48 Years of Impactful Scholarship

V 45 Symposium

Defining The New Normal
How Vaccinations are Shaping
the Modern World

Friday, February 18, 2022
10 a.m. – 3 p.m.

via Zoom Webinar

About the Program

Join the Fordham International Law Journal as they welcome scholars, practitioners, and advocates to speak about how the COVID-19 vaccine has changed the world in just a year’s time. Throughout the day, speakers will address the unique problems that have developed as vaccinated nations try to return to life as it once was and will look ahead to discuss what must happen to have a safer, healthy world in the COVID-19 era and beyond.

Agenda

10:00-10:05 a.m. | Introduction

10:05-10:10 a.m. | Dean's Welcome Remarks


10:10-11:30 a.m. | Vacci[nations]: How We Close the Global Vaccine Equity Gap

Dr. Jennifer Nuzzo
Associate Professor, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health; Senior Fellow for Global Health, Council on Foreign Relations

Jorge Contreras
Presidential Scholar and Professor, University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law

Garrett Wilkinson
Government Relations & Policy Officer, Partners in Health

Moderator: Wendy Luftig
Adjunct Professor, Fordham Law School; Senior Manager (Global Drug Development), Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation

11:40 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. | Data Privacy and the Pandemic
Dr. Lisa Zivkovic
Associate, Morrison & Foerster

Artur Pericles Lima Monteiro
Visiting Fellow, Yale Law School; Head of Research (Freedom of Expression), InternetLab

Maria Grazia Porcedda
Assistant Professor in IT Law, Trinity College Dublin

Moderator: Tom Norton
Executive Director of the Center on Law and Information Policy, Fordham Law School

1:00 - 1:30 p.m. | Break

1:30 - 2:50 p.m. | Back to Work: Vaccine Mandates in the Post-Covid Workplace
Paul Diller
Visiting Professor, Lewis & Clark Law School; Professor, Willamette University College of Law

Francesca Gaudino
Head of Information Technology & Communications Group, Baker McKenzie

Dorit Reiss
Professor and James Edgar Hervey '50 Chair of Litigation, UC Hastings

Moderator: Aaron Saiger

Professor, Fordham Law School


CLE Credits will be available.


Panelists

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Protecting the Vulnerable” - NY Times Article

At this point in the pandemic, there is a strong argument that a targeted approach — lifting restrictions while taking specific measures to protect the vulnerable — can maximize public health. The right approach, Jennifer Nuzzo, an epidemiologist at Johns Hopkins University, told me, involves “moving away from broad, blunt tools to more precision tools.”