Dov Fox

Brady Sisk
bsisk@SanDiego.edu
Herzog Research Professor of Law; University Professor, Director, Center for Health Law Policy & Bioethics
- LLM, 2013, Georgetown University Law Center
- JD, 2010, Yale Law School
- DPhil, 2007, Oxford University
- AB, 2004, Harvard College
Areas of Expertise
Professor Fox is a national expert on health law and bioethics. He also teaches and writes in the areas of torts, criminal law and procedure, family law, civil liberties, reproductive rights, and the regulation of technology. His most recent book is "Birth Rights and Wrongs: How Medicine and Technology are Remaking Reproduction and the Law" (Oxford University Press). His next book is "The Conscience of Care: Navigating Health in the Culture Wars."
Professional Experience
Professor Fox is the author of more than 75 scholarly articles in leading journals of law (e.g., Harvard Law Review, Yale Law Journal), medicine (e.g., New England Journal of Medicine, Journal of the American Medical Association), and public health (e.g., Foreign Affairs, American Journal of Public Health). He has been quoted in popular outlets including The Atlantic, The Economist, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post, and provided on-air analysis for CNN, ABC News, CBS This Morning, NBC Nightly News, and the Today show.
Professor Fox served as a law clerk to the Honorable Stephen Reinhardt of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. He has also worked at the law firm of Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz; the consulting firm of McKinsey & Company; and the Civil Appellate Staff at the U.S. Department of Justice. Professor Fox has served on advisory boards of the American Constitution Society, Appellate Defenders, Illumina Genomics, and the Association of American Law Schools. At the University of San Diego, he has chaired appointments and Dean search committees.
Honors and Affiliations
Professor Fox received the Thorsnes Prize for Excellence in Teaching in 2021 and for Outstanding Legal Scholarship in 2020. His work with local communities has earned him recognition as a "San Diego Changemaker" and "Urgent Challenges Innovator." Professor Fox's Audible Original "Donor 9623” was named #1 podcast of 2020 and submitted for a Pulitzer Prize in investigative journalism. The second season (Audible, 2023) examines family dynamics after the overturning of Roe. His latest series reports on legal controversies at the end of life in the opioid crisis and crackdown.
Professor Fox was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship to attend Oxford University, where he earned his doctorate in political theory and served as a lecturer in politics and philosophy. He received a Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans to attend Yale Law School, where he was projects editor of the Yale Law Journal and all three years awarded the prize for best paper in law and science. His articles on translational medicine, artificial intelligence, and public health policy were selected to present at the Stanford, Penn, and Northwestern Faculty Forum for Law and Technology.
Scholarly Work
- Medical Disobedience, 136 Harvard Law Review 1030 (2023)
- Personhood for Embryos, 10 Journal of Law and Biosciences 1 (2023) (with Gerard Letterie)
- The Abortion Double Bind, 113 American Journal of Public Health (forthcoming 2023)
- Valuing Reproductive Loss, 112 Georgetown Law Journal (forthcoming 2023) (with Jill Wieber Lens)
- The Biotech Battlefield, 101 Foreign Affairs 36 (2022)
- “Fertility Fraud” Legislation – A Turning Point for Informed Consent?, 387 New England Journal of Medicine 770 (2022)
- Causation and Compensation for Intergenerational Harm, 96 Chicago-Kent Law Review 101 (2021)
- Family Planning and its Limits, 23 Journal of Contemporary Legal Issues 85 (2021)
- Reproducing Race in an Era of Reckoning, 105 Minnesota Law Review Online 233 (2021)
- The Supreme Court's Abortion Exceptionalism, 384 New England Journal of Medicine 94 (2021)
- Birth Rights and Wrongs: Reply to Critics, 100 Boston University Law Review Online 159 (2020)
- Redressing Future Losses, 69 DePaul Law Review 419 (2019)
- Subversive Science, 124 Penn State Law Review 153 (2019)
- Thirteenth Amendment Reflections on Abortion and Surrogacy, 104 Cornell Law Review Online 114 (2019)
- Reproductive Negligence, 117 Columbia Law Review 149 (2017)
- Constitutional Retroactivity in Criminal Procedure, 91 Washington Law Review 463 (2016)
- Dualism and Doctrine, 90 Indiana Law Journal 975 (2015)
- Interest Creep, 82 George Washington Law Review 273 (2014)
- Neuro-Voir Dire and the Architecture of Bias, 65 Hastings Law Journal 999 (2014)
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