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Annie Eisenberg

@profeisenberg.bsky.social

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Law prof - energy justice, local government, property, rural economic development. Based in Pittsburgh, teach at WVU. www.anneisenberg.com

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Annie Eisenberg @profeisenberg.bsky.social · May 23

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Annie Eisenberg @profeisenberg.bsky.social · Apr 22

I'm happy to share that my latest article, "Extracting Clean Energy," will be published in the UC Davis Law Review. Working draft available here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... and abstract below.

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Jessica A. Shoemaker @jessicashoemaker.bsky.social · Apr 9

As markets churn and world orders reset, @jamesftierney.bsky.social and I have a new piece forthcoming in Yale Law Journal that couldn't be more timely. "Trading Acres" traces the risks of farmland financialization and analyzes the role of law in this ongoing rural land grab. 🧵

Abstract - Trading Acres - forthcoming Yale Law Journal - Jessica A Shoemaker and James Fallows Tierney - Farms are places where people live their lives, sustain their families, and produce food and fiber for the wider community. And now, farms are assets swept up into global financial channels—converting before our eyes from repositories of the best of our agrarian ideals into paper playthings for the very rich. This asset-class-ification of farmland echoes patterns of financialization occurring across other elements of our daily lives, including housing, and compounds wider crises of concentration and industrialization in agriculture. But as an active land grab unfolds across rural America, farmland’s recent capture by absentee investors is particularly concerning. Farmland’s conversion to asset class threatens rural livelihoods, agriculture and food system resilience, and economic and spatial justice. In this article, we argue that Wall Street’s arrival at rural America’s gate is not merely a market trend but rather the product of deep social choices governing the accumulation of investor wealth: property, corporate, and securities law. We explore the ways in which these deep structures of our legal system—from the primacy of market logics to a range of biases that skew our spatial, temporal, and social relations—constitute the conditions for this profound transformation in the way farmland, as a basic and essential rural resource, is being integrated into the modern capital economy. Together, business and property law create the conditions for land concentration, rural depopulation, environmental degradation, and labor exploitation. Today’s rural land grab is meeting little resistance. But historically, investor-owned farmland was seen as a deep and politically-motivating threat to rural life. We situate past reform attempts to rein in financialized farmland and conclude that many attempts failed because modest doctrinal interventions result in playing shell gam…

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Annie Eisenberg @profeisenberg.bsky.social · Mar 26

Thank you @danielraimi.bsky.social for the chance to talk about my book, Reviving Rural America, on the @rff.org podcast this week: www.resources.org/resources-ra...

Seeding Economic Development in Rural America, with Ann Eisenberg

Ann Eisenberg discusses economic challenges facing rural US communities and the strategies that can promote economic stability in these communities.

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · Mar 11

Democratic Senator Chris Murphy on Mahmoud Khalil.

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Jonathan Feingold @jpygold.bsky.social · Feb 21

We urge university leaders to respond confidently, with law and moral principle on your side, and not to sacrifice essential and legally defensible DEI initiatives that help universities fulfill their most basic mission to pursue truth and knowledge for the common good.

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Annie Eisenberg @profeisenberg.bsky.social · Jan 13

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Annie Eisenberg @profeisenberg.bsky.social · Jan 13

Hello, Bluesky! After a great #AALS2025, it seems like time to engage here. Most importantly, if you’re interested in the urban/rural divide & skeptical of agglomeration economics, please consider buying my new book, Reviving Rural America: Toward Policies for Resilience tinyurl.com/y4prp39x

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Ntina Tzouvala @ntinatzouvala.bsky.social · Nov 13

Though our picture of the rural ruling class remains quite murky, the core coalition comprises the beneficiaries of low wage, slow growth economy along with the chamber of commerce types who depend upon these sectors for their livelihood. lpeproject.org/blog/the-pol...

The Political Economy of the Urban-Rural Divide

Though the urban-rural divide can sometimes appear like a primordial fault line in American political life, it is a relatively recent development. The Democratic Party’s collapse in the countryside…

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