Lynette Martins

College of LawLawJaharis Faculty FellowFacultyFull Time
DegreesLaw Degree, University of Huddersfield, UK; LLM, with distinction, Georgetown University; Master of Bioethics, magna cum laude, University of Pennsylvania; Postgraduate Diploma, Population Health Evidence, University of Manchester
Contact
LMARTINS@depaul.edu(312) 362-8000
Office
743 Lewis

BIO

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.