Medical-Legal Partnership as a Model for Access to Justice


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Symposium – 2023 – Access to Justice

Medical-Legal Partnership as a Model for Access to Justice

by  Yael Zakai Cannon  

As part of Stanford Law Review's 2023 Symposium on Access to Justice, this Essay explains how medical-legal partnerships--community-based programs that embed lawyers within healthcare teams--offer a promising model to address our country's justice gap. By using trusted institutions to connect people to the resources they need and embracing a bottom-up "patients-to-policy" approach, medical legal partnerships demonstrate how interdisciplinary collaborations can effect transformative change and advance substantive justice.

Volume 75 (2022-2023)