This conference offers reflections on my decades-long efforts to discover the legal relevance of rural areas and to use rural areas as a critical lens for law and jurisprudence. Since 2000, I have been working to unravel, document and theorize rural differences, revealing the increasingly urbannormative character of the law. I have tried to draw the attention of lawyers and judges to the different situation of the rural population, including the differences in the way the rural population is engaged and engaged through laws, legal acts and legal institutions. The study of rural differences has inevitably led to many discoveries and discussions about rural disadvantage: in education, health and social services, the criminal justice system and many other areas. During the same period, I tried to draw the attention of sociologists and rural geographers to the field of law and the power of law to shape life. Professor Lisa Pruitt started a blog called Legal Ruralism with students in her seminar on rural law and livelihoods. She and her students comment on a wide range of rural issues, including the difference rurality makes in different places where rural people and places encounter the law and legal institutions. Pruitt`s recent research examines how rural space affects the dimensions of gender, race, and ethnicity. Criminal Behavior as An Expression of Identity and a Form of Resistance: The Sociolegal Significance of the Hawaiian Cockfight, 104 Calif. L. Rev.
1159 (2016). Understanding Illegality: Tests and Trust in Sociolegal Fieldwork, 9 J. Organizational Ethnography 223 (2020). After Pruitt landed a job in 2004, she made the risky decision to establish a new jurisprudence sub-discipline, which explored the difference between urban and rural areas in terms of how people engage with law and state. (She believes it was risky because her tenure committee advised her not to do this work first.) Pruitt`s central premise was that law and jurisprudence had become metrocentric and that most lawyers and law professors, as well as many judges, knew little about rural people and places and how they differed from what had become the implicit urban norm. Since then, Pruitt has brought a rural perspective to countless legal issues, including access to abortion, drug addiction, termination of parental rights, domestic violence, access to justice, health and social services, and advocacy for the poor. Pruitt has also written extensively on Article 14 of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), Article 14 of which guarantees special rights to “rural women”. This lecture traces the emergence of what I call rural law and livelihoods, from my childhood in the Arkansas Ozarks, to my participation in the meeting of the International Association of Rural Sociology in Rio de Janeiro two decades ago, to the recent (very positive) emergence of a cadre of lawyers dealing with rural issues, and (mainly negative) attention, which is increasingly attracting the rural population to the national scene. Entre autres choses, je spécule sur l’avenir de cette communauté scientifique interdisciplinaire et sur ce que nous pouvons faire pour promouvoir cette entreprise encore jeune. Mitherausgeber, Yearbook of Commercial Arbitration, Volume XX (1995); Band XXI (1996) Legal Deserts: A Multi-State Perspective on Rural Access to Justice, 12 Harvard Law and Policy Review 15 (2018). (zusammen mit Danielle M. Conway, Hannah Haksgaard, Amanda Kool, Lauren Sudeall et Michele Statz).
Spatial Inequality as Constitutional Infirmity: Equal Protection, Child Poverty and Place, 71 Montana Law Review 1 (2010) (symposium sur le droit rural) Gender, Geography & Rural Justice, 23 Berkeley Journal of Gender, Law and Justice 338 (2008) Tester gab heute bekannt, dass er 3.950.000 US-Dollar aus dem Clean School Bus Program der Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) für Montana School Districts erhalten hat. Diese Finanzierung, die aus Testers parteiübergreifendem Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) stammt, wird für die Lieferung brandneuer emissionsfreier elektrischer Schulbusse für die Schulbezirke Bigfork, Clinton und Fairfield County verwendet. Don`t miss the whole column. The same issues are playing out in other states, including Missouri, where Jess Piper`s campaign for the Missouri legislature has repeatedly drawn attention to the danger facing rural schools in the state of Show-Me.