Professor Pruitt Speaks at UC Davis Health System Symposium

Professor Lisa R. Pruitt spoke at the UC Davis Health System 2016 Advancing Pain Relief Symposium on November 30, delivering a talk on “Prescription Drug Overdoses and Rising Mortality Rates: A Reflection of Despair.”

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.

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