jessicashoemaker.bsky.social
Law Prof | Fulbright Scholar | Carnegie Fellow Property Law, Land Tenure, Rural People and Places Research: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=670021 Engagement: https://www.ruralreconcile.org/
👤 Joined on 25 September 2023
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@jessicashoemaker.bsky.social@jessicashoemaker.bsky.social & @jamesftierney.bsky.social's Article reveals how property, corporate, and securities law are fueling a new rural land grab, turning farmland into a financialized asset. They advance democratic alternatives to protect rural communities and sustainable food systems.
Show PostProf. Shoemaker co-organized a discussion on the structural frameworks for teaching property law, and presented in-progress paper "Contesting and Reimagining the Boundaries of Land Governance in Settler States," during the Association for Law, Property, and Society annual meeting this summer. #NELaw
Show PostProf. Shoemaker published (with former Nebraska Law professor @jamesftierney.bsky.social) "Absentee Ownership and the Berle-Means Firm," in the peer-reviewed Journal of European Economic History. Read more ›› buff.ly/YwyAuoa #NELaw
Show PostWhat happens when farmland becomes just another financial asset? Our latest digest shares recent work by Project co-creator(!) @jessicashoemaker.bsky.social and @jamesftierney.bsky.social on the possibilities and limitations of regulatory responses.
Show PostAnd for Scott Bessent, a soy farmer, he is because like much of property law, private equity funds are entering into the ag space: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers...., and yes, that is bad.
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