Event Summary: Law & Rurality Workshop (Fall 2025)
Together with Professor Hannah Haksgaard of the University of South Dakota Knudson School of Law, the Rural Reconciliation Project team was happy to co-host the Fall 2025 Law and Rurality Workshop on Friday, November 14, 2025.
This annual workshop rotates online and in-person events each year. In 2025, we were on Zoom again with six in-progress papers (with commentators), eight incubator presentations, and a total of 23 participants from the US and Australia.
Participant highlights include:
Ted De Barbieri (Albany), Negotiating Benefits Sharing Frameworks
Uma Outka (Kansas) and Danielle Stokes (Richmond), Local Voices in Streamlined Siting Regimes
Brian Farrell (Iowa) & Daria Fisher Page (Iowa), Legal Deserts, Indigent Defense, and the Rural Practice Ecosystem: Observations from Iowa
Cory Dodds (Kentucky), Snap Decision: Rural Bias in Food Stamps Trafficking Disqualifications
Alyse Bertenthal (Wake Forest), The Green Fourth Amendment
Daniel B. Rosenbaum (Michigan State), Non-Reforming Local Government
Emma Scott (Vermont), Conservation & land preservation targets and impacts on rural communities
Sarah Swan (Rutgers), The Radical World of Rural Litigation
Hiba Hafiz (Boston College), Unfree Labor: The Legal Geography of Work
Judy Harrison (Charles Darwin University – Northern Institute), Can Remote Area and Rural Discrimination be Recognized?
Cassie Chambers Armstrong (Louisville), Protective orders in rural & urban contexts
Felipe Guevara (New Mexico), Community-Centered Legal Advocacy in Rural New Mexico: Examining the Efficacy and Impacts of Movement Lawyering Practices
Hannah Haksgaard (South Dakota), Essay on State Governments Running Rural Lawyer Incentive Programs
Katie Harvey (Northwestern), Attorney Advertising, Image, and Access to Justice
We also acknowledge the following scholars who served as helpful commentators and discussants on particular papers: Ann Eisenberg (West Virginia); Jessica Shoemaker (Nebraska); Shaun Jamison (Purdue Global); Ezra Rosser (American); Anthony Schutz (Nebraska); and Adam Thimmesch (Nebraska).
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We look forward to hosting another workshop—in person at the University of South Dakota—in Fall 2026. Follow this page for more information as details develop.
