Writing a book is hard. At least my kids still surprise me and make me laugh.

@jessicashoemaker.bsky.social & @jamesftierney.bsky.social's Article reveals how property, corporate, and securities law are fueling a new rural land grab, turning farmland into a financialized asset. They advance democratic alternatives to protect rural communities and sustainable food systems.

Prof. Shoemaker published (with former Nebraska Law professor @jamesftierney.bsky.social) "Absentee Ownership and the Berle-Means Firm," in the peer-reviewed Journal of European Economic History. Read more ›› buff.ly/YwyAuoa #NELaw

What happens when farmland becomes just another financial asset? Our latest digest shares recent work by Project co-creator(!) @jessicashoemaker.bsky.social and @jamesftierney.bsky.social on the possibilities and limitations of regulatory responses.

Our October Roundup highlights scholarship ranging from public views on aquaculture to political polarization within rural communities, shares a podcast rec on telehealth and broadband, news on farm incomes, arts orgs, and more:

📢 New commentary! We're thrilled to feature a guest piece by Ann M. Eisenberg on how long-ignored economic and policy shifts shaped political realignment and why rural discontent matters. Check it out here: www.ruralreconcile.org/ruralreview/...

Why does it matter who owns America's farms? @jessicashoemaker.bsky.social (@unlcollegeoflaw.bsky.social) and @jamesftierney.bsky.social (@chicagokentlaw.bsky.social) join @busscholarship.bsky.social to discuss their article "Trading Acres." 1/2

Also, Nebraska is beautiful.

10/10 - writing about land while on the land. Interdisciplinary biological stations forever.

Check out our digest of ‪@fhisey.bsky.social‬, Melissa Heppner, and Andrea Olive’s qualitative study on how social acceptance and material resources complicate the return of bison to the Canadian plains. Read more on how land, animals, and history intersect:

Our digest of Elizabeth Kronk Warner and Jesús A. Salazar's article on shared stewardship shares their insights on the role of tribal governments in the management of U.S. public lands and identifies opportunities for future collaboration.

I'm not sure any article I've ever written has caused more reader feelings than this one... "Trading Acres" with the fabulous @jamesftierney.bsky.social now live on SSRN and forthcoming in YLJ. Feel free to share your feelings too! papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

When everything is hard, at least we can host a workshop that promises really good swag and a lovely, supportive community. Join us, online this Fall! www.ruralreconcile.org/programs/fal...

How might we understand the place-based policy efforts of the Biden administration? Our digest on @gretegans.bsky.social‬'s taxonomy of ‘Bidenomics’ classifies 4 major policy types targeting regional inequality and is a great place to start:

These replies are what I needed today.

This literally just changed my life.

As markets churn and world orders reset, @jamesftierney.bsky.social and I have a new piece forthcoming in Yale Law Journal that couldn't be more timely. "Trading Acres" traces the risks of farmland financialization and analyzes the role of law in this ongoing rural land grab. 🧵

Our newest digest highlights the work of Loka Ashwood, Aimee Imlay, Lindsay Kuehn, Allen Franco, and Danielle Diamond, offering the first analysis and guide to the right-to-farm laws that have been adopted by states across the country over the last 50 years.

Let's just say there are a lot of really important and smart people coming for this symposium, and I'm not sure at all that I should be highlighted on this flyer like this... but I am super grateful for the chance to attend at all and to learn and engage in these conversations soon.

Our March roundup highlights research on public health resilience, placed-based policies (by @gretegans.bsky.social), and the right to food, in addition to sharing recent news, an upcoming "Shaping the Future of Food" webinar from @iatp.bsky.social, and a podcast rec.

Picking up a cookie cake for this week’s property catch-up session, and I fear my students are going to think I’m telling them they are in the dog house. 😭😭😭

Rescheduled! Due to winter weather conditions in Nebraska, we are moving this play reading and discussion back one week, to March 11. Details here: www.ruralreconcile.org/ruralreview/... @rural-reconcile.bsky.social

One of my favorite teaching days in property.

Looking forward to being at Yale School of the Environment later this week for this cool event. Excited to tell - and hear - some new stories about land.

Trying a new property office hour technique today - Cookies and Catching Up. But the cookies are fudge oatmeal bars (made by my daughter!), and the catching up may be not property-related. Times are hard. We're doing our best.

Professor Jessica Shoemaker's (@jessicashoemaker.bsky.social) 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 Journal of Things We Like (Lots). Read on ›› https://buff.ly/4gBm5z7.

Excited to share our latest digest featuring recent work by our very own Project Director @jessicashoemaker.bsky.social this week! Read about the relationship between property law and human placemaking and how a clearer language can help sort out what is at stake. #rural

Just reviewed and commented on 52 student outlines. As much as that task is hard and often thankless, feeling super strongly this morning that it's going to make me a better teacher - what better way for me to GET instant feedback on my teaching than to GIVE feedback on their current work?

Grateful to the incredible Yael Lifshitz who, over at Jotwell, has this kind review of my "Re-Placing Property" piece. Putting this one in my folder for dark days: "Professor Shoemaker’s thoughtful framework offers a different way of understanding the threads that tie property together."

Just finished an exercise in my property class on the Coase Theorem and going to leave these extras - with the note - in the faculty lounge just to see what happens.

Yes, charming.

This fall, Prof. @jessicashoemaker.bsky.social and @rural-reconcile.bsky.social co-hosted the annual Law and Rurality workshop at the University of Iowa College of Law. The workshop covered scholarship in law, anthropology, planning, sociology, and history. #NELaw Read on ›› go.unl.edu/be8x.

Researching democratic theory in relation to land ownership and have too many PDFs open... Started reading the file in front of me and had this exciting AH HA! moment. Went to go excitedly tell my co-author, @jamesftierney.bsky.social, And, reader: It was us. I was reading our own draft. 🤦

Headed home for the holidays? About to experience your own rural-urban divide at the Thanksgiving table? We’ve got you covered with this recording and summary of our recent Rural Voter event from @rural-reconcile.bsky.social www.ruralreconcile.org/ruralreview/...

Just sent a mass email reminding everyone that submissions for ALPS annual meeting in Australia are due NOVEMBER 30... which is true, but I called the 30th a Friday when it's actually this Saturday. (Sigh. How's your Monday?!) Alas, the deadline IS THIS WEEK. Join us! alps-law.org/call-for-pap...

Surprising results here. I feel like more energy scholars should pay attention to what is happening (and, in terms of some renewable energy development, also not happening) in Nebraska here:

In such uncertain times, feeling gratitude this morning for the many scholars who showed up last week from across disciplines (law, planning, sociology, history, anthropology) and jurisdictions to engage deeply with hard questions of spatial justice - climate, health, food, crime, energy, & more.

If your workshop doesn’t give you a workshop tattoo, maybe join us at Law and Rurality instead.

Unclear why my face looks like this? news.unl.edu/article/shoe...

When everything else feels hard, I highly recommend writing a tenure letter for a colleague you really admire.

Parenting teens. Remembering there are future seasons.

Gulp. Here we go! news.unl.edu/article/shoe...

Positive self-talk on a Monday.

This week's roundup shares recent work by Matthew M. Brooks and Shelley Clark (@mcgillu.bsky.social) on family formation in rural America, Grete Gansauer on place-based policies, and news & commentary on changing rural populations. #rural ##https://www.ruralreconcile.org/ruralreview/roundup110824

Now building a law twitter list here. Let me know if you would like to be added. Starting to scroll through followers now to add.

As we all stress-distract or stress-obsess about election results, this may be a good time to re-up the current @ALPSLawProp Call for Proposals. Who wants to join me in Australia in late May? CFP deadline Nov. 30. alps-law.org/call-for-pap...

Looking forward to our Fall 2024 Law and Rurality Workshop in a few weeks. Schedule now public, with great appreciation to our friends and local hosts at the University of Iowa for putting these final details together: www.ruralreconcile.org/programs/fal...

Love that feeling when you find archival scholarship that ties together so many things you've been working on in the present day. Why haven't I been studying the Indian Claims Commission this whole time? My superficial understanding missed so much.

Rural Voter event today at noon CT. Join from where you are: go.unl.edu/ruralvoter @rural-reconcile.bsky.social