LAW 919TUT - Health Justice Clinic

HJC student-attorneys staff LegalCare at Roswell, a medical-legal partnership serving patients of Roswell Park Cancer Institute who otherwise would not have access to a lawyer. Medical-legal partnerships bring lawyers and front-line health care providers together to address legal barriers to patient health in the medical setting. Working closely with Roswell Park social workers and health care providers, HJC student-attorneys interview, counsel, draft legal documents, and advocate for patients in legal matters commonly experienced by people with cancer. The HJC also seeks to work collaboratively with local health and advocacy partners to support good health at the population level through changes to statutes, regulations, and policies. In addition to working at LegalCare at Roswell, 2016-17 HJC student-attorneys will help develop an innovative interdisciplinary effort to apply the medical-legal partnership model in the addiction treatment setting. Student-attorneys will consider the broad range of laws and policies that bear on substance abuse and addiction treatment and will design an integrated program of direct legal services and systems change projects to improve health outcomes at the individual and population levels.

Credits: 1-6