In This Episode...
I speak with Professor Doron Dorfman, Associate Professor of Law about his newest article, Penalizing Prevention: The Paradoxical Legal Treatment of Preventive Medicine.
About Our Guest..
Professor Dorfman’s research and teaching focus on disability law, health law, employment law, torts, and family law. His work has won multiple writing awards, was cited by federal courts and the Israeli Supreme Court, and was featured in the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, and USA Today.
In 2023, Professor Dorfman was honored with the Michael J. Zimmer Memorial Award for a rising scholar who has made a significant contribution to the field of work law. In 2021, he was invited to testify before Congress on the relationship between vaccine requirements and anti-discrimination law.
Professor Dorfman’s research was published or is forthcoming in leading law reviews such as the Michigan Law Review, Cornell Law Review, and University of Pennsylvania Law Review. He also published in top peer review journals including the New England Journal of Medicine, Law & Society Review, Law & Social Inquiry, and the Journal of Health Politics, Policy & Law.
Professor Dorfman is a frequent contributor to the Bill of Health Blog at Harvard Law’s Petrie-Flom Center and is an editor for the Equality Section of Jotwell. He serves in leadership roles in the AALS Section on Disability Law and Section on Law, Medicine and Health care and is also the co-organizer of the Disability Legal Studies Collaborative Research Network (CRN) in the Law & Society Association. Dorfman is an affiliated researcher with the aChord Center: Social Psychology for Social Change at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Prior to Seton Hall Law School, Professor Dorfman taught at Syracuse University College of Law. He earned a B.A. in communication (2009), an LL.B. (J.D. equivalent, 2009) and an LL.M. (2010), all from the University of Haifa. He later earned a J.S.M. (2014) and J.S.D. (2019) from Stanford Law School. Before arriving at Stanford, he was a litigator in private practice in Israel and was actively involved in NGOs such as Kav La’Oved-Worker’s Hotline, where he gave legal advice to disadvantaged workers and asylum seekers.
You can follow Professor Dorfman on X @DorfmanDoron.