He graduated with honors from the University of Chicago Law School in 2005, where he 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 real estate transactions and wind energy development. His research on property and regulatory issues involving wind energy, solar energy, and domestic drones has been published in such journals as the UCLA Law Review, Washington University Law Review, Boston University Law Review and University of Illinois Law Review. He is also the author of Solar, Wind and Land: Conflicts in Renewable Energy Development (Routledge, 2014).