TORTS: CASES AND MATERIALS (West Academic 4th ed. 2024) (with John L. Diamond).
VACCINE LAW AND POLICY (Springer 2023) (with Y. Tony Yang).
VACCINE, VACCINATION, AND IMMUNIZATION LAW (American Health Lawyers Ass’n, 2nd ed. 2022) (with Brian Dean Abramson & Peter O. Safir).
Journal Articles
Vaccines In The Courts: A COVID-19-Induced Litigation Influx, Health Aff. Forefront (2023) (with Richard Hughes IV).
Misinformation and COVID-19, 63 Santa Clara L. Rev. 147 (2023) .
Vaccination Mandates: An Old Public Health Tool Faces New Challenges, JAMA (2023) (with Lawrence O. Gostin & Michelle M. Mello).
Laws Prohibiting Vaccine Mandates: An Overview, 23 N.C. J.L. & Tech. 788 (2022).
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Commentary: No Right Answer: Officials Need Discretion on Whether to Allow Natural Immunity Exemptions, 48 J. Med. Ethics (2022) .
Law in the Service of Misinformation: How Anti-Vaccine Groups Use the Law to Help Spin a False Narrative, 18 NW J. L. & Pub. Pol’y 51 (2022) (with Viridiana Ordonez).
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Employer-Mandated Vaccination for COVID-19, 111 Am. J. Public Health 1061 (2021) (with Mark A. Rothstein & Wendy E. Parmet).
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COVID-19 and Regulating Vaccines, 85 Soc. Educ. 129 (2021) .
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Vaccines Mandates and Religion: Where are We Headed with the Current Supreme Court?, 49 J.L. Med. & Ethics 552 (2021) .
US State-Level Legal Interventions Related to COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates, 327 JAMA 178 (2021) (with Breanna Fernandes; Mark Christopher Navin; Saad B. Omer & Katie Attwell).
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Employer-Mandated Vaccination for COVID-19, 111 Am. J. Public Health 1061 (2021) (with Mark A. Rothstein & Wendy E. Parmet).
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COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates for University Students, ___ N.Y.U. J. Legis. & Pub. Pol’y ___ (2021) (with John DiPaolo).
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Experimental? It Doesn’t Mean What You Think it Means, Denver L. Rev. Forum (2021) (with Arthur Caplan).
How Congress Can Help Raise Vaccine Rates, 96 Notre Dame L. Rev. Online 42 (2021) (with Y. Tony Yang).
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COVID-19 Antibody Testing as a Precondition for Employment: Ethical and Legal Considerations, 49 J.L. Med. & Ethics 293 (2021) (with Sara Gerke; Gali Katznelson & Carmel Shachar).
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Promoting COVID-19 Vaccine Acceptance: Recommendations from the Lancet Commission on Vaccine Refusal, Acceptance, and Demand in the USA, The Lancet (2021) (with Saad B. Omer et al.).
COVID-19 Vaccine Uptake Through the Lived Experiences of Health Care Personnel: Policy and Legal Considerations, 5.1 Health Equity (2021) (with Rachel Gur-Arie & Zackary Berger).
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When Are Vaccine Mandates Appropriate?, 22 AMA J. Ethics E36 (2020) (with Carmel Shachar).
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Institutionalizing the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Independence, 12 ConLawNOW 107 (2020) .
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The COVID-19 Vaccine Dilemma, 6 Admin. L. Rev. Accord 49 (2020) .
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More Than a Mask: Stay-At-Home Orders and Religious Freedom, 57 San Diego L. Rev. 947 (2020) (with Madeline Thomas).
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Digging the Rabbit Hole, COVID-19 Edition: Anti-Vaccine Themes and the Discourse Around COVID-19, 22 Microbes & Infection 608 (2020) (with Tara C. Smith).
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When Public Participation is Public Theatre: Misuse of Public Comment Opportunities by Anti-Vaccine Activists, 73 Stan. L. Rev. Online (2020) (with Barbara S. Romzek).
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Considerations in Mandating a New Covid-19 Vaccine in the USA for Children and Adults, 7 J. L. & Biosci. 1 (2020) (with Arthur J. Caplan).
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Legal and Policy Responses to Vaccine-Preventable Disease Outbreaks, 47 J.L. Med. & Ethics 11 (2019) (with Leila Barraza & Patricia Freeman).
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Decoupling Vaccine Laws, 58 B.C. L. Rev. E. Supp. 9 (2017) .
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First Do No Harm: Protecting Patients Through Immunizing Health Care Workers, 26 Health Matrix 363 (2016) (with Rene F. Najera).
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Vaccines, Measles and Rights, 2 Wake Forest L. Rev. Common Law 138 (2015) .
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Vaccines, School Mandates, and California’s Right to Education, 63 UCLA L. Rev. Disc. 98 (2015) .
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Funding the Costs of Disease Outbreaks Caused by Non Vaccination, 43 J.L. Med. & Ethics 633 (2015) (with Charlotte A Moser & Robert Schwartz).
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Herd Immunity and Immunization Policy: The Importance of Accuracy, 94 Or. L. Rev. 1 (2015) .
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Responding to the Childhood Vaccination Crisis: Legal Frameworks and Tools in the Context of Parental Vaccine Refusal, 63 Buff. L. Rev. 881 (2015) (with Lois Weithorn).
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Compensating the Victims of Failure to Vaccinate: What are the Options?, 23 Cornell J.L. & Pub. Pol’y 595 (2014) .
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Thou Shalt Not Take the Name of the Lord Thy God in Vain: Use and Abuse of Religious Exemptions from School Immunization Requirements, 65 Hastings L.J. 1551 (2014) .
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The Benefits of Capture, 47 Wake Forest L. Rev. 569 (2012) .
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No Innocents Here: Using Litigation to Fight Against the Costs of Universal Service in France, 1 Creighton Int’l & Comp. L.J. 5 (2011).
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Account Me In: Agencies in Quest of Accountability, 19 J.L. & Pol’y 611 (2011).
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Agency Accountability Strategies After Liberalization: Universal Service in the United Kingdom, France, and Sweden, 31 Law & Pol’y 111 (2009).
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Participation in Governance from a Comparative Perspective: Citizen Involvement in Telecommunications and Electricity in the United Kingdom, France and Sweden, 2009 J. Disp. Resol. 381 (2009) .
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Tailored Participation: Modernizing the APA Rulemaking Procedures, 12 N.Y.U. J. Legis. & Pub. Pol’y 321 (2009) .
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Dorit Reiss & Richard Hughes III, The Ninth Circuit’s Nod to Anti-Vaccine Advocates, __ Ohio St. L.J. __ (forthcoming ___).
Chapters in Books
Vaccine Law: COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates for University Students Vaccine Law: COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates for University Students, in The Judges’ Book vol 7 (UC Law 2023).
The Anti-Vaccine Movement: A Litany of Fallacy and Errors, in Pseudoscience: The Conspiracy Against Science 195 (Allison B. Kaufman and James C. Kaufman eds., MIT Press 2018) (with Jonathan Howard).
When Children Pay the Price of Freedom of Religion, in Religious Freedom in America: A Reference Book 125 (Michael C. LeMay ed., ABC-CLIO 2018).
The Role of Trust in the Regulation of Complex and High-Risk Industries: The Case of the US Federal Aviation Administration’s Voluntary Disclosure Programs; in Trust in Regulatory Regimes 37 (Frédérique Six & Koen Verhoest eds., Edward Elgar 2017) (with Russell W. Mills).
Administrative Agencies as Creators of Administrative Law Norms: Evidence from the UK, France and Sweden, in Comparative Administrative Law 373 (Susan Rose-Ackerman & Peter L.Lindseth eds., Edward Elgar 2010).
Newspaper & Magazine Articles
Facebook and Google are Prolonging the Pandemic, S.F. Chron., Mar. 1 2021.
One More Argument Against Vaccine Mandates Crumbles, Barron’s, 11-May 2021 (with Arthur Caplan).
Op-Ed: OSHA suspended its vaccine rule after judges got it wrong, L.A. Times, Nov. 18 2021.
Opinion: Yes; Biden Has the Power to Require Vaccines or Testing in Private Businesses, Wash. Post, Nov. 9 2021 (with Lawrence O. Gostin).
Let Minors Choose Themselves to Vaccinate Against Measles, Seattle Times, Feb. 18 2019 (with David I. Levine).
Parents Have No Right to Expose Other Kids, S.F. Daily Journal, Mar. 30 2015.
Dismantling the NVICP Is Bad for All of Us, Law.Com and The Recorder, Nov. 22 2013.
Dissertation
Regulatory Accountability: Telecommunications and Electricity Agencies in the United Kingdom, France and Sweden (Feb. 2008) (unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, University of California, Berkeley) (on file with author).
Miscellaneous
Jury Rejects Malpractice Claim That a Vaccine Caused Child’s Autism, Skeptical Raptor (Mar. 13 2022).
Anti-Vaccine Activists Try to Use Liability Insurance Policies for Easy Money, Skeptical Raptor (May 2022).
Judge Vacates CDC Mask Mandate in a Problematic Decision, Skeptical Raptor (Apr. 25 2022).
Vaccine Consent for Minors – Federal Judge Puts DC Law on Hold, Skeptical Raptor (Mar. 30 2022).
Court Stays the Biden OSHA COVID Vaccine Mandate – an Analysis, Skeptical Raptor (Nov. 17 2021).
Can Colleges and Universities Require Student Covid-19 Vaccination?, Harvard L. Rev. Blog (Mar. 15 2021) (with I. Glenn Cohen).