Imagining new property relations – Rural Transformations in the United States

Tune in to a discussion on how imagining new property relations could impact rural communities featuring Duke law professor Jed Purdy, Jessica Shoemaker from the Nebraska College of Law, and Ann Eisenberg from West Virginia College of Law. Seminar will be held July 11m 2024 from 12:00 to 1:30 pm EST.

Some of the most promising advances in sustainable and equitable development are unfolding in rural settings. Here, a diverse group of stakeholders are reshaping food systems, leveraging local knowledge, bolstering climate resilience, and enhancing community participation in the developmental journey. The Duke World Food Policy Center is proud to co-sponsor the Rural Transformations in the United States visual seminar series, hosted by the Center on Modernity in Transition (COMIT).

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Speakers

• Jed Purdy is Raphael Lemkin Distinguished Professor of Law at Duke Law School. He is the author of This Land Is Our Land: The Struggle for a New Commonwealth (Princeton University Press) and After Nature: A Politics for the Anthropocene (Harvard University Press).
• Jessica Shoemaker is Steinhart Foundation Distinguished Professor of Law at Nebraska College of Law. She is a Founding Fellow of the Rural Futures Institute, the current Program Chair for the Association of Law, Property, and Society, and Co-Creator of the Rural Reconciliation Project.
• Ann Eisenberg is Professor of Law and Research Director for the Center for Energy and Sustainable Development at West Virginia College of Law. She is author of the forthcoming Reviving Rural America: Toward Policies for Resilience (Cambridge University Press).

Moderators

• Kerilyn Schewel is a Board Member of COMIT. She is co-director of the Duke Program on Climate-Related Migration and Lecturing Fellow in the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University. Her research examines the relationship between migration and development, with a current focus on immobility, rural livelihoods, and climate change. Her book, Moved by Modernity: How Development Shapes Migration in Rural Ethiopia, is forthcoming with Oxford University Press.
• Lee Miller is a Senior Research Fellow at COMIT. He is a Lecturing Fellow at Duke Law School, where he teaches on agricultural and environmental law. Miller also has amassed expertise in environmental advocacy, policy innovation, and coalition-building in U.S. food and farm movements. At the Harvard Law School Food Law and Policy Clinic, Miller coordinated a multi-law school farm bill research project promoting agricultural sustainability and justice.