The 2026 Law & Rurality Workshop will be hosted in-person at the University of South Dakota (Vermillion, South Dakota) on Friday, October 9, 2026.

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This Workshop remains a joint project facilitated by the Rural Reconciliation Project at the University of Nebraska College of Law and the University of South Dakota Knudson School of Law, but this year, we are particularly grateful to the University of South Dakota and Professor Hannah Haksgaard for serving as our local host.

The Law & Rurality Workshop is intended for scholars of all levels and disciplines whose work engages with law and its relation to rural people and places. The Workshop provides a forum for scholars to share and receive feedback on draft works-in-progress that address, broadly, any topic related to rurality and the law, including legal issues viewed through the lens of rurality, rural geographies, or rural-urban difference.

Participants will be expected to read and comment on other draft works.

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Important Dates

• Monday, July 27, 2026 - Abstracts and Expressions of Interest Due

• Friday, September 26, 2026 - Workshop Draft Deadline

• Friday, October 9, 2026 - In-Person Workshop

Full details in our linked Call for Papers.

For further context, information about past workshops in this series can be accessed in our archives from 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, and 2021.