Jessica A. Shoemaker
Barbara Wittmann Schaefer Chair of Law
Jessica Shoemaker is the Barbara Wittmann Schaefer Chair of Law at the University of Nebraska and the director of the Rural Reconciliation Project, an interdisciplinary research and engagement project that she co-founded. A prolific scholar, Shoemaker teaches and writes about land, property, and the changing contours of the American countryside.
Anthony Schutz
Associate Dean for Faculty & Marvin and Virginia Schmid Foundation Professor of Agricultural Law
Professor Schutz has been with the law school for nearly all of the last 20 years, beginning in 2000. During law school, he worked for Cline, Williams, Wright, Johnson, and Oldfather in Lincoln, Nebraska, and was editor-in-chief of the Nebraska Law Review. He graduated in 2003 with the highest distinction and clerked for the Honorable C. Arlen Beam of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit until 2005. During the 2004-2005 academic year he also taught Legal Research and Writing at the College of Law as an adjunct instructor.