Professor Pruitt serves as capstone commentator for 'Rural Innovation' panel at SMU

Professor Lisa Pruitt served as capstone commentator for the panel “Rural Innovation, Implementation and Collaboration” on Oct. 17 at the Deason Center’s Rural Criminal Justice Summit at SMU Dedman School of Law.

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.