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This week in Law in Rural America we’re thinking about rural communities and the environment. For those following along, here we go! #RuralLaw 1/
First up is a piece from Caitlin Lewis, which outlines the poor living conditions of rural Latinx communities along the US/Texas border in “Texas Colonias: Injustice by Definition” available here: lawpublications.barry.edu/cgi/viewconten… 2/
You can check out one of the organizations working to combat those poor living conditions in rural colonias called Proyecto Azteca, here: proyectoazteca.org 3/
Usually, I tweet my Law in Rural America course @UMichLaw on Weds, but this week 2 students created FANTASTIC threads outlining what we're working on 👉🏻 Rural #LegalAid + #AccessToJustice. Read the threads, then ask @mvrleegoskv + @HannahPaton12 any Qs you may have! 💯 1/
First up, check out this super informative thread from @mvrleegoskv discussing articles from @lisareneepruitt and Hannah Haksgaard👇🏻 #WomenAlsoKnowLaw #RuralLaw #A2J 2/
Then, read this fantastic content from @HannahPaton12 who also contextualizes the academic readings with media sources for you to read. 🙌🏻 #WomenAlsoKnowLaw #RuralLaw #A2J (3/3 from me)
It seems a bit weird to push the normalcy of my weekly Law in Rural America tweets into your TL, but I've been looking forward to this week in class for so long. So for those following along, it's Rural Voting Power and Access week. #RuralLaw 1/
We're using @BlueJeansNet's breakout groups to do a modified Jigsaw Method discussion covering Rural Voting Power, Prisons and the One Person One Vote Principle, and Native Voting Rights. 2/
Students split up into three reading groups so we could cover hundreds of pages of reading and teach each other the topic we read about. This way a more complicated view of rural voting strength emerges than the typical "rural people are overrepresented in the Senate" take. 3/
This tweet made my evening, day + week. I ❤️@UMichLaw students! Since I didn't post yesterday as usual: here’s what we did in Law in Rural America yesterday for those who have been following along. It was Immigration & Rural Communities Week. #RuralLaw 1/
We read three articles covering primarily Latinx immigration to rural places in the Midwest and South in the 21st century. First up: Sylvia R. Lazos Vargas's 2002 "Latina/o-ization of the Midwest: Cambio de Colores as Agromaquilas Expand into the Heartland. .... 2/
The article was from a LatCrit conference that continues today. You can learn about the @CambioCenter and conference here: cambiodecolores.org/Library/ and read the article here: dsps.lib.uiowa.edu/latino-midwest… 3/
It’s week five in my Law in Rural America seminar for those reading along. This week we’re time traveling through the 20th century to take a look at rural education. 📚#RuralLaw #LegalHistory 1/
We’re starting this week in the early 20C with @TracyLSteffes’s “Solving the ‘Rural School Problem’: New State Aid, Standards, and Supervision of Local Schools, 1900-1933” jstor.org/stable/20462223 2/
Then I’ll take us forward in time by sharing my research on resistance to rural school consolidation legislation in Minnesota between 1967 and 1972 through the lens of an amazing rural school advocate, Margery Burns. 3/ 
It’s week 4 in our Law in Rural America seminar, and we’re packing in so much good stuff on rural land use including rural zoning in Wisconsin, tackling “rural blight,” and rural black land loss + heir property in the South. Read along with us! #RuralLaw 1/
Throughout the semester, I’ve been sharing bits of my own rural legal history research. This week I can’t resist talking about early rural zoners in Wisconsin and how they used it to exclude unwanted community members. 2/
We’re going to spend a lot of time with @Prof_Eisenberg's article, “Rural Blight.” In this article, she tackles local government challenges and solutions to the problem of vacant and uninhabitable rural buildings. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf… 3/
For those of you following along, it’s week 3 in our Law in Rural America seminar. Today we’re thinking about rural courts (civil and criminal) and their role in resolving disputes in rural spaces. #RuralLaw 1/
First: one of my fav law+soc articles, David Engel’s “The Oven Bird’s Song.” jstor.org/stable/3053447… We'll talk about the ways formal legal systems interact w/ rural norms and how rural communities express boundaries between insiders and outsiders through dispute resolution. 2/
Then we’re going to tackle @MaybellRomero's recent “Viewing Access to Justice for Rural Mainers of Color Through A Prosecution Lens.” The article opens up ways to think about racial inequities in rural criminal justice, … 3/
Today's week two of the Law In Rural America seminar, and we're discussing the challenges and scope of rural #LocalGovernment. #RuralLaw 1/
Up first, we’re reading a chapter of Lane Lancaster’s Government in Rural America (2d ed. 1952). He predicted that "[i]n another generation it is quite probable that there will be no distinctive subject matter for a book on rural government." (Yikes!) 2/
(Do other law faculty out there know of other textbooks/casebooks that focus specifically on rural law? Maybe @RichSchragger or @lisareneepruitt?) 3/
I am pumped to finally have the first day of my Law in Rural America seminar at @UMichLaw today!!!!!!! This week we're asking, what is rural anyway? For those following along, here's what we're reading to figure out an answer...
First, Michael Ratcliff from the @uscensusbureau has written concise and useful overviews of how the folks with the Census have historically defined rural. Check out this brief: www2.census.gov/geo/pdfs/refer… and this multi-authored one: www2.census.gov/geo/pdfs/refer…
Of course, no #RuralLaw syllabus would be complete without work from @lisareneepruitt. This week I've assigned a chapter she wrote on the "rural lawscape" in an edited collection on legal geography: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf… ...
