Robert W. Tuttle

Robert Tuttle is the Associate Dean for Academic Development and 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, 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). From 1999-2024, Bob served as legal counsel to the Washington, DC, Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. He currently serves as senior counsel to the General Counsel of the ELCA, where he focuses on questions of constitutional law that relate to the church organization.

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