Global Reflections on Positionality in Rural Access to Justice Research

Michele Statz is Associate Professor at the University of Minnesota Medical School and Affiliated Faculty with theUniversity of Minnesota Law School, USA.Daniel Newman is Professor at the School of Law and Politics at Cardiff University, UK.

• 1. Introduction, Rebecca Sandefur (Arizona State University, American Bar Foundation , USA)2. Claiming the South, Elizabeth Chambliss (University of South Carolina, USA)3. From the Valleys to the Academy, Daniel Newman (Cardiff University UK)4. Improving Access...Delivering Justice? Insights from Empirical Legal Research on (Rural) Access to Justice, Leslie S Ferraz (United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime)5. Indigenous Communities and Reparative Reflexivity in Socio-legal Studies, Brieanna Watters (University of Minnesota, USA)6. Considerations of Access to Justice in the Context of Disaster, Kyle Mulrooney (University of New England, Australia), Marg Camilleri (Federation University Australia), Joseph F Donnermeyer (Ohio State University, USA) and Alistair Harkness (University of New England, Australia)7. An Escape to Rurality, Maybell Romero (Tulane University, USA)8. The Language of a Place, Michele Statz (University of Minnesota, USA)9. The Slain South African Police Officer’s Legacy Lives on: A Rural Criminologist’s History, Witness Maluleke (University of Limpopo, South Africa)10. Race, Rurality, and Marginalisation in the American South, Lauren Sudeall (Vanderbilt University, USA)11. ‘Do What Has to Be Done’: How the Codes We Live By Shape Rural Access to Justice, Hillary Wandler (University of Montana, USA)12. My Past is My Present: Teaching in and Writing about a Home Community, Hannah Haksgaard (University of South Dakota, USA)13. Legal Pluralism and Human Rights Concerns, Wilfredo Ardito (Pontifical Catholic Universityof Peru)14. The Importance of Place in Law and Society, Mark Fathi Massoud (University of California, USA)