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Hannah Haksgaard is a Professor at the University of South Dakota's Knudson School of Law, with affiliated faculty status in the Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies Department. She teaches courses in Property, Family Law, Modern Real Estate Transactions, and Reproduction & the Law, previously teaching Employment Discrimination. Her academic journey includes a JD from UC Berkeley School of Law (2012) and a BA in Political Science and Gender & Women's Studies from University of Kentucky (2009).
Her research focuses on rural access to justice and family law, particularly examining how family status impacts property ownership and rurality affects reproductive healthcare access. She has pioneered analysis of the rural lawyer shortage, drawing parallels with rural medical workforce strategies and exploring solutions like incentive programs.
Among her recent publications, she investigates rural legal infrastructure and historical property law through articles such as The Rural Lawyer: How To Incentivize Rural Law Practice (2025) and Including Unmarried Women in the Homestead Act of 1862 (2022). Her work has been recognized with the Belbas-Larson Award for Excellence in Teaching (2023) and the John Wesley Jackson Memorial Award (2022) from the University of South Dakota.
In addition to her academic roles, she serves on editorial boards for Family Law and Children's Advocacy and American Constitution Society, and has presented extensively on topics ranging from rural legal deserts to reproductive rights post-Dobbs. Her interdisciplinary approach bridges law with gender studies and rural sociology.
