James Teufel, MPH, PhD, is an Evaluation and Regulatory Reform Consultant of IAALS. Dr. Teufel was the founding Director of Data of the Utah Supreme Court’s Office of Legal Services Innovation (OLSI) and the founding Data Analyst of Law Society of Ontario’s (LSO) Access to Innovation (A2I). He currently advises the Delaware Community Legal Aid Society, Inc. (CLASI) on right to representation and nonlawyer representation (i.e., Qualified Tenant Advocates as permitted by Delaware Supreme Court Rule 57.1) in landlord-tenant cases. Dr. Teufel is currently a Visiting Scholar of Arizona State University’s Justice Futures Initiative and an evaluator for Georgetown University’s Institute for Technology Law & Policy. He is a recognized scholar focused on the intersection of civil justice and health.
Dr. Teufel contributed to the business case for medical-legal partnerships and the social return on investment of legal services. Dr. Teufel received the 2015 National Medical-Legal Partnership Advocate of the Year Award in recognition for innovating the financial and social return on investment model for medical-legal partnerships and currently consults for the National Center for Medical-Legal Partnerships. He was a former Associate Professor of Public Health who established two undergraduate programs. Until July 2021, he was the President of the Board of the Neighborhood Health Centers of the Lehigh Valley, a federally-qualified health center.
Dr. Teufel is particularly interested in scaling and sustaining innovative solutions to social problems and in developing just solutions that empower people to prevent and intervene in justiciable events.