Professor Pruitt Appointed to Second Term on California Commission on Access to Justice

Professor Lisa R. Pruitt has been appointed to a second three-year term on the California Commission on Access to Justice. Pruitt will serve through 2021.

The California Commission on Access to Justice brings together 26 lawyers, judges and academic, business, labor and community leaders to improve access to civil justice for low and moderate income Californians. Professor Pruitt is one of ten State Bar appointees.

Professor 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.