Professor Pruitt Presents at Law and Rurality Workshop at University of Iowa

Professor Lisa Pruitt presented a  work in progress, “How the Rural Lawyer Shortage and Spatial Inequality are Undermining the Criminal Legal System in Washington State,” on Nov. 15 at the Law &  Rurality Workshop at the University of Iowa College of Law.

Iowa College of Law Clinical Professor and Criminal Defense Clinic Director Alison Guernsey was the discussant.

Iowa Law served as local host for the workshop, a joint project facilitated by the Rural Reconciliation Project at the University of Nebraska College of Law and the University of South Dakota Knudson School of Law.

Distinguished Professor of Law Lisa R. Pruitt 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.