Academic blog cites access-to-justice article co-authored by Professor Pruitt

McGeorge School of Law Dean Michael Hunter Schwartz recently used his blog to highlight an article co-authored by UC Davis School of Law Professor Lisa Pruitt.

The article, “Legal Deserts: a Multi-State Perspective on Rural Access to Justice,” is forthcoming in the Harvard Law & Policy Review. It was written by Pruitt, Professor Amanda Kool of Harvard Law School; Professor Lauren Sudeall Lucas, who directs the Georgia State Access to Justice Center; Dean Danielle Conway of the University of Maine School of Law; Professor Hannah Haksgaard of the University of South Dakota School of Law; and medical-school Professor Michele Statz of the University of Minnesota-Duluth.

The article addresses what its authors call “an increasingly dire access-to-justice crisis, which serves to exacerbate the already disproportionate share of social problems afflicting rural areas.” It offers surveys of rural access to justice in California, Georgia, Maine, Minnesota, South Dakota and Wisconsin.

Lisa R. Pruitt, Martin Luther King, Jr. professor at UC Davis School of Law, is a scholar whose recent work explores the legal relevance of rural spatiality, including how it inflects dimensions of gender, race, and ethnicity.  Pruitt's work also considers rural-urban difference in transnational and international contexts.