A JAMA Health Forum essay co-authored by Professor Michelle Mello discusses the need for 44 state Medicaid programs to redetermine the eligibility of millions of beneficiaries and how the strategic deployment of AI can help states tackle this project.
In a new Los Angeles Times essay, Professors Nora Freeman Engstrom and David Freeman Engstrom explain why decades of research supports reform to address imbalances in California's civil justice system that results in the majority going to court without legal representation.
Law and medicine face many of the same challenges. How will AI reshape expert work, and how should institutions adapt? How can the professions make essential services more accessible and affordable? And how can law and medicine maintain public trust in an era of rapid change?
On October 26, Stanford Law School and Stanford School of Medicine are bringing together leaders and thinkers from both fields for a full-day symposium that explores these questions and what the sister professions can learn from one another.
October 26, 2026
8:15 am - 4:00 pm | Reception to follow
Paul Brest Hall, Stanford University
Technological change affects the Constitution not only by creating new problems of constitutional interpretation, but also by changing the distribution of economic and political power. New technologies alter what governments and private actors can know, control, predict, and accomplish. When constitutional institutions fail to adapt, large shifts in power and control can lead to constitutional rot: the process by which a democratic republic becomes less democratic and less republican over time. The United States has suffered from increasing constitutional rot over the past four decades; rapid technological change has made the rot worse.
Law and medicine face many of the same challenges. How will AI reshape expert work, and how should institutions adapt? How can the professions make essential services more accessible and affordable? And how can law and medicine maintain public trust in an era of rapid change? 
