 84 Ohio State Law Journal 157 (2023)
Utility Mission Creep, 56 U.C. Davis Law Review 591 (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)
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)
Courses
2025 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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LAW 781 | Independent Study |
LAW 735 | Teaching Assistant |
2024 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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LAW 619 | Energy Law & Policy |
SDO 521 | Property Law: Masters |
SDO 521 | Property Law: Masters |
SDO 550 | Energy Law and Policy: Masters |
SDO 550 | Energy Law and Policy: Masters |
HON 494 | Special Topics |
2024 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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LAW 781 | Independent Study |
LAW 523 | Property |
LAW 735 | Teaching Assistant |
LAW 712 | Sustainability Law Research |
SDO 550 | Energy Law and Policy: Masters |
SDO 550 | Energy Law and Policy: Masters |
2023 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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LAW 619 | Energy Law & Policy |
LAW 712 | Sustainability Law Research |
SDO 521 | Property Law: Masters |
SDO 521 | Property Law: Masters |
SDO 550 | Energy Law and Policy: Masters |
SDO 550 | Energy Law and Policy: Masters |
HON 494 | Special Topics |
2023 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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LAW 781 | Independent Study |
LAW 523 | Property |
LAW 735 | Teaching Assistant |
LAW 712 | Sustainability Law Research |
SDO 598 | Special Topics |
SDO 598 | Special Topics |
2022 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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LAW 619 | Energy Law & Policy |
SDO 598 | Special Topics |
SDO 598 | Special Topics |
LAW 712 | Sustainability Law Research |
HON 494 | Special Topics |
2022 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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LAW 781 | Independent Study |
LAW 735 | Teaching Assistant |
LAW 622 | Secured Transactions |
LAW 791 | Seminar |
LAW 523 | Property |
2021 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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LAW 619 | Energy Law & Policy |
SDO 598 | Special Topics |
SDO 598 | Special Topics |
LAW 791 | Seminar |
2021 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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LAW 781 | Independent Study |
LAW 523 | Property |
LAW 735 | Teaching Assistant |
LAW 791 | Seminar |
2020 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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LAW 791 | Seminar |
LAW 619 | Energy Law & Policy |
SDO 598 | Special Topics |
SDO 598 | Special Topics |
HON 494 | Special Topics |
2020 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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LAW 781 | Independent Study |
LAW 735 | Teaching Assistant |
LAW 523 | Property |
LAW 791 | Seminar |
2019 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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LAW 791 | Seminar |
LAW 619 | Energy Law & Policy |
SDO 592 | Research |
SDO 598 | Special Topics |
SDO 598 | Special Topics |
HON 494 | Special Topics |