Ann Eisenberg: Law and Political Economy in Rural America (video)
Professor Ann Eisenberg kicked off our 2021-2022 Rural Reconciliation Project program series on RURAL INFRASTRUCTURE with a focus on JOBS. Her talk, Law and Political Economy in Rural America, can be viewed here.
Professor Eisenberg is a professor at the University of South Carolina School of Law. Her research applies the lens of law and political economy to rural marginalization, examining how law, policy, and public institutions influence rural economic opportunity.
Professor Eisenberg’s career focused on community development began with her service in the Peace Corps in Morocco from 2006 to 2008 and has been informed by her work as a practitioner as well as a scholar. Since her Peace Corps service, she has conducted work in Morocco, India, West Virginia, and South Carolina on issues related to rural development. She created South Carolina’s transactional Environmental Law Clinic, and her other courses include Property, Water Law, Law and the Urban/Rural Divide, and Interviewing, Counseling, and Negotiation. Prior to entering academia, Professor Eisenberg worked as a staff attorney for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit in St. Louis, Missouri.
prior work
Professor Eisenberg has written extensively about economic and environmental justice in rural America. Two of her most recent articles have been digested on The Rural Review here:
