Robert Tuttle
Professor of Law; David R. and Sherry Kirschner Berz Research Professor of Law and Religion, The George Washington University Law School
Professor Tuttle joined the faculty in 1994. After graduating from GW Law in 1991, he earned a Ph.D. in religious ethics from the University of Virginia; he also holds a master's degree from the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago.
He teaches in the areas of property, trusts and estates, and professional responsibility. He is the author or co-author of numerous articles and reports in the fields of legal ethics and church-state law. He serves as legal counsel to the Washington, DC, Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, and as a board member of Lutheran Services in America.
With Professor Ira Lupu, Professor Tuttle is the co-director of the Legal Tracking Project of the Roundtable on Religion and Social Welfare Policy, which is funded by a grant from the Pew Charitable Trusts.