Writing a book is hard. At least my kids still surprise me and make me laugh.
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@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.
31.01.2026 17:18 — 👍 20 🔁 14 💬 1 📌 0
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
27.10.2025 17:15 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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...
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.
28.10.2025 21:19 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Roundup: October 10, 2025 — The Rural Reconciliation Project
A periodic collection of recent research, analysis, and other notable rural items.
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:
14.10.2025 16:01 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
YouTube video by Business Scholarship Podcast
Business Scholarship Podcast - Ep.254 – Jessica Shoemaker and James Tierney on Financializing...
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
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Also, Nebraska is beautiful.
29.07.2025 14:23 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
Sunset across the high plains.
10/10 - writing about land while on the land. Interdisciplinary biological stations forever.
27.07.2025 12:07 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
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...
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.
04.06.2025 14:41 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
This is a super interesting piece - hope people read the whole article. @sjquinney.bsky.social
04.06.2025 16:09 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Here's a thread with some context about the project. Truly appreciate any feedback or comments: bsky.app/profile/jess...
27.05.2025 18:58 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Trading Acres
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
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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Law & Rurality Workshop (handdrawn logo with a coffee cup with Rural Reconciliation Project logo) - Hosted Online - Fall 2025
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...
21.05.2025 15:43 — 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 1
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...
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:
19.05.2025 15:45 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
These replies are what I needed today.
15.05.2025 13:29 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
And obviously - "but what about me? what about my child?" - comment/question doesn't undermine that this is great innovation and all exam methodologies impact different people differently, this may reduce concerns for others, etc.
05.05.2025 15:49 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Appreciate this thread & also concern re bias very much. Curious for experience re: accommodations. I have a child who stutters, so this would be total nightmare for her. I'm a little doubtful re: efficacy of accommodations in large-scale subjective grading - but check/plus/minus helps.
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This literally just changed my life.
25.04.2025 12:32 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Hi Kathryn! Happy to share the working draft - do you mind sending an email? I’ll follow up!
23.04.2025 11:55 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Thanks Brandon!
12.04.2025 17:04 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Thanks Nicole! Connects to so much of your important work on housing for sure.
10.04.2025 17:40 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Feel free to send us an email - we welcome comments as we continue to edit and finalize.
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You're my favorite. As you know and hopefully expect, this article would not have been possible without Fields of Gold and all of your brilliant work.
09.04.2025 18:09 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
MERS has entered the chat….
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Information Anticommons? All these county/local county recording offices just a perennial data problem...
09.04.2025 17:13 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Place Matters Maps
Play around with interactive maps that show health-related data collected for the city of Lincoln
Agree, @kalimurray.bsky.social, this is really cool. You or your colleague might also be interested in this somewhat related Lincoln resource, which I share whenever I can! Rental and rental-conversion rates included as part in public health maps: www.chelincoln.org/placematters...
09.04.2025 17:06 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Quaint little memory of long ago... :)
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