Dorit
Reiss
Professor of Law
- Office 324-200
- Email Address reissd@uchastings.edu
- Telephone (415) 565-4844
Biography
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.
Expertise
Education
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University of California, Berkeley 2007
Ph.D., Jurisprudence and Social Policy
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Hebrew University of Jerusalem 1999
LLB., Law and Political Science
Accomplishments
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University Fellowship 2002
Awarded by the School of Public Policy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2003 and 2002.
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Graduate Student Fellowship 2000
Awarded by the Jurisprudence and Social Policy Department at the University of California, Berkeley, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2001, 2000.
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Clyde Sandred Johnson Memorial Scholarship 2005
Awarded by the University of California, Berkeley.
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John M. Olin Fellowship in Law and Economics 2000
Awarded by the University of California, Berkeley.
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University Fellowship 2000
Awarded by the Faculty of Law at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem.
Selected Scholarship
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Responding to the Childhood Vaccination Crisis: Legal Frameworks and Tools in the Context of Parental Vaccine Refusal 03/2015
Buffalo Law Review
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Funding the Costs of Disease Outbreaks Caused by Non Vaccination 06/2014
Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics
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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 02/2014
Hastings Law Journal
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Compensating the Victims of Failure to Vaccinate: What are the Options? 07/2013
Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy
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The Benefits of Capture 08/2011
Wake Forest Law Review