Professor Shoemaker was selected, along with fourteen other faculty researchers, to participate in the inaugural Rural Futures Institute Faculty Fellows program. RFI Faculty Fellows are professors and researchers who have contributed significantly to rural communities and people through research, teaching and outreach and intend to continue to strengthen the statewide, national and international knowledge resource of rural. Shoemaker’s research focuses on rural land tenure (including Indian land tenure), community economic development, agriculture, and energy.
Watch Professor Shoemaker discuss her involvement with RFI: https://youtu.be/dnoxoOZmQos
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In the fall edition of Great Plains Research, Professor Jessica Shoemaker was announced as one of ten scholars invited to serve a three-year term on the journal’s inaugural editorial board. Great Plains Research is a peer-reviewed journal that began 25 years ago. Under the direction of new Editor-in-Chief Peter Longo the journal will continue to publish “excellent research on a range of topics relevant to the Great Plains region,” while striving to be more engaging and supportive of work that defies disciplinary classification.
Additional information about the future of Great Plains Research is available here: http://muse.jhu.edu/article/638700.
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Professor Jessica Shoemaker's recent article, "Complexity's Shadow: American Indian Property, Sovereignty, and the Future," has been published by the Michigan Law Review. The article offers a comprehensive approach to analyzing the modern American Indian land tenure system and explores particularly how the recent pattern of hyper-categorizing property and sovereignty interests into ever-more granular and interacting jurisdictional variables has exacerbated development and self-governance challenges in Indian Country.
"Complexity’s Shadow" was reviewed by American University professor Ezra Rosser in the Journal of Things We Like, Lots (http://property.jotwell.com/land-tenure-complications-and-development-challenges-on-indian-reservations/) and by Tulane professor Sally Brown Richardson on the PropertyProf Blog (http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/property/2017/03/finding-the-intersection-of-american-indian-law-and-property-law.html#).
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Professor Jessica Shoemaker was an invited speaker at the Agricultural & Food Law Section program at the AALS annual meeting. Professor Shoemaker’s talk, “Food, Agriculture, and the Future of American Indian Land Tenure,” previews her current work on transformational property system reforms.
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Professor Shoemaker was invited to speak at the University of Virginia Law School as part of their inaugural Shaping Justice Conference. Shoemaker’s panel focused on economic justice and legal tools for wealth building in distressed communities.
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Professor Shoemaker presented as an invited honorary speaker for an Ignite Session at the 2017 Midwest Fish and Wildlife Conference in Lincoln. The presentation to 700-800 fish and wildlife professionals and university biologists and students discussed about the role of law, policy, and civic engagement—especially in the context of rural land use planning and private property land tenure—in shaping the sustainability of rural landscapes.
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Professor Shoemaker was quoted in the Desert Sun regarding the Corbell Settlement. Full article: http://www.desertsun.com/story/news/nation/2016/09/22/tribal-land-restoration-cobell-settlement/88835362/.