Rate My Professor Ann Eisenberg

Eisenberg received her J.D. cum laude from Cornell Law School in 2012, LL.M. in Energy and Sustainable Development Law from West Virginia University College of Law in 2016, and B.A. in Linguistics and French Cultural Studies from Cornell University in 2006. She is a member of the New York Bar. Key publications include Reviving Rural America: Toward Policies for Resilience (Cambridge University Press, 2024), which received the WVU College of Law's 2025 Faculty Significant Scholarship Award; "Distributive Justice and Rural America," 61 B.C. L. Rev. 189 (2020); "Just Transitions," 92 S. Cal. L. Rev. 2 (2019); "Rural Blight," 13 Harv. L. & Pol’y Rev. 187 (2018); "Economic Regulation and Rural America," 98 Wash. U. L. Rev. 737 (2021); and forthcoming works such as "Extracting Clean Energy" in the UC Davis Law Review (2026) and "Clean Energy as Enclosure" in the University of Colorado Law Review (2026). Eisenberg has secured funding as principal investigator for an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation grant on just energy transitions (2023-2024) and co-principal investigator for another (2021-2023). She was selected to present a TEDx talk, “Reviving Rural America.”