Transgender adolescents and legal reform: How improved access to healthcare was achieved through medical, legal and community collaboration

Transgender health at the crossroads: legal norms, insurance markets, and the threat of healthcare reform.

How improved access to healthcare was successfully spread across Sweden.

BACKGROUND Swedish healthcare has an internationally high standard, but is often criticized from a patient perspective owing to access problems to primary and specialist care. The waiting time to get in touch or get an appointment with a doctor, nurse, or physiotherapist is often too long. Access problems also create stress for employees when there are too few appointments to offer. In addition...

Tort Reform and Access to Justice: How Legal Environments Shape Lawyers’ Case Selection

How do lawyers decide which cases to accept? Previous studies suggest that they use a simple risk/return formula to make such decisions. I argue, however, that legal environments also shape lawyers’ decisions. Analyses of in-depth interviews with lawyers across four states demonstrate that lawyers make different decisions about cases in different legal environments. Lawyers in states without to...

Editor's Introduction to "Legal Worlds and Legal Encounters" -- OPEN ACCESS

This introduction presents and draws together the articles and themesfeatured in this special issue of The Medieval Globe, “Legal Worlds and LegalEncounters.”

Medical Travel: The Ethical and Legal Challenges

Medical tourism is a term referring to the people traveling to other countries to obtain medical care. Like any other rapid growing indus­try, medical tourism has prompted ethical and legal issues. These issues are mainly pertained to malpractice and consumer protection. Beside these, risk management, foreign hospital liabilities, international ad­vocacy, facility ownership, intellectual proper...