Professor Pruitt speaks as part of webinar focused on 'greening' legal deserts

On Sept. 16, Professor Lisa Pruitt participated in the webinar “Greening the Desert: Strategies to Recruit, Train, and Retain Criminal Law Practitioners for STAR Communities.” Presented by SMU Dedman School of Law’s Deason Criminal Justice Reform Center, the seminar explored creative initiatives that some STAR (small, tribal, and rural) communities are using to address their legal deserts.

The webinar was held in conjunction with a new Deason center report that cites Pruitt extensively.

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.