Job Responsibilities

Lynette Martins joined DePaul Law in 2025 as a Jaharis Faculty Fellow.  Her scholarship explores the intersection of law, health policy and bioethics; health justice and equity; and global health security, and her recent and forthcoming scholarship appears in the Texas Environmental Law Journal, Hastings Center Report, Tulsa Law Review, Medical Law International and Pace Law Review. 

Professor Martins most recently taught Public Health Law and The Patient-Clinician Relationship (Bioethics) as an adjunct assistant professor at New York Medical College. She also is a Global Institute of Human Rights Scholar with the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School; currently serves as co-chair of the immigration and bioethics affinity group of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities; and is the project lead for an NIH-funded Parkinson’s Disease initiative in The Bahamas. Previously, she served as a senior research fellow at the Solomon Center for Health Law and Policy and an associate research scholar at Yale Law School, where she was a member of the clinical ethics committee at Yale New Haven Hospital. She also worked as a research assistant at Georgetown University’s O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law. 

Professor Martins holds an LLM, with distinction, from Georgetown University and a master of bioethics, magna cum laude, from the University of Pennsylvania, as well as a postgraduate diploma in population health evidence from the University of Manchester and a law degree from the University of Huddersfield, both in the UK. 

Ryan Knox is a health law and policy scholar who joined DePaul Law as a Jaharis Faculty Fellow in July 2024. His research focuses on issues of FDA regulation and access to medicines, including drug approval, competition and pricing. Prior to coming to DePaul, Ryan was a postdoctoral fellow at the Harvard-MIT Center for Regulatory Science and a research collaborator with the Program on Regulation, Therapeutics, And Law (PORTAL) at Harvard Medical School and Brigham & Women’s Hospital. His recent research has been published or is forthcoming in the UC Law Journal, Oklahoma Law Review, Journal of Law & the Biosciences, JAMA, JAMA Health Forum and Nature Biotechnology. Ryan earned his BS, magna cum laude, in Health Science from Boston University and his JD from New York University.

Professor Rutschman is a nationally and internationally recognized expert on vaccine law and policy, the regulation of emerging health technologies and access to medicines. Her book, Vaccines as Technology: Innovation, Barriers and the Public Health, was published in 2022 by Cambridge University Press.  

Professor Tschider is a renowned scholar whose work examines legal issues in artificial intelligence, international data protection, information privacy, cybersecurity law and healthcare medical device technology. She is the author of International Cybersecurity and Privacy Law in Practice (Wolters Kluwer 2023), and Cybersecurity Law: An Interdisciplinary Problem (West 2020, with Derek Bambauer, Gus Hurwitz and David Thaw). 

Professor Campbell is a medical ethicist, medical-legal scholar and certified health care compliance specialist. In her teaching and research, she views the health care system through an interdisciplinary lens, identifying problems that impact patient care and health outcomes, with a focus on how technological advances in medicine impact patient decision-making and the dying process. She also is passionate about correcting systemic errors that contribute to premature death. 

Professor Weinmeyer researches important questions of public health law, health policy and bioethics, and he applies mixed methods to empirical questions in health law. His PhD dissertation explores the public toilet crisis in the United States and provides an in-depth look at the legal and policy changes needed to improve public toilet availability and accessibility.