Professors Lin, Pruitt take part in Sustainability Conference at ASU

  • by Carla Meyer

On May 10, Professors Albert Lin and Lisa Pruitt gave talks at the fifth annual Sustainability Conference of American Legal Educators at Arizona State University’s Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law.

Lin’s talk was titled “Litigative Uncooperative Federalism.” Pruitt presented a paper titled “Sustaining Rural as a Sustainability Strategy" as part of the “Rural Resilience” panel.

Albert Lin is a professor at the UC Davis School of Law with special interests in environmental law, natural resources law, and evidence.

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.