Professor Pruitt Interviewed by The Practice Magazine About Legal Deserts

Professor Lisa R. Pruitt spoke to The Practice, a magazine published by Harvard Law School's Center on the Legal Profession, for its August issue about legal deserts, or rural areas with too few lawyers and judges to meet demand.

Pruitt, president of the Rural Sociological Society, talked about the connection between rural lawyers and rural communities, and what law schools can do to support students in these rural areas.

“The more that rural America as a whole struggles, the greater the challenge will be to get lawyers into rural communities," she said.

Distinguished Professor of Law Lisa R. Pruitt is a Brigitte Bodenheimer Research 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.