Professor Chused is a prolific scholar and an expert on property law, law and gender, copyright law, and cyberlaw. He will join New York Law School in the 2008–09 academic year. He is currently Professor of Law at the Georgetown University Law Center. During 2004–05, he received a Senior Scholar Fulbright Grant to teach at the Law Faculty of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.

Before joining Georgetown’s faculty in 1973, he taught for five years at Rutgers School of Law in Newark. Professor Chused is also a member of various history associations as well as the Society of American Law Teachers, where he is currently the Webmaster and he previously served on the board of governors for 12 years.

He has published numerous books and articles on the legal history of gender and property law, and teaching texts in copyright and property. His recently published work includes a book chapter on the treatment of the poor in American landlord-tenant law, an article on copyright law in the digital age, a lengthy history of the famous landlord-tenant case Javins v. First National Realty Corporation, a historical essay on Myra Bradwell’s Chicago Legal News, and a history of landlord-tenant court in New York City at the turn of the twentieth century.