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Awarded by the School of Public Policy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2003 and 2002.

University Fellowship

Awarded by the Jurisprudence and Social Policy Department at the University of California, Berkeley, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2001, 2000.

Graduate Student Fellowship

Awarded by the University of California, Berkeley.

Clyde Sandred Johnson Memorial Scholarship

John M. Olin Fellowship in Law and Economics

Awarded by the Faculty of Law at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem.

San Francisco Immunization Coalition : Member, Board of Directors (Since 2013)

Voices for Vaccines : Member, Parents Advisory Board (Since 2013)

American Bar Association : Vice Chair, Sub Committee on International and Comparative Law, Adminstrative Law Section

Law and Society Association : Member (Since 2001)

Responding to the Childhood Vaccination Crisis: Legal Frameworks and Tools in the Context of Parental Vaccine Refusal 

Funding the Costs of Disease Outbreaks Caused by Non Vaccination

Thou Shalt Not Take the Name of the Lord Thy God in Vain: Use and Abuse of Religious Exemptions from School Immunization Requirements

Compensating the Victims of Failure to Vaccinate: What are the Options?

The Benefits of Capture

Professor Dorit Rubinstein Reiss’ undergraduate degree in Law and Political Science (1999, Magna cum Laude) is from the Faculty of Law in the Hebrew University of Jerusalem where she served as Editor in Chief of the Law Review. Following graduation from law school, Professor Reiss clerked for a year and a half in the Israeli Ministry of Justice’s Department of Public Law, working on a variety of constitutional and administrative law issues.

She received 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. During her studies in Berkeley she worked as a teaching assistant in ten courses, winning the Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award.

Professor Reiss’ research examined accountability of agencies at the state, national and international level, with agencies studied including the CPUC, the FAA, and other agencies in the United States and Europe. Increasingly, however, her research and activities are focused on legal issues related to vaccines, including exemption laws and tort liability related to non-vaccination.

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Law and Vaccines

Law Review Articles on SSRN

California Approves Comprehensive Bill That Requires Vaccinations; Only Medical Exemptions Will Be Approved

Unvaccinated Families' Addresses Should Be Made Public

Inside the Vaccine War: Measles Outbreak Rekindles Debate on Autism, Parental Choice & Public Health

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