Robert Tuttle

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 School, he earned a Ph.D. in religious ethics from the University of Virginia; he also holds a BA from the College of William & Mary, and a masters degree from the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago. 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. Tuttle is the author or co-author of numerous articles and reports in the fields of church-state law and legal ethics. 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. He also serves as a Senior Fellow of the Emory University Center for Law and Religion