Pew's Stateline News Service Quotes Professor Pruitt on Rural Lawyer Shortage

Professor Lisa Pruitt spoke to writer Elaine S. Povich of the Pew Charitable Trusts’ Stateline news service for a Jan. 24 story on the rural lawyer shortage in the United States.

Pruitt was the lead author of the 2018 Harvard Law & Policy Review article “Legal Deserts: A Multi-State Perspective on Rural Access to Justice,” which helped kickstart a larger conversation on the topic.

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.