Fall 2024
Professor(s):
Brian Abramson (ADJUNCT)
Credits: 3
Course Areas: Health Law
Time: 4:00p-5:30p MW Location:
Course Outline: This course covers the development, regulation and licensure of vaccines; equitable distribution and administration issues; public and private vaccination mandates, exemptions, exclusions, and accommodations; the National Vaccine Injury Compensation System and other means of compensation for vaccine adverse events; legal responses to antivaccination activism; bioterrorism and pandemic response; and international and comparative issues in vaccine law.
Course Syllabus: Syllabus
Course Notes: (Synchronous Online) The UH registration system instruction mode for this course is listed in parenthesis. Contrary to the UH information, some student materials may not be available online, such as an assigned casebook. A physical classroom may be assigned for this course to give students a location in the Law Center to join the virtual class sessions. If the course has a final examination, the final and any other assessment for the course, such as a mid-term exam, will be conducted without the need to physically come to the Law Center, such as, for example, via the EBB portal as a take home exam or under remote proctoring.
Professor will meet in person twice during the semester face to face at UH Law Center. Dates will be announced later.
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This course will have:
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Satisfies Senior Upper Level Writing Requirement: No
Experiential Course Type: No
Bar Course: No
DistanceEd ABA: Yes
Pass-Fail Student Election: Available
Course Materials
Book(s) Required
Course Materials: Reiss & Yang, Vaccine Law and Policy (Springer, 2023), ISBN:978-3031369889; hereinafter VLP.
Abramson, et al., Vaccine, Vaccination, and Immunization Law (Bloomberg/AHLA 2018 [2023 update]; hereinafter VVIL), which is available electronically via FIU’s subscription to Bloomberg Law. It is not necessary to buy the print edition of the book; the edition available electronically is substantially expanded and has differences in arrangement. And it's free.
