Misinformation and COVID-19, 63 Santa Clara L. Rev. 147 (2023). FULLTEXT
Vaccination Mandates—An Old Public Health Tool Faces New Challenges, JAMA (2023) (with Lawrence O. Gostin & Michelle M. Mello) Published online July 24, 2023. FULLTEXT
Vaccines In The Courts: A COVID-19-Induced Litigation Influx, Health Aff. Forefront (Nov. 6, 2023) (with Richard Hughes IV). URL
Commentary: No Right Answer: Officials Need Discretion on Whether to Allow Natural Immunity Exemptions, 48 J. Med. Ethics (6) (2022). URL
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). FULLTEXT
COVID-19 and Regulating Vaccines, 85 Soc. Educ. 129 (2021). FULLTEXT
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). FULLTEXT
COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates for University Students, ___ N.Y.U. J. Legis. & Pub. Pol'y ___ (2021) (with John DiPaolo). SSRN
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). FULLTEXT
Employer-Mandated Vaccination for COVID-19, 111 Am. J. Public Health 1061 (2021) (with Mark A. Rothstein & Wendy E. Parmet). FULLTEXTSSRN
Experimental? It Doesn't Mean What You Think it Means, Denver L. Rev. Forum (2021) (with Arthur Caplan). URL
How Congress Can Help Raise Vaccine Rates, 96 Notre Dame L. Rev. Online 42 (2021) (with Y. Tony Yang). FULLTEXTSSRN
Promoting COVID-19 Vaccine Acceptance: Recommendations from the Lancet Commission on Vaccine Refusal, Acceptance, and Demand in the USA, The Lancet (Nov. 15, 2021) (with Saad B. Omer, et al.). URL
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). FULLTEXT
Vaccines Mandates and Religion: Where are We Headed with the Current Supreme Court?, 49 J.L. Med. & Ethics 552 (2021). URL
Commentary: The Americans with Disabilities Act and Healthcare Employer-Mandated Vaccinations, 38 Vaccine 3184 (2020) (with Y. Tony Yang & Elizabeth Pendo). URL
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). FULLTEXT
Digging the Rabbit Hole, COVID-19 Edition: Anti-Vaccine Themes and the Discourse Around COVID-19, 22 Microbes & Infection 608 (November–December 2020) (with Tara C. Smith). FULLTEXT
Informed Consent to Vaccination: Theoretical, Legal, and Empirical Insights, 45 Am. J.L. & Med. 357 (2020) (with Nili Karako-Eyal). SSRNURL
Institutionalizing the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Independence, 12 ConLawNOW 107 (2020). FULLTEXTSSRN
More Than a Mask: Stay-At-Home Orders and Religious Freedom, 57 San Diego L. Rev. 947 (2020) (with Madeline Thomas). FULLTEXTSSRN
Providing Adolescents with Independent and Confidential Access to Childhood Vaccines: A Proposal to Lower the Age of Consen, 52 Conn. L. Rev. 771 (2020) (with Lois A. Weithorn). SSRN
The COVID-19 Vaccine Dilemma, 6 Admin. L. Rev. Accord 49 (2020). FULLTEXTSSRN
When Are Vaccine Mandates Appropriate?, 22 AMA J. Ethics E36 (2020) (with Carmel Shachar). FULLTEXT
When Public Participation is Public Theatre: Misuse of Public Comment Opportunities by Anti-Vaccine Activists, 73 Stan. L. Rev. Online (May 2020) (with Barbara S. Romzek). FULLTEXTSSRN
Government Role in Regulating Vaccine Misinformation on Social Media Platforms, 173 JAMA Pediatrics 1011 (2019) (with Y. Tony Yang & David A. Broniatowski). URL
Measles and Misrepresentation in Minnesota: Can there be Liability for Anti Vaccine Misinformation that Causes Bodily Harm?, 56 San Diego L. Rev. 531 (2019) (with John L. Diamond). FULLTEXTSSRN
The Law and Vaccine Resistance, 363 Sci. 795 (2019). FULLTEXT
Using and Misusing Legal Decisions: Why Antivaccine Claims About NVICP Cases Are Wrong, 20 Minn. J. L. Sci. & Tech. 191 (2019). FULLTEXTSSRN
Commentary: Vaccine Medical Exemptions Are a Delegated Public Health Authority, 142 Pediatrics (2018) (with Richard J. Pan). FULLTEXT
French Mandatory Vaccine Policy, 7 Vaccine 1323 (2018) (with Y. Tony Yang). URL
Influenza Mandates and Religious Accommodation: Avoiding Legal Pitfalls, 46 J.L. Med. & Ethics 756 (2018) (with V.B. Dubal). FULLTEXTURL
Litigating Alternative Facts: School Mandates in the Courts, 21 U. Pa. J. Const. L. 207 (2018). FULLTEXTSSRN
Regulating in the Era of Fake News: Anti-Vaccine Activists Respond to the CDC Quarantine Rule, 79 U. Pitt. L. Rev. 676 (2018). FULLTEXTSSRN
CDC’s New Rule to Track and Quarantine Travellers, 24 J. Travel Med. 70 (2017) (with Y. Tony Yang). FULLTEXTURL
Decoupling Vaccine Laws, 58 B.C. L. Rev. E. Supp. 9 (2017). FULLTEXTSSRNURL
Rights of the Unvaccinated Child, 73 Stud. L. Pol. & Soc'y 75 (2017).
Ensuring Compliance From 35,000 Feet: Accountability and Trade-Offs in Aviation Safety Regulatory Networks, 50 Admin & Soc'y 1478 (2016) (with Russell W. Mills & Christopher J. Koliba). URL
First Do No Harm: Protecting Patients Through Immunizing Health Care Workers, 26 Health Matrix 363 (2016) (with Rene F. Najera). SSRN
Funding the Costs of Disease Outbreaks Caused by Non Vaccination, 43 J.L. Med. & Ethics 633 (2015) (with Charlotte A Moser & Robert L. Schwartz). FULLTEXTSSRN
Herd Immunity and Immunization Policy: The Importance of Accuracy, 94 Or. L. Rev. 1 (2015). FULLTEXTSSRN
Medical Advice and Vaccinating: What Liability, 26 U. Fla. J.L. & Pub. Pol'y 265 (2015). SSRN
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 A. Weithorn). FULLTEXTSSRN
The Eye of the Beholder: Participation and Impact in Telecommunications (De)Regulation, 6 Wm & Mary Pol’y Rev. 56 (2015). FULLTEXTSSRN
Vaccines, Measles and Rights, 2 Wake Forest L. Rev. Common Law 138 (2015). FULLTEXTURL
Vaccines, School Mandates, and California's Right to Education, 63 UCLA L. Rev. Disc. 98 (2015). FULLTEXTSSRNURL
Compensating the Victims of Failure to Vaccinate: What are the Options?, 23 Cornell J.L. & Pub. Pol'y 595 (2014). FULLTEXT
Relying on Government in Comparison: What can the United States Learn from Abroad in Relation to Administrative Estoppel?, 38 Hastings Int'l & Comp. L. Rev. 75 (2014). FULLTEXT
Secondary Learning and the Unintended Benefits of Collaborative Mechanisms: The Federal Aviation Administration’s Voluntary Disclosure Programs, 8 Reg. & Governance 437 (2014) (with Russell W. Mills). URL
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). FULLTEXT
The Benefits of Capture, 47 Wake Forest L. Rev. 569 (2012). FULLTEXTSSRN
Account Me In: Agencies in Quest of Accountability, 19 J.L. & Pol'y 611 (2011). FULLTEXTSSRN
No Innocents Here: Using Litigation to Fight Against the Costs of Universal Service in France, 1 Creighton Int'l & Comp. L.J. 5 (2011). FULLTEXTSSRN
Agency Accountability Strategies After Liberalization: Universal Service in the United Kingdom, France, and Sweden, 31 Law & Pol'y 111 (2009). FULLTEXTSSRN
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). FULLTEXTSSRN
Tailored Participation: Modernizing the APA Rulemaking Procedures, 12 N.Y.U. J. Legis. & Pub. Pol'y 321 (2009). FULLTEXTSSRN
Chapters In Books
Vaccine Law: COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates for University Students Vaccine Law: COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates for University Students, inThe Judges' Book vol 7, 0 (UC Law 2023). URL
The Anti-Vaccine Movement: A Litany of Fallacy and Errors, inPseudoscience: The Conspiracy Against Science 195 (Allison B. Kaufman and James C. Kaufman eds., MIT Press 2018) (with Jonathan Howard). URL
When Children Pay the Price of Freedom of Religion, inReligious Freedom in America: A Reference Book 125 (Michael C. LeMay ed., ABC-CLIO 2018). AMAZON
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, inTrust 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, inComparative Administrative Law 373 (Susan Rose-Ackerman & Peter L. Lindseth eds., Edward Elgar 2010). CATALOG
Newspaper & Magazine Articles
Facebook and Google are Prolonging the Pandemic, S.F. Chron., Mar. 1, 2021. URL
One More Argument Against Vaccine Mandates Crumbles, Barron's, May 11, 2021 (with Arthur Caplan). URL
Op-Ed: OSHA suspended its vaccine rule after judges got it wrong, L.A. Times, Nov. 18, 2021. URL
Opinion: Yes, Biden Has the Power to Require Vaccines or Testing in Private Businesses, Wash. Post, Nov. 9, 2021 (with Lawrence O. Gostin). URL
Let Minors Choose Themselves to Vaccinate Against Measles, Seattle Times, Feb. 18, 2019 (with David I. Levine). URL
Parents Have No Right to Expose Other Kids, S.F. Daily Journal, Mar. 30, 2015. URL
Dismantling the NVICP Is Bad for All of Us, Law.Com and The Recorder, Nov. 22, 2013. CATALOG
Other Publications
Anti-Vaccine Activists Try to Use Liability Insurance Policies for Easy Money, Skeptical Raptor (May 1, 2022). URL
Judge Vacates CDC Mask Mandate in a Problematic Decision, Skeptical Raptor (Apr. 25, 2022). URL
Jury Rejects Malpractice Claim That a Vaccine Caused Child’s Autism, Skeptical Raptor (Mar. 13, 2022). URL
Vaccine Consent for Minors — Federal Judge Puts DC Law on Hold, Skeptical Raptor (Mar. 30, 2022). URL
Court Stays the Biden OSHA COVID Vaccine Mandate — an Analysis, Skeptical Raptor (Nov. 17, 2021). URL
Can Colleges and Universities Require Student Covid-19 Vaccination?, Harvard L. Rev. Blog (Mar. 15, 2021) (with I. Glenn Cohen). URL
Dissertations & Theses
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).