Robert W. Tuttle
Associate Dean, Academic Development; David R. and Sherry Kirschner Berz Research Professor of Law and Religion
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Robert Tuttle is the David R. and Sherry Kirschner Berz Research Professor of Law and Religion at the George Washington University Law School, where he has taught since 1994, as well as Professor of Religion (by courtesy) in the University’s Columbian College of Arts & Sciences. After graduating from GW Law, he earned a PhD in religious ethics from the University of Virginia; he also holds a BA from the College of William & Mary, and a master’s degree from the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago. With Ira C. Lupu, Professor Tuttle was the co-director of the Legal Tracking Project of the Roundtable on Religion and Social Welfare Policy, which studied government funding of religious social services. He is the author or co-author of numerous articles and reports in the fields of church-state law and legal ethics, along with the book Secular Government, Religious People (Eerdmans, 2014). Professor Tuttle serves as legal counsel to the Washington, D.C., Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, and as a consultant for Lutheran Services in America. He also serves as a Senior Fellow of the Emory University Center for Law and Religion.
"Courts swat down states’ attempts to post the Ten Commandments in classrooms"
The Washington Times quoted Robert Tuttle predicting the Supreme Court justices won’t be eager to mess with a decade-old precedent limiting the display of the commandments.
"Proponents hope to make Ten Commandments next Supreme Court test of religion in schools"
The Hill quoted Robert Tuttle theorizing the Supreme Court will not take up Ten Commandments cases because it would be forced to “really confront radical change in Establishment Clause law.”
"Century after man was convicted of teaching evolution, school religion debate rages"
The Associated Press quoted Robert Tuttle, and mentioned Ira Lupu on the principles of the Establishment Clause and how it’s being attacked almost daily.
BA, College of William and Mary; MA, Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago; JD, The George Washington University; PhD, University of Virginia
