Jessica A. Shoemaker, Steinhart Foundation Distinguished Professor of Law, has been named a fellow of Harvard University’s Radcliffe Institute for the 2026-27 academic year.

In Trading Acres , Je ssica A. Shoem aker (Law, University of Nebraska-Lincoln) and James Fallows Tierney (Law, Illinois Institute of Technology) address the growing trend of financialization o...

A periodic collection of recent research, analysis, and other notable rural items.

If you pay attention to public discourse about rural populations, you might have noticed something missing in the aftermath of the 2024 presidential election: think-pieces on rural voter s. These th...

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In Fears and Fences: Social and Material Barriers to Plains Bison on the Canadian Prairies , auth ors Forrest Hisey, Melissa Heppner (both Geography, Geomatics, and Environment, Univers ity of Toro...

In Shared Stewardship, El izabeth Kronk Warne r and Jesús A. Salazar (Both Law, University of Utah) challenge the trend of excluding tribes from participation of co-stewardship of national lands...

Farms are places where people live their lives, sustain their families, and produce food and fiber for the wider community. And now, farms are assets swept up i

In For Growth or Equity: A Taxonomy of ‘Bidenomics’ Place-Based Policies and Implications for US Regional Inequality , Gret e Gansauer (Earth Sciences, Montana State University) develops a new taxo...

In Empty Fields, Empty Promises: A State-by-State Guide to Understanding and Transforming the Right to Farm , Loka Ashwood (University of Kentucky, Sociology), Aimee Imlay (Mississippi State Univers...

A periodic collection of recent research, analysis, and other notable rural items.

Join the Rural Reconciliation Project and friends for a discussion of rural futures on March 11, 2025, inspired by an upcoming premier of the Angels Theatre Company’s new play, Eminent Domain.

Professor Jessica Shoemaker's article, Re-Placing Property, was reviewed by Yael Lifshitz, senior lecturer in Property Law at The Dickson Poon School of Law, King's College London, in JOTWELL: The…

In Re-Placing Property , Jessica A. Shoemaker (Nebraska Law) explores how property law shapes our attachments to place and considers the consequences of the property system prioritizing the first p...

The Rural Reconciliation Project was honored to host Dr. Nicholas Jacobs—professor, researcher, and resident of rural Maine—to discuss his new book on the political attitudes of rural communities. Th...

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Nebraska Law's Jessica A. Shoemaker will discuss the centuries-long struggle for land justice in rural America during her Nebraska Lecture, "Ground Rules: How Property Makes the Countryside," at 3:30 ...

A periodic collection of recent research, analysis, and other notable rural items.

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The 2024 Law & Rurality Workshop will be hosted in-person at the University of Iowa College of Law (Iowa City, Iowa) on Friday, November 15, 2024.