Draft:Vaccine law

Vaccine law is an area of law that encompasses multiple legal disciplines relating to the regulation, commercialization, and deployment of vaccines, generally directed towards the public policy goal of protecting society from vaccine-preventable infectious disease.

Vaccination policy is an element of vaccine law specifically directed to efforts to promote the use of vaccines as measures to counter the spread of disease in human populations.

• Regulation of vaccine clinical trials.
• Vaccine licensure, as an aspect of regulation of therapeutic goods.
• Intellectual property, primarily patents.
• Vaccine equity; Vaccine access, funding and distribution.
• Vaccination mandates and exemptions.
• Vaccine injury compensation.
• Legal responses to vaccine misinformation.

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This open draft remains in progress as of July 5, 2023.