Professor Pruitt Appears on 'Insight' to Discuss Oroville City Council Declaration

Professor Lisa R. Pruitt appeared on the Nov. 17 episode of Capital Public Radio’s “Insight” news program. Host Vicki Gonzalez interviewed Pruitt and McGeorge School of Law Professor Leslie Jacobs about the Oroville City Council’s Nov. 2 declaration that the city is now a “constitutional republic.” Listen to the episode.

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.

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