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Jessica A. Shoemaker

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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/

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Business Scholarship Podcast - Ep.254 – Jessica Shoemaker and James Tierney on Financializing...
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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

05.08.2025 15:53 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Also, Nebraska is beautiful.

29.07.2025 14:23 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Sunset across the high plains.

Sunset across the high plains.

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

27.07.2025 12:07 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Hisey et al.: Fears and Fences: Bison on the Canadian Prairies β€” 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...

Check out our digest of β€ͺ@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:

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Warner and Salazar: Shared Stewardship β€” The Rural Reconciliation Project In Shared Stewardship, El izabeth Kronk Warne r and JesΓΊs 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 JesΓΊs 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 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

This is a super interesting piece - hope people read the whole article. @sjquinney.bsky.social

04.06.2025 16:09 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 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 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 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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Call for Proposals - Law & Rurality Workshop - Fall 2023 (Virtual) β€” The Rural Reconciliation Project Call for Proposals for online Law & Rurality Workshop to be co-hosted by University of Nebraska College of Law Rural Reconciliaton Project and the University of South Dakota Knudson School of Law. Det...

Full CFP here: www.ruralreconcile.org/cfp-lrwip2025

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Law & Rurality Workshop (handdrawn logo with a coffee cup with Rural Reconciliation Project logo) - Hosted Online - Fall 2025

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 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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Gansauer: A Taxonomy of β€˜Bidenomics’ β€” The Rural Reconciliation Project In For Growth or Equity: A Taxonomy of β€˜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 β€˜Bidenomics’ classifies 4 major policy types targeting regional inequality and is a great place to start:

19.05.2025 15:45 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

These replies are what I needed today.

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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 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 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.

05.05.2025 15:49 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

This literally just changed my life.

25.04.2025 12:32 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Hi Kathryn! Happy to share the working draft - do you mind sending an email? I’ll follow up!

23.04.2025 11:55 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Thanks Brandon!

12.04.2025 17:04 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Thanks Nicole! Connects to so much of your important work on housing for sure.

10.04.2025 17:40 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 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 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

MERS has entered the chat….

09.04.2025 17:26 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Information Anticommons? All these county/local county recording offices just a perennial data problem...

09.04.2025 17:13 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 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 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Quaint little memory of long ago... :)

09.04.2025 17:02 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Who Owns Rural America: Land & Water Workshop Review β€” The Rural Reconciliation Project This July, the Rural Reconciliation Project hosted interdisciplinary scholars in Lincoln, Nebraska, to discuss pressing issues related to the changing ownership of land and water resources.

Similar to this, where James and I presented the earliest version of what became this Trading Acres piece: www.ruralreconcile.org/ruralreview/...

09.04.2025 16:41 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Nice! Will look forward to reading. Keep us in mind next spring, too. We're currently planning an interdisciplinary workshop as part of @rural-reconcile.bsky.social on corporate power and rural democracy here in Lincoln. Really fantastic folks already committed.

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Appreciate you, Doron. Thanks.

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Fall 2024 Law and Rurality Workshop β€” The Rural Reconciliation Project 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.

Thanks, Maybell. How about that Law and Rurality Workshop?! www.ruralreconcile.org/programs/fal...

09.04.2025 16:30 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Absentee ownership and the "Berle-Means Farm" Farmland ownership has increasingly echoed older forms of domination, with investor takeover of land rising globally over the last several decades, driven by fi

Send us that! Connected forces and stories, for sure. FWIW, we also have shorter somewhat related piece that will be out in about month in the Journal of European Economic History here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

09.04.2025 16:29 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Closely interwoven stories for sure. Thanks so much, Kali.

09.04.2025 16:27 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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