In Toward a New Compact With Rural America, the foreword to the University of Richmond Law Review's Symposium, Overlooked America: Addressing Legal Issues in Rural United States, Anthony F. Pipa (Center for Sustainable Development, Brookings Institution) introduces the Symposium by outlining the challenges rural America faces and how public policy is the potential solution.

A periodic collection of recent research, analysis, and other notable rural items.

In Geographies of Land Ownership Change in the Rural United States: Challenges, Methods, and Possibilities, Lindsay Shade (Community and Leadership Development, University of Kentucky) and Levi Van Sant (Integrative Studies, George Mason University) outline the challenges and potential solutions to researching geographies of land ownership in rural United States. Their research draws on their experiences with a participatory action research project, the Appalachian Land Study.

In The Scandal of Particularity: A New Approach to Rural Attorney Shortages and Access to Justice, author Michele Statz (Minnesota Medical School/Law) discusses the challenges of fully understanding the rural attorney shortage and its impact on rural communities through interviews from those involved in the justice system in various rural and tribal communities.

A periodic collection of recent research, analysis, and other notable rural items.

Announcing the Fall 2024 Law and Ruraity Workshop Call or Papers. Workshop on Friday, November 15, 2024, and submission deadline of August 16, 2024.

A reading list of rural-related literature curated by the Rural Reconciliation Project. This collection focuses on rural violence and notions of justice in rural communities.

A periodic collection of recent research, analysis, and other notable rural items.

Event announcement. Join Dana Fritz, Hixson-Lied Professor of Art, Art History and Design, for an important reflection on how humans make, shape, and understand landscapes. Like a virtual fieldtrip to the Nebraska Sandhills, but through the lens of the most thoughtful and introspective of guides, visual artist Fritz will discuss and share photographs from her new book, “Field Guide to a Hybrid Landscape.” The book examines, in provocative ways, the unique hand-planted forest of the Bessey Ranger District and now includes some of the last images captured before the 2022 wildfires near Halsey. Event on February 21, 2024, at 4pm at the University of Nebraska College of Law.

A periodic collection of recent research, analysis, and other notable rural items.

In Exploring the Impacts of Rurality on Service Access and Harm Among Image and Performance Enhancing Drug (IPED) Users in a Remote English Region, Luke A. Turnock (Social and Political Sciences, University of Lincoln, UK) and Kyle J. D. Mulrooney (Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, University of New England, Australia) consider the underexplored geographic and cultural impacts of rurality on IPED usage, particularly in relation to access to harm reduction service.