Paul M. Pruitt

Paul Pruitt has worked for the Bounds Law Library, University of Alabama, since 1986. He has been Special Collections Librarian for almost that long. He is also co-editor and contributor to the Occasional Publications of the Bounds Law Library. In 2013 the Law School released the series' eighth volume, Traveling the Beaten Trail: Charles Tait's Charges to Federal Grand Juries, 1822-1825. Prior to coming to Tuscaloosa, Pruitt taught for Montgomery Academy and Auburn University at Montgomery. Since 2009 he has taught a summer school course in early English legal history, titled "From the Dark Ages to the Black Death." Beginning in Fall 2012 he has taught a seminar course titled "Alabama Legal History." He has also taught as an adjunct for the UA 's College of Arts and Science and for the Library School.