Vendula Kolařík Mezeiová

Socio-Legal Studies, Health Law, Regulation – University of Oxford, Faculty of Law, Centre for Socio-Legal Studies

My doctoral research examines how parents and medical professionals construct the legitimacy of different regulatory approaches to vaccination against measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) in France. The research asks what matters for the legitimacy of vaccination regulatory tools besides legal and institutional reasoning. How do those directly involved in lived vaccination practices and interactions, like parents and medical professionals, understand, justify, or contest different regulatory techniques? The research project examines micro-level discourses and regulatory dynamics unfolding in MMR vaccination decision-making, including the intimate imaginaries beyond polarising notions of coercion or autonomy. The project aims to contribute to socio-legal understandings of the legitimacy and power dynamics in different regulatory approaches.