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Hosted by UI College of Law. This symposium "will bring together scholars, community leaders, and professionals who work with rural populations and in rural spaces. During the symposium, attendees will be invited to collaborate in theorizing rurality, share how it impacts their work, examine how rurality is represented and celebrated, and problem-solve challenges faced by rural communities, both in Iowa and elsewhere." Forthcoming March 2026.
Hosted by Rural Reconciliation Project. "This Rural Law and Policy Seminar Series is the first step in a wider effort to facilitate more robust engagement—across disciplines—around the difficult questions facing rural America."
Hosted by WVU Law Review. "A diverse discussion surrounding laws and policies that have contributed to the urban/rural divide and the aspiration of an alternative, more resilient and more just future." March 2025.
Hosted by LPE Project. "LPE offers the theoretical tools to conceptualize a way forward in rural communities, not just for their benefit, but for the benefit of all...These contributions, which range from property law to social movements to utilities regulation, and which include stories stretching from Kentucky to Alaska to Wisconsin, are tied together by the need for radical change in rural America." March 2023.
Hosted by University of Richmond Law Review. "Presentations focused on specific legal issues facing rural communities as well as the urban-rural divide. Topics included access to justice in rural America, water resources in indigenous communities, the coal industry’s degradation of Appalachian communities, electoral system reform to enhance rural representation, Virginia-specific policy recommendations, and a panel of esteemed authors and litigators discussing pharmaceutical companies’ roles in perpetuating the opioid epidemic in the region." February 2023.
Hosted by South Dakota Law Review. "Marking the 10-year anniversary of South Dakota's Project Rural Practice," the "symposium will provide a great opportunity to delve into the vital role of rural attorneys in our legal system, exploring an array of topics that are central to rural practice." September 2023.
Hosted by Rural Reconciliation project. "Land and water are essential rural resources, but increasingly their ownership, control, and benefits are all decoupled from rural livelihoods. Both land and water are actively being reimagined as assets to be managed, marketed, and financialized, often on balance sheets in distant boardrooms. These changing ownership patterns also intersect with what has been described as a slow-moving ecological catastrophe and a looming social and economic crisis. Today’s rural realities were not inevitable; neither are tomorrow’s. As we gather in 2023 for this Land & Water research series, we ask: Who really owns rural America?"
Hosted by WVU Law Review. "The purpose of the conference is to bring together people from various disciplines to have a serious conversation about the legal and public policy issues faced by Appalachia and to collaborate to develop innovative solutions to those challenges in keeping with what Jeff Biggers describes as 'Appalachia’s best-kept secret': Far from being a “strange land with peculiar people,” the mountains and hills have been a stage for some of the most quintessential and daring American experiences of innovation, rebellion, and social change.'"
