Professor Pruitt Speaks on Gender Issues to Contra Costa Bar Association Women's Section

Professor Lisa R. Pruitt spoke on October 20 at the Contra Costa County Bar Association Women's Section annual scholarship dinner in a lecture entitled "Gender and the Legal Profession:  The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly."  Also present at the dinner was Marta Vanegas '11, a past recipient of the Women's Section scholarship, who was sworn in as vice president of the section.

Lisa R. Pruitt is a professor at 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.