Rural Legal Aid

Lisa Pruitt and Bradley Showman, Law Stretched Thin: Access to Justice in Rural America, 59 S.D. Law Rev. 466 (2014)

Hannah Haksgaard, Rural Practice as Public Interest Work, 71 Maine L. Rev. 210 (2019).

Lisa Pruitt, et. al., Legal Deserts: A Multi-State Perspective on Rural Access to Justice, 13 Harv. L. & Pol’y Rev. 15 (2018)

Hillary A. Wandler, Spreading Justice to Rural Montana: Rurality’s Impacts on Supply and Demand for Legal Services in Montana, 76 Montana L. Rev. 225 (2015)

Hillary A. Wandler, Spreading Justice to Rural Montana: Expanding Local Legal Services in Underserved Rural Communities, 77 Montana L. Rev. 235 (2016)

Thomas Sneed, The Academic Law Library’s Role in Cultivating the Rural Lawyer, 64 SD L. Rev. 213 (2019)

Pruitt, et. al., Justice in the Hinterlands: Arkansas as a Case Study of the Rural Lawyer Shortage and Evidence-Based Solutions to Alleviate It, 37 UALR L. Rev. 573-719.

Neil D. Hamilton, Emerging Issues of 21st Century Agricultural Law and Rural Practice, 12 Drake J. Ag. L. 79 (2007)

Hannah Haksgaard, Rural Incentive Programs for Legal and Medical Professionals: A Comparative Analysis, 59 SD L. Rev. 585 (2014)
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California Commission on Access to Justice, California’s Attorney Deserts: Access to Justice Implications of the Rural Lawyer Shortage, July 2019.


Relevant news and media:

• April Simpson, Wanted: Lawyers for Rural America, Daily Yonder, August 9, 2019. https://www.dailyyonder.com/wanted-lawyers-rural-america/2019/07/01
• Jessica Pishko, When the Legal System Leaves Rural Areas Behind, The Atlantic, July 18, 2019. https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2019/07/man-who-had-no-lawyer/593470/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share 

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