Ann Eisenberg

Biography

Ann Eisenberg is a Professor of Law and Research Director of the Center for Energy and Sustainable Development at West Virginia University College of Law. Her research examines questions of law and sustainability, with particular emphases on rural development, property, energy law, and local government. Her scholarship has appeared in the Washington University Law Review, Boston College Law Review, Harvard Law and Policy Review, and elsewhere. Her book, Reviving Rural America: Toward Policies for Resilience, is forthcoming with Cambridge University Press in 2024.

Before joining WVU, Professor Eisenberg was on the faculty of the University of South Carolina School of Law from 2016 to 2023, where she created and ran the transactional Environmental Law Clinic. She also held a seven-month residency as a Fellow at the Kluge Center at the Library of Congress, conducting original archival research on the Rural Electrification Act of 1936. Eisenberg was selected to give a TEDx talk titled “Reviving Rural America.” She actively engages in interdisciplinary work and is part of two law and geography research teams funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation studying justice in energy transitions.

Eisenberg holds a J.D. from Cornell Law School, cum laude, an LL.M. in Energy and Sustainable Development from WVU Law, and a B.A. in Linguistics and French Cultural Studies from Cornell University. She is a member of the New York Bar. Her website is www.anneisenberg.com.

Her book is available for pre-order here.