Asst Prof @UMichLaw. Legal historian writing book on 20c #rural #Midwest w/@UNC_Press. Teach property + rural law. Co-founder @womnknowhistory + @womenknowlaw.
Apr 22, 2020 • 12 tweets • 5 min read
Most of my @UMichLaw students wrote op-eds for their final assignments in Law in Rural America. The goal was to take scholarship from class, apply it to a current event, & explain to broad audience how expertise in rural law sheds new light on rural America & its challenges….1/
The assignment, much like the @IReadJotwell assignments, brought out some of my students’ best writing. Here’s just a GIF-filled sampling of the cool topics covered in the op-eds: 2/
Apr 22, 2020 • 11 tweets • 4 min read
Oh no! It’s our last and final week of Law in Rural America. This has been an amazing semester, with smart + caring students who remained curious and thoughtful even through crisis. I’m fortunate to have taught this bunch for my first class @UMichLaw! 1/
On the syllabus for today: “Rethinking the Place of Rural America” and we *were* going to read Eisenberg’s “Distributive Justice” article and selections from Robert Ellickson’s Order Without Law. If you’re following along with the class, these are still worth checking out. 2/
Apr 15, 2020 • 22 tweets • 9 min read
This week in Law in Rural America @UMichLaw, we’re reading about rural health issues (+ the opioid crisis). The state of rural healthcare is perhaps one of the most pressing issues during the current COVID-19 crisis, so buckle up, this is a long thread. 1/
We’re reading things like, (@nhuberfeld1) Nicole Huberfeld’s “Rural Health, Universality, and Legislative Targeting,’ which discusses the effects of ACA on rural communities. harvardlpr.com/wp-content/upl… 2/
Apr 8, 2020 • 14 tweets • 6 min read
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/
Today’s a heavy tweeting day for me, so get ready for tweets about @MichiganLawSFF (go bid on #49!), #LawInRuralAmerica (now!), and women on social media with @michlawwomen (at noon EST!). Up now: a thread on our rural law seminar @UMichLaw. 1/
We are very lucky in seminar this week to have the one and only @lisareneepruitt virtual visit our class. 🎉 We’ll be talking rural scholarship and practice for the first half of class. You can learn about Prof. Pruitt’s body of scholarship here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/Ab… 2/
Mar 18, 2020 • 18 tweets • 6 min read
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/
Mar 12, 2020 • 17 tweets • 6 min read
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/
Feb 26, 2020 • 12 tweets • 5 min read
It’s the week before spring …WINTER 🥶… break here at @UMichLaw and we’re thinking about rural labor and economies in our Law in Rural America Seminar. Here’s the deets if you’re reading along: 1/
First up is @katieporteroc’s (yes, Katie Porter might be repping the OC, but she knows the rural heartland) classic article, “Going Broke the Hard Way: The Economics of Rural Failure” papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf… 2/
Feb 19, 2020 • 9 tweets • 4 min read
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/
Feb 12, 2020 • 9 tweets • 4 min read
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/
Feb 11, 2020 • 10 tweets • 4 min read
I am so delighted w/ the work of my students that I just HAVE to share an assignment that I'm using this semester. It's bringing out the best writing and analysis from my students. Here's a short thread about how I'm assigning JOTWELL style reviews in seminar. (@IReadJotwell) 1/
Most weeks, I'm requiring students to write a more-or-less standard 3-5 page "reaction paper" responding to the assigned readings. But twice throughout this semester, students need to pick an assigned article they like & write their paper in the style of a JOTWELL review. 2/
Feb 5, 2020 • 11 tweets • 4 min read
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/
Jan 29, 2020 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
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/
Jan 22, 2020 • 8 tweets • 4 min read
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…
Mar 1, 2019 • 8 tweets • 5 min read
@kmtani Hi Karen! I am using DevonThink to take my notes (no separate app). You can mark up a PDF with an "annotate" option, but you can also create a new RTF file called an "annotation" which is what I do. All of the links are internal to DT. Let me see if I can explain via tweets....
@kmtani Here's an example--I've pulled up a PDF in DT in the first image. In the second image, I'm selecting Data--New from Template--Annotation. You could also use the Note template below it for more or less the same function, I think.
Feb 4, 2019 • 13 tweets • 7 min read
I thought I’d make one last workflow thread about where map-making fits in my dissertation writing. #acawri#phdchat#phdskills (
) 1/
Maps are the last part of my process because I can best decide which places need visually represented, and how, after the argument is laid out and clear in my head and on paper. 2/
Jan 28, 2019 • 9 tweets • 5 min read
Lately, I've assembled a couple threads on archive workflow and primary source management (
). Here’s another research and writing workflow thread, this time focused on writing. This one on writing, though, is short and sweet. #phdskills#phdchat#acawri 1/
In an earlier tweet, I noted that I print out all of my notes—primary and 2dary—to use while drafting my chapters. I find it easier to focus on the writing with just one screen up on my computer and my notes neatly organized on a book stand on the desk. 2/
Jan 14, 2019 • 14 tweets • 6 min read
Last week I put together a thread about archive workflow (
) and said I'd create a thread about using DEVONThink as a tool for source analysis and management. Here it is. #phdskills#phdchat 1/
My primary source analysis is all done w/ @devontech DEVONThink Pro. As I said in my last thread, I drag and drop the PDFs from the archive directly into a “dissertation” database in DEVONThink Office Pro + run OCR on them. (I have diff databases for diff research projects.) 2/
Jan 9, 2019 • 13 tweets • 4 min read
Inspired by folks at #phdskills, I've been thinking about my own research & writing flow as I finish the dissertation. I enjoy reading about others' workflow hacks & thought I’d share my own system +tools. I hope you'll add your own workflow experiences to the thread! #phdchat 1/
I’ll start in the archive for this thread. I use two apps, @TurboScanApp on my iPhone and @devontech (DEVONThink) on my mac to recreate the physical archive on digitally on my computer. 2/
