Lynette Martins
lynettemartins.bsky.social
Lynette Martins
@lynettemartins.bsky.social
Jaharis Faculty Fellow, DePaul University College of Law. Georgetown Law ; Penn Bioethics; Univ of Man. Pop Health Evidence; Univ of Huddersfield 🇧🇸🇵🇹🇮🇪 Law & Bioethics
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Excited to announce my new role as the Jaharis Faculty Fellow in Health Law and Intellectual Property at DePaul University College of Law this Fall. Thrilled to be teaching the Law and Ethics of A.I. in Healthcare!
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Additionally, OpenAI argues its not liable because Raine, by using ChatGPT for self-harm, broke its terms of service
November 25, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Wrapped up my first semester as a Jaharis Fellow teaching the #Law and #Ethics of #AI in #Healthcare at @depaullaw.bsky.social 🎉What a joy and privilege this class was to teach! Looking forward to teaching Health Equity and the Law in the spring.
November 25, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Nice explanation here on medmal and AI from @davidasimon.bsky.social
health.usnews.com/health-care/...
health.usnews.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Exam hypos writing themselves these days.

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November 25, 2025 at 3:42 PM
“Other people might feel differently, especially if you’re super busy and just trying to squeeze a workout in. But there’s still value in getting real-time feedback from real people. Unlike a large language model, a friend can tell when you’re sick, or if you’re…

www.wired.com/story/google...
Instead of an AI Health Coach, You Could Just Have Friends
I used the public preview of Fitbit’s new AI Health Coach and became both faster and noticeably weirder.
www.wired.com
November 22, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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CALL FOR PAPERS! The University of Louisville Law Review is hosting a symposium on Defense of Democratic Institutions and is seeking contributing scholars. Paper deadline is December 15. uofllawreview.org/symposium-1
University of Louisville Law Review
The University of Louisville Law Review holds an annual symposium that features the works of authors in a specific area of the law.
uofllawreview.org
November 21, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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The Legitimation of Shareholder Primacy is now published in the Journal of Corporation Law!

Unlike the draft version that's been online for a while, this final version includes a discussion of SB 21 and other recent developments.

Read it again, for the first time:
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
November 21, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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New Mexico just became the first U.S. state to offer free universal child care

New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham told CBS News it would save families an average of $12,000 a year.

"In 41 states in America, your child care payment is more than your mortgage payment," she said.

#PublicHealth
New Mexico will become the first state to offer free universal child care next week
New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham, who championed the new initiative, told CBS News it would save families an average of $12,000 a year.
www.cbsnews.com
November 21, 2025 at 2:44 AM
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The Supreme Court of New Jersey found that "Shaken Baby Syndrome" "has not been generally accepted in the biomechanical community, making expert testimony about it unreliable and inadmissible in court.": newjerseymonitor.com/2025/11/20/n...
NJ high court bars shaken baby syndrome as 'unreliable' in child abuse cases • New Jersey Monitor
The N.J. Supreme Court declared shaken baby syndrome unreliable, affirming lower court rulings in two fathers' child abuse cases.
newjerseymonitor.com
November 20, 2025 at 10:04 PM
“These days, students can use AI to replace the previously irreplaceable: studying with friends, learning from professors, and putting their thoughts into writing. In doing so, they encounter the gray area of cheating not the system but themselves.”
November 17, 2025 at 4:30 AM
www.newsweek.com/video-app-de...
What societal benefit does this serve? What if the deceased relative says something awful and traumatic? Added this to class discussion for next week.
Video app that allows dead to live on compared to dystopian show
Calum Worthy's app 2wai lets users talk to digital versions of the dead—critics call it eerie and “Black Mirror”-like.
www.newsweek.com
November 15, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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Today was publication day for my new article!

"How Workplace Equity Laws Perpetuate Inequity": arguing that when work laws benefit some people but not others, the burden to prove membership in a group perpetuates the inequities that the law wanted to solve.

open.mitchellhamline.edu/cgi/viewcont...
November 14, 2025 at 2:16 AM
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Today, Elle Rothermich explains how hospice care, once rooted in service and compassion, became fertile ground for private equity—and why antitrust scrutiny alone can’t restore what was lost when care became subject to market logic.
Hospice Commodification and the Limits of Antitrust
As hospice care is increasingly dominated by private equity firms, an antitrust response, while necessary, has the potential to normalize the language of the market as the default mode for discussing…
lpeproject.org
November 12, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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This may be a long shot but: Is anyone on here an expert the laws relating to Illinois non-profit corporations? I'm particularly interested in what information on such groups the public is entitled to.

I searched here and the results are pretty threadbare (no officers list, no documents, etc.):
apps.ilsos.gov
November 9, 2025 at 2:50 PM
gizmodo.com/ai-capabilit...
Not the point but gotta love that pics associated with AI are always robots
AI Capabilities May Be Overhyped on Bogus Benchmarks, Study Finds
They're dumber than you think and they might be cheating.
gizmodo.com
November 9, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Always read Ben’s work. Was waiting for someone to publish a piece like this. Congratulations @benjaminabarsky.bsky.social !

www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
Religious Liberty as a Shield for Public Health — The Case of Overdose-Prevention Centers | NEJM
A federal appeals court ruling in United States v. Safehouse may open the door to a new legal defense for harm-reduction interventions in a hostile political climate.
www.nejm.org
November 8, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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As a verrryyyyy late update to the August submission cycle, "Out-of-State Executives" is now forthcoming in the Wayne Law Review!
perhaps, maybe, possibly coming to a law review near you. we'll see when I submit it! or perhaps we'll circle back in February.
November 4, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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We should do everything we can to ensure language is not a barrier to health outcomes. #healthequity

An Emerging Threat To Health Equity: Diminished Patient Access To Language Services | Health Affairs www.healthaffairs.org/content/fore... by @lynettemartins.bsky.social @fabioethics.bsky.social
An Emerging Threat To Health Equity: Diminished Patient Access To Language Services | Health Affairs Forefront
Language services are essential for health equity and good patient health outcomes, but recent executive actions threaten to undermine this vital resource.
www.healthaffairs.org
November 4, 2025 at 12:31 AM