Rural America: Legal and Interdisciplinary Research Guide

Select Law Review Articles: Rural America

• Hannah Alsgaard, Rural Inheritance: Gender Disparities in Farm Transmission, 88 N.D. L. REV. 347 (2012)

• Michelle W. Anderson, Sprawl's Shepherd: The Rural County, 100 CALIF. L. REV. 365 (2012)

• Michelle W. Anderson, The Western, Rural Rustbelt: Learning from Local Fiscal Crisis in Oregon, 50 WILLAMETTE L. REV. 465 (2014)

• Craig Anthony Arnold, The Structure of the Land Use Regulatory System in the United States, 22 J. LAND USE & ENVTL. L. 441 (2007)

• Madeline Bailey & Jennifer Peirce, Reversing the Rural Jail Population Boom, 57 IDAHO L. REV. 525 (2021)

• Priya Baskaran, Lessons from West Virginia: Leveraging Law Clinics to Facilitate Broadband Infrastructure Development, 56 IND. L. REV. 531 (2023)

• Priya Baskaran, Thirsty Places, 2021 UTAH L. REV. 501 (2021) 

• Debra Lyn Bassett, Ruralism, 88 IOWA L. REV. 273 (2003)

• Maggie Blackhawk, Federal Indian Law as Paradigm within Public Law, 132 HARV. L. REV. 1787 (2019)

• Maggie Blackhawk, The Constitution of American Colonialism, 137 HARV. L. REV. 1 (2023)

• Stephanie Hall Barclay & Michalyn Steele, Rethinking Protections for Indigenous Sacred Sites, 134 HARV. L. REV. 1294 (2021)

• Luke A. Boso, Urban Bias, Rural Sexual Minorities, and the Courts, 60 UCLA L. Rev. 562 (2013)

• Kristen A. Carpenter & Angela R. Riley, Indigenous Peoples and the Jurisgenerative Moment in Human Rights, 102 CALIF. L. REV. 173 (2014)

• Stephen Carpenter, Family Farm Advocacy and Rebellious Lawyering 24 CLINICAL L. REV. 79 (2017)

• Stephen Carpenter, The USDA Discrimination Cases: Pigford, In re Black Farmers, Keepseagle, Garcia, and Love, 17 DRAKE J. AGRIC. L. 1 (2012)

• Henry L. Chambers Jr., Enhancing Rural Representation through Electoral System Diversity, 57 U. RICH. L. REV. 851 (2023)

• Linda L. Chezem, Public Health Law & Equal Access to Justice in Rural America, 59 S.D. L. REV. 529 (2014)

• Madison Condon, Rural America's Drinking Water Crisis, 44 HUM. RTS. 12 (2019)

• Ann M. Eisenberg, Extracting Clean Energy (forthcoming)

• Ann M. Eisenberg, Distributive Justice and Rural America, 61 B.C. L. REV. 189 (2020)

• Ann M. Eisenberg, Just Transitions, 92 S. CAL. L. REV. 273 (2019) 

• Ann M. Eisenberg, Rural America as a Commons, 57 U. RICH. L. REV. 769 (2023)

• Ann M. Eisenberg, Rural Blight, 13 HARV. L. & POL'Y REV. 187 (2018)

• Marianne Engelman Lado & Kenneth Rumelt, Pipeline Struggles: Case Studies in Ground up Lawyering, 45 HARV. ENVTL. L. REV. 377 (2021)

• Katherine Garvey, Local Protection of Natural Resources after JAM Golf: Standards and Standard of Review, 11 VT. J. ENVTL. L. 145 (2009)

• Carmen G. Gonzales, Trade Liberalization, Food Security, and the Environment: The Neoliberal Threat to Sustainable Rural Development, 14 TRANSNAT'L L. & CONTEMP. PROBS. 420 (2004)

• Hiba Hafiz, The Law of Geographic Labor Market Inequality, 172 U. PA. L. REV. 1183 (2024)

• Hannah Haksgaard, Rural Practice as Public Interest Work, 71 ME. L. REV. 209 (2019)

• Hannah Haksgaard, Court-Appointment Compensation and Rural Access to Justice, 14 U. ST. THOMAS J.L. & PUB. POL'Y 88 (2020)

• Hannah Haksgard, Defining "Home" through Homestead Laws, 33 BERKELEY J. GENDER L. & JUST. 169 (2018)

• Anne Marie Lofaso, What We Owe Our Coal Miners, 5 HARV. L. & POL'Y REV. 87 (2011)

• Anne Marie Lofaso & Nicholas F. Stump, Labor and Environment Entwined: A Radical Green New Deal and Just Transition in Appalachia, 127 W. VA. L. REV. (2025) 

• Alexandra Klass, Joshua Macey, Shelley Welton & Hannah Wiseman, Grid Reliability through Clean Energy, 74 STAN. L. REV. 969 (2022)

• Jena Martin & Karon Powell, Parallel Worlds: Comparing Rural Development to Development in Global Communities, 120 W. VA. L. REV. 1107 (2018)

• Patrick C. McGinley, From Pick and Shovel to Mountaintop Removal: Environmental Injustice in the Appalachian Coalfields, 34 ENVTL. L. 21 (2004)

• Patrick C. McGinley, Environmental Injustice and Racism: Making the Connection in Classrooms and Courtrooms, 96 W. VA. L. REV. 1017 (1994)

• Thomas W. Mitchell, Destabilizing the Normalization of Rural Black Land Loss: A Critical Role for Legal Empiricism, 2005 WIS. L. REV. 557 (2005)

• Mary Otoo, Beyond Discriminatory Intent: Agriculture, Labor Rights, and the Shortcomings of Equal Protection Doctrine, 55 COLUM. J.L. & SOC. PROBS. 237 (2022)

• Anthony F. Pipa, Foreword: Toward a New Compact With Rural America, 57 U. RICH. L. REV. 763 (2023)

• Katherine Porter, Going Broke the Hard Way: The Economics of Rural Failure, 2005 WIS. L. REV. 969 (2005)

• Emily E. Prifogle, Rural Social Safety Nets for Migrant Farmworkers in Michigan, 1942–1971 46 LAW & SOCIAL INQUIRY 1022 (2021)

• Emily A. Prifogle, Law and Local Activism: Uncovering the Civil Rights History of Chambers v. Mississippi, 101 CAL. L. REV. 445 (2013)

• Emily A. Prifogle, Winks, Whispers, and Prosecutorial Discretion in Rural Iowa, 1925-1928, 79 ANNALS OF IOWA 247 (2020)

• Lisa R. Pruitt, Toward a Feminist Theory of the Rural, 2007 UTAH L. REV. 421 (2007)

• Lisa R. Pruitt, Amanda L. Kool , Lauren Sudeall, Michele Statz, Danielle M. Conway & Hannah Haksgaard, Legal Deserts: A Multi-State Perspective on Rural Access to Justice, 13 HARV. L. & POL'Y REV. 15 (2018)

• Lisa R. Pruitt, Latina/os, Locality, and the Law in the Rural South, 12 HARV. LATINO L. REV. 135 (2009) 

• Lisa R. Pruitt, Gender, Geography & Rural Justice, 23 BERKELEY J. GENDER L. & JUST. 338 (2008)

• Jedediah Purdy, The Long Environmental Justice Movement, 44 ECOLOGY L.Q. 809 (2018)

• Jesse J. Richardson Jr. & Amber S. Miller, Solutions for Heirs Property Owners, 28 DRAKE J. AGRIC. L. 139 (2023)

• Jesse J. Richardson Jr., Country Roads, Take Me to Home Rule, 54 STETSON L. REV. 1 (2024)

• Anna di Robilant, Populist Property Law, 49 CONN. L. REV. 933 (2017)

• Alan Romero, Extraterritorial Land Use Regulation and Bridging the Urban-Rural Divide, 87 UMKC L. REV. 867 (2019)

• Maybell Romero, Rural Spaces, Communities of Color, and the Progressive Prosecutor, 110 J. CRIM. L. & CRIMINOLOGY 803 (2020)

• Ezra Rosser, Rural Housing and Code Enforcement: Navigating between Values and Housing Types, 13 GEO. J. ON POVERTY L. & POL'Y 33 (2006)

• Ezra Rosser, Ahistorical Indians and Reservation Resources, 40 ENVTL. L. 437 (2010) 

• Nathan A. Rosenberg & Bryce Wilson Stucki, The Butz Stops Here: Why the Food Movement Needs to Rethink Agricultural History, 13 J. FOOD L. & POL'Y 12 (2017) 

• Wyatt G. Sassman, The Legal Foundations of Extractive Power, 71 UCLA L. REV. 66 (2024)

• Wyatt G. Sassman & Danielle C. Jefferis, Beyond Emissions: Migration, Prisons, and the Green New Deal, 51 ENV'T L. 161 (2021)

• Wyatt G. Sassman, Prioritizing Proximity in Phasing Out Oil and Gas Extraction, 55 CONN. L. REV. 749 (2023)

• Wyatt G Sassman, Community Empowerment in Decarbonization: NEPA's Role, 96 WASH. L. REV. 1511 (2021)

• Anthony B. Schutz, Toward a More Multi-Functional Rural Landscape: Community Approaches to Rural Land Stewardship, 22 FORDHAM ENVTL. L. REV. 633 (2011)

• Anthony B. Schutz, Agricultural Nuisance Liability in Nebraska after LB 227, NEB. L. REV. ONLINE (2019)

• Anthony B. Schutz, Nebraska's Corporate-Farming Law and Discriminatory Effects Under the Dormant Commerce Clause, 88 NEB. L. REV. 50 (2009)

• Jessica A. Shoemaker, Fee Simple Failures: Rural Landscapes and Race, 119 MICH. L. REV. 1695 (2021)

• Jessica A. Shoemaker, Transforming Property: Reclaiming Indigenous Land Tenures, 107 CALIF. L. REV. 1531 (2019) 

• Jessica A. Shoemaker, Complexity's Shadow: American Indian Property, Sovereignty, and the Future, 115 MICH. L. REV. 487 (2017)

• Jessica A. Shoemaker, No Sticks in My Bundle: Rethinking the Indian Land Tenure Problem, 63 U. KAN. L. REV. 383 (2015)

• Michele Statz, On Shared Suffering: Judicial Intimacy in the Rural Northland, 55 L. SOC. REV. 5 (2021)

• Michele Statz, Robert Friday & Jon Bredeson, "They Had Access, but They Didn't Get Justice": Why Prevailing Access to Justice Initiatives Fail Rural Americans, 28 GEO. J. ON POVERTY L. & POL'Y 321 (2021)

• Nicholas F. Stump, Ecosocialism, Degrowth, and Global South Thought: Critical Legal Transformations, 49 WM. & MARY EVT’L L. & POL’Y REV. 367 (2025)

• Nicholas F. Stump & Anne Marie Lofaso, De-Essentializing Appalachia: Transformative Socio-Legal Change Requires Unmasking Regional Myths, 120 W. VA. L. REV. 823 (2018)

• Nicholas F. Stump, Mountain Resistance: Appalachian Civil Disobedience in Critical Legal Research Modeled Law Reform, 41 ENVIRONS: ENVTL. L. & POL'Y J. 69 (2017)

• Nicholas F. Stump, Environmental Law Has Failed: Can Transformative Ecological Change Begin In Appalachia?, RURAL REV. (2021)

• Rick Su, Democracy in Rural America, 98 N.C. L. REV. 837 (2020)

• Rebecca Tsosie, Indigenous People and Environmental Justice: The Impact of Climate Change, 78 U. COLO. L. REV. 1625 (2007)

• Shelley Welton & Conor Harrison, Rural Energy Justice, in HANDBOOK ON ENERGY JUSTICE (2023)

• Hannah J. Wiseman, Regional Cooperative Federalism and the U.S. Electric Grid, 90 GEO. WASH. L. REV. 147 (2022)

• Kathryne M. Young, Legal Ruralism and California Parole Hearings: Space, Place, and the Carceral Landscape, 85 RURAL SOC. 938 (2020)