A Message from Professor Leslie Gielow Jacobs
Dear Colleague:
I am leading the University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law's Bioterrorism, National Security and Public Health Law Initiative. One goal is to encourage introduction of bioterrorism and public health law issues into the law school curriculum. With a grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Pacific McGeorge conducted a workshop of public health and legal experts from around the country and designed model syllabi for a course in Bioterrorism and Public Health Law.
Because not everyone can offer a full course, I have prepared a 4-class module of teaching materials titled Bioterrorism, Infectious Diseases and Constitutional Rights. I am a constitutional law professor, and used these materials at the end of my constitutional law course this spring to show the students how public health emergencies such as the current SARS epidemic and threat of bioterrorism raise a host of fascinating constitutional issues. Specifically, the materials cover the due process and equal protection implications of quarantine, the due process and religion clause implications of mandatory vaccination and the free speech implications of restricting dissemination of scientific information to protect against the bioterrorism threat.
I write to invite you to use some or all of these materials in one of your courses this year. I can send a hard copy at your request. I would also be happy to send my outline of issues and questions for teaching the materials if you decide that you would like to use them. Please e-mail your request to 
Leslie Jacobs.
I look forward to hearing from you.
Sincerely,
Leslie Gielow Jacobs