Professor Pruitt speaks on ABA panel, is quoted in Daily Journal, Law360 on 'legal deserts'

Professor Lisa Pruitt served as a panelist for the July 28 American Bar Association virtual program “Legal Deserts in America: A Threat to Justice for All.” The panelists addressed the large swaths of rural America that lack access to attorneys.

ABA president Judy Perry Martinez served as moderator.

Pruitt also was quoted in Law360 and Daily Journal as part of media coverage of the program, and co-wrote a Journal piece with Kelly Beskin '21 about the rural lawyer shortage in California. 

Read the Law360 story. Read the Daily Journal story. Read the Journal op-ed

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. She is the recipient of the law school’s 2020 Distinguished Teaching Award.