Professor Pruitt, Marta Vanegas '11 Present Paper at Baltimore Law School

Professor Lisa Pruitt and Marta Vanegas '11 presented a paper entitled "CEDAW and Rural Women:  Law from the Top Down, Activism from the Bottom Up" on March 31, 2011 at the University of Baltimore School of Law.  The presentation was given as part of the Fourth Annual Feminist Legal Theory Conference hosted by the University of Baltimore Law School's Center for Applied Feminism.  This year's theme was "Applying Feminism Globally" and the keynote speaker was author and Nobel Prize Laureate Toni Morrison. 

Lisa R. Pruitt is a professor at the UC Davis School of Law whose recent scholarship 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.

University of Baltimore School of Law "Applying Feminism Globally" conference