Professor Jessica Shoemaker had her article, "Emulsified Property," accepted by the Pepperdine Law Review. The article analyzes the complex property and sovereignty institutions within modern American Indian reservations through the lens of mixed tenure (fee and trust co-ownership) properties.
Additionally, Professor Jessica Shoemaker and a transdisciplinary, international research team are working to build on existing land use planning simulation tools, and create a more flexible and powerful simulation resource kit for public participation in land use issues. As part of this project, Professor Shoemaker recently traveled to Birmingham City University in Birmingham, England and to Aberystwyth, Wales.
While in Birmingham and Aberystwyth, Professor Shoemaker presented her work to a diverse group of faculty from a wide variety of different disciplines and countries, international policymakers, and engaged citizens from the United Kingdom. Part of her work includes the planning simulation tool, Plainsopoly. Plainsopoly, has proven to be an exciting engagement tool to facilitate dialogue and learning around contemporary rural development and natural resource issues in the Great Plains.
Professor Shoemaker also held a seminar at Birmingham City University on indigenous land tenure and property law issues.
Finally, Professor Shoemaker presented a new paper tentatively called “The Complexity Problem in American Indian Land Tenure” at the University of Georgia School of Law. The presentation was part of the “Indigenous Land Rights” panel at the Association of Law, Property, and Society annual meeting. Shoemaker also moderated a different panel that day called, “Governing Culture, Things, and Space.”