Legal Services Corporation Appoints Professor Pruitt to its Rural Justice Task Force

The Legal Services Corporation has selected Professor Lisa R. Pruitt to be part of its new Rural Justice Task Force. The LSC will introduce the task force during a virtual kickoff event on Dec. 15.

Established by Congress in 1974, the LSC is a publicly funded, independent 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation that promotes equal access to justice and provides grants for high-quality civil legal assistance to low-income Americans.   

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. She is the recipient of the law school’s 2020 Distinguished Teaching Award.