Professor Eisenberg joined the faculty at West Virginia University College of Law in 2023 as Professor of Law and Research Director for the Center for Energy and Sustainable Development. She teaches Property Law, Energy Law, and Climate Change Law at WVU. Her current activities with the Center include organizing a conference funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, which will bring together scholars and practitioners working with communities on energy transitions in 2024.

From 2016 to 2023, Professor Eisenberg was on the faculty of the University of South Carolina School of Law, where she created and ran the transactional Environmental Law Clinic for seven years, in addition to teaching Property, Law and the Urban/Rural Divide, and a skills course, Interviewing, Counseling, and Negotiation. During this time, Professor Eisenberg also completed a seven-month residency at the Kluge Center at the Library of Congress, in which she conducted original archival research on the Rural Electrification Act of 1936.

Since entering legal academia, Professor Eisenberg has focused her scholarly agenda on law in rural communities, law and political economy, legal geography, energy transitions, administrative law, and local government law. Her work has appeared in numerous law journals, including the Harvard Law and Policy Review, the Boston College Law Review, and elsewhere. She is regularly invited to comment on legal challenges in rural areas, as when she gave the keynote presentation at University of Richmond Law Review’s 2023 Symposium “Overlooked America: Addressing Legal Issues in Rural United States.”

Professor Eisenberg graduated from Cornell Law School in 2012, cum laude, after which she worked as a Staff Attorney for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit in St. Louis, MO. Prior to attending law school, Professor Eisenberg served in the U.S. Peace Corps in Morocco. Before joining the faculty in South Carolina, Professor Eisenberg completed a two-year fellowship at West Virginia University College of Law, through which she received a funded LL.M in Energy and Sustainable Development Law. She is a member of the bar of New York State.