Saturday, October 2nd, 2021
Special Edition: Are Vaccine Mandates Legal?
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We’re talking about vaccine mandates and asking: Are they constitutional? There’s a lot of debate and many court challenges as the federal and local governments have put various vaccine requirements in place in an effort to fight COVID-19.
Here to discuss and provide her perspective is legal expert Jennifer Oliva. She’s the director of the Center for Health and Pharmaceutical Law at Seton Hall Law and she specializes in health law and policy.
We talk about everything from a legal precedent that’s been in place for more than 100 years to how the weekly testing option impacts the legal argument.
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Guest: Jennifer Oliva
Jennifer D. Oliva is the Associate Dean for Faculty Research & Development and Director of the Center for Health & Pharmaceutical Law at Seton Hall Law. She specializes in health law and policy, FDA law, drug policy, privacy law, evidence and complex litigation.
She also serves as Senior Scholar with the O’Neill Institute for National & Global Health Law at Georgetown Law and on the National Pain Advocacy Center’s Science and Policy Advisory Council. An honors graduate of Georgetown University Law Center, Professor Oliva was a Public Interest Law Scholar and served as Executive Notes & Comments Editor of The Georgetown Law Journal.
Prior to attending law school, Professor Oliva earned a Master’s in Business Administration at the University of Oxford. She was elected as a Rhodes and Truman Scholar while a cadet at the United States Military Academy.
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