Professor Pruitt to Speak on Rurality and Law at Australian Law Schools

Professor Lisa R. Pruitt will travel to Australia this month to deliver the keynote speech on "The Legal Relevance of Rurality" at the National Rural/Regional Law and Justice Conference held November 19-21 at Deakin University School of Law.  She will also speak on "Deconstructing CEDAW's Article 14: Naming and Explaining Rural Difference" at Griffith University on November 24.

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.