Dorit Reiss

Bio

Professor Dorit Rubinstein Reiss’ received her undergraduate degree in Law and Political Science from the Faculty of Law in the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and her Ph.D. from the Jurisprudence and Social Policy program in UC Berkeley, writing her dissertation on accountability in the liberalized telecommunications and electricity sectors in England, France and Sweden.

Professor Reiss’ initial research examined accountability of administrative agencies at the state, national and international level, using as case studies  the California Public Utility Commission (CPUC), the FAA, and other agencies in the United States and Europe.

Her current research and activities focus on legal and policy issues related to vaccines. She writes about vaccines mandates, policy responses to non-vaccinating, tort issues and administrative issues related to vaccines, and the anti-vaccine movement.

Professor Reiss teaches torts, administrative law, public health law, and several seminars, and appreciates the opportunity to work with UC Law SF’ talented, hardworking body of students.

Education

• University of California, Berkeley
  Ph.D., Jurisprudence and Social Policy 2007

• Hebrew University of Jerusalem
  LLB., Law and Political Science 1999

Selected Scholarship

• Litigating Alternative Facts: School Mandates in the Courts
  University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law 2018

• Influenza Mandates and Religious Accommodation: Avoiding Legal Pitfalls
  Journal of Law Medicine & Ethics 2018

• Regulating in the Era of Fake News: Anti-Vaccine Activists Respond to the CDC Quarantine Rule
  University of Pittsburgh Law Review 2018

• Legal Approaches to Promoting Parental Compliance with Childhood Immunization Recommendations
  Hum. Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics 2018

• Responding to the Childhood Vaccination Crisis: Legal Frameworks and Tools in the Context of Parental Vaccine Refusal
  Buffalo Law Review 2015

• Funding the Costs of Disease Outbreaks Caused by Non Vaccination
  Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics 2014

• Thou Shalt Not Take the Name of the Lord Thy God in Vain: Use and Abuse of Religious Exemptions from School Immunization Requirements
  UC Law SF Journal 2014

• Compensating the Victims of Failure to Vaccinate: What are the Options?
  Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy 2013

• The Benefits of Capture
  Wake Forest Law Review 2012