Writing a book is hard. At least my kids still surprise me and make me laugh.
Jessica A. Shoemaker
@jessicashoemaker.bsky.social
Law Prof | Fulbright Scholar | Carnegie Fellow Property Law, Land Tenure, Rural People and Places Research: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=670021 Engagement: https://www.ruralreconcile.org/
@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.
Shoemaker & Tierney: Trading Acres — The Rural Reconciliation Project
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...
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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:
Roundup: October 10, 2025 — The Rural Reconciliation Project
A periodic collection of recent research, analysis, and other notable rural items.
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📢 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 Aren’t We Talking About Rural Voters Anymore? — The Rural Reconciliation Project
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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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
Business Scholarship Podcast - Ep.254 – Jessica Shoemaker and James Tierney on Financializing...
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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:
Hisey et al.: Fears and Fences: Bison on the Canadian Prairies — The Rural Reconciliation Project
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...
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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.
Warner and Salazar: Shared Stewardship — The Rural Reconciliation Project
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...
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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....
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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
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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:
Gansauer: A Taxonomy of ‘Bidenomics’ — The Rural Reconciliation Project
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...
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This literally just changed my life.
Dr Kat Day (she/her) 🌖@chronicleflask.katday.com · last yr.This is your occasional reminder that typing “-ai” before your search term is pretty effective at preventing the often-inaccurate Ai summaries (Yes, I know there are other ways: this is the quickest and easiest to remember)
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.
Ashwood et al.: Empty Fields, Empty Promises — The Rural Reconciliation Project
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...
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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.
Roundup: March 18, 2025 — The Rural Reconciliation Project
A periodic collection of recent research, analysis, and other notable rural items.
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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
Rescheduled! - Eminent Domain: After the Pipeline — The Rural Reconciliation Project
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.
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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.
Shoemaker’s article reviewed in JOTWELL | College of Law | Nebraska
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…
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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
Shoemaker: Re-Placing Property — The Rural Reconciliation Project
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...
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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."
Jotwell@jotwell.bsky.social · 2y agoJotwell Property latest: Yael Lifshitz, Land as Land and Land as Wealth, JOTWELL (January 22, 2025) (reviewing Jessica A. Shoemaker, Re-Placing Property, 91 Chi. L. Rev. 811 (2024)), property.jotwell.com/land-as-land...
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.
