New faculty bring expertise in IP law, health law and dispute resolution/mediation

Brandeis School of Law has added three new accomplished faculty members this fall with expertise in intellectual property law, health law and dispute resolution/mediation.

Lorelei Ritchie has been named the Charles A. Grosscurth Chair in Intellectual Property Law, bringing almost 30 years of experience in teaching, scholarship and practice to the role. She teaches First-Year Contracts and upper-level Intellectual Property courses.

Professor Ritchie has taught at law schools around the country, including the University of Florida, Southern Illinois University, Florida State University and UCLA. She also previously served as a judge with the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and previously practiced law in California and New York. Her research focuses on the social utility of intellectual property ownership and enforcement with an emphasis on public entities in the marketplace and on the creation and enforcement of intellectual property rights. Her scholarly articles have appeared in the American University Law Review, Federal Circuit Bar Journal, Indiana Law Journal, Oregon Law Review, Trademark Reporter, among others.

Professor Ritchie is a past recipient of the Los Angeles Intellectual Property Law Association’s Distinguished Public Service Award; a U.S. Department of Commerce Special Act Award; and the Bayh-Dole Fellowship in Public Policy from AUTM, an organization focused on technology transfer. She has chaired or co-chaired committees for the American Bar Association, the American Intellectual Property Law Association and the State Bar of California.

She earned her J.D. at Columbia School of Law where she was a journal editor. She earned her bachelor’s degree at Stanford University where she received a Certificate of Recognition of Achievement in International Studies at and earned honors for her senior thesis. Fluent in Spanish, she undertook a year’s study at the Universidad de Salamanca in Spain.

Julie Campbell is an assistant professor of law who is an accomplished academic, medical ethicist and certified health care compliance specialist. Her area of expertise is health law and she teaches Introduction to Health Law; Law, Ethics and the Practice of Medicine and Contracts.

Professor Campbell has taught at DePaul University College of Law, Loyola University Chicago School of Law and Robert Morris University. While at DePaul, she was a faculty fellow with the Mary and Michael Jaharis Health Law Institute and co-executive director for the institute during her final year. Professor Campbell is one of the select few attorneys to complete a fellowship in clinical medical ethics with the MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics at University of Chicago School of Medicine. She was also the 2019-2020 health law fellow for the American Medical Association. Prior to transitioning to academia, Professor Campbell practiced general litigation with Poulos Black, P.C., of Evanston, Illinois, and complex commercial litigation at Kane, Laduzinsky & Mendoza, Ltd., of Chicago.

Professor Campbell has published scholarly articles in the Georgia Law Review, the University of Houston Journal of Health Law and Policy, and Health Matrix: The Journal of Law-Medicine. Professor Campbell is a past recipient of the Imperato Award for Scholarship at DePaul University College of Law and the Delta Alpha Pi Honor Society Gratias Award for service to students with disabilities at Loyola University Chicago.

Professor Campbell earned her J.D. from Chicago-Kent College of Law and LL.M. from Loyola University Chicago School of Law. She earned bachelor of arts and bachelor of science degrees from Miami University.

Mnotho Ngcobo is an assistant professor of law with expertise in dispute resolution, mediation and health law. He has past experience in teaching and practice, including serving as the founder/director of his own firm. He teaches Alternative Dispute Resolution and Comparative International Law.

He has taught property law, torts, bioethics and public health law and international law at law schools in Africa and Asia, including North-West University in South Africa and O.P. Jindal Global University in India. His practice experience has been with his firm, M.T. Ngcobo Attorneys, and Abdool Gaffoor Parasram, both of South Africa. Additionally, he held a fellowship with the American Bar Association Section on Dispute Resolution and the Ivan Rugema Fellowship at the University of Missouri-Columbia.

During his ABA fellowship, Professor Ngcobo conducted research, data collection and analysis of the impact of technology in dispute resolution. At the University of Missouri, his work focused on arbitration and mediation. His past and upcoming publications look at alternatives to the high cost of litigation in dispute resolution, the role of judges as mediators, effective management of emotions in conflict resolution and artificial intelligence and blockchain technology in online dispute resolution.

Professor Ngcobo is currently at work on his thesis, “Legal and Ethical Implications of Artificial Intelligence in Clinical Decision-Making,” for his Ph.D. from the University of South Africa in 2025. He earned master of laws degrees at the University of Missouri-Columbia and the University of the Western Cape, South Africa, and his bachelor of laws degree at the University of South Africa.