Professor Pruitt Speaks on Sexual Violence in War

Professor Lisa R. Pruitt spoke on "Empowering Women: Confronting Sexual Violence in War," on October 27 in San Francisco at an event sponsored by the Association of Marshall Scholars and the British Consul-General San Francisco. Pruitt talked about how two decades ago, as a Marshall Scholar, she worked on the first-ever prosecution of rape as a war crime in the trial of Jean Paul Akayesu.

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.