This article describes why and how the author started a medical-legal partnership at her small law school, the curricula associated with the medical-legal partnership, and the experience she and her students have had with the curricula to date. It also provides “lessons learned” which may be useful for individuals interested in expanding interdisciplinary and experiential opportunities at institutions that presently lack traditional sources of such opportunities.
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See generally C.Scott, “Transforming the Future of Public Health Law Education through a Faculty Fellowship Program,”Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics44, no. 1, Supp. (2016): 6–17.
For an overview medical-legal partnerships based in law schools and how they serve their communities, see J. R.Wettach, “The Law School Clinic as a Partner in a Medical-Legal Partnership,”Tennessee Law Review77 (2008): 305-313, at 306–07.
The syllabus for this course is available through the fellowship program’s teaching resources library on-line. See Network for Public Health Law, “Public Health Law Faculty Teaching Resources,”available at <https://www.networkforphl.org/faculty_teaching_resources/> (last visited January 13, 2016) (this site is password protected; faculty may request a password from the Network on the site) (see “Community Health and Vulnerable Populations” in the Syllabi section of this website).
R.Pettignano, L.Bliss, and S.Caley, “The Health Law Partnership: A Medical-Legal Partnership Strategically Designed to Provide a Coordinated Approach to Public Health Legal Services, Education, Advocacy, Evaluation, Research, and Scholarship,”Journal of Legal Medicine35, no. 1 (2014): 57-79, at 71–72.
