28 Mar 2024
Professor Jessica Shoemaker was an invited panelist at the Land, Climate and Justice Conference presented by the University of Virginia School of Law Program in Law, Communities and the Environment. Shoemaker presented a work-in-progress project, “Privatizing the Countryside.”
The conference provides a setting for interdisciplinary conversations about a range of topics, including property rights, land-use regulation, housing, sustainability, environmental justice, segregation, metropolitan inequality, cities, rural communities and federal-state-local relations.
At Nebraska Law, Shoemaker is the Steinhart Foundation Distinguished Professor of Law and co- directs The Rural Reconciliation Project. She has been recognized for her work on adaptive change in pluralistic land-tenure systems, as well as property law’s power to shape the contours of human communities and natural environments.