Welcome to the NVLC
Van Metre Hall
George Mason University’s
Antonin Scalia Law School
Welcome to the NVLC
Van Metre Hall
George Mason University’s
Antonin Scalia Law School
Photo credit: Charles Rones
The first National Vaccine Law Conference has been called to address the urgent need for an increased understanding of the interrelated operations of different aspects of vaccine, vaccination, and immunization law.
The nation now faces a steady drumbeat of anti-vaccine messaging, well-stocked with misinformation and misinterpretation of data, contributing to declining rate of vaccination for childhood diseases such as measles, polio, and tetanus, and growing state-level legislative efforts to weaken and repeal mandates for these vaccines.
As Justice Antonin Scalia once wisely noted, vaccines have become: “victims of their own success. . . so effective in preventing infectious diseases that the public became much less alarmed at the threat of those disease, and much more concerned with the risk of injury from the vaccines themselves.” Bruesewitz v. Wyeth, 562 U.S. 223 (2011). Trends of this nature are some of the key reasons why this Conference will also be a working conference — not just an opportunity for an exchange of knowledge, but a place for cross-disciplinary development of creative thinking in improving the structuring of our legal responses to infectious diseases, new and old, and to counter the heavy toll that such diseases extract from our society.
The conference will be hosted at the George Mason University Antonin Scalia Law School on September 15-16, 2022. The conference will feature an exclusive screening of the new documentary film, Virulent: The Vaccine War, directed by Tjardus Greidanus and produced by Laura Davis. The film will be screened on the evening of September 15.
Attorneys and academics who write, teach, and counsel primarily in this field are keenly aware of the immense attention that has been focused on this field, particularly since the advent of the COVID-19 pandemic, and of the consequent seismic upheavals to practice in different areas of vaccine law.
Within this community, we have experiences this renewed focus in terms of groups in various sectors asking that we provide seminars, presentations, panel participation, and CLE programs. The topics that have been of most interest include:
The conference will present three tracks of content:
Thank you to all 2022 National Vaccine Law Conference Sponsors and Official Partners:
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