James Bhandary-Alexander is clinical lecturer in law, associate research scholar in law, and the legal director of the Medical Legal Partnership at the Solomon Center for Health Law and Policy at Yale Law School; and currently serves as chairperson of the Interdisciplinary Committee of the Clinical Section of the American Association of Law Schools. His scholarship on Medical-Legal Partnerships has been published in the Yale Law Journal, the Clinical Law Review, the Journal of Law, Medicine, & Ethics, the JAMA network, and elsewhere. Previously, he worked as an attorney at New Haven Legal Assistance, where he represented clients in labor and employment, housing, public benefits, police misconduct, and civil rights cases; and served as President of the New Haven Association of Legal Services Attorneys. Prior to that time, he was the Thomas Emerson Fellow at the law firm of David Rosen & Associates. Bhandary-Alexander has also served as co-chair of Connecticut’s Low-Wage Employer Advisory Board, the state’s Task Force on Domestic Workers, and currently serves on Connecticut’s Working Group on transportation network company and third-party delivery company drivers. He has long served as pro bono counsel to Connecticut Drivers United and the state's National Domestic Workers Alliance affiliates. In 2016, he received the Micah Award from the Naugatuck Valley Project and the Brazilian Worker Center; and in 2019, he received the Unsung Hero Award from the Morris and Irmgard Wessel Fund, and in 2026 was named a James W. Cooper Fellow by the Connecticut Bar Foundation.
Bhandary-Alexander was a public interest law scholar at the Northeastern University School of Law, where received his J.D., and graduated with degrees in History and Afro-American Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
