Dov Fox

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.

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 serves on advisory boards of the American Constitution Society, Appellate Defenders, Illumina Genomics, and the Association of American Law Schools. At USD, he has chaired appointments and Dean search committees.

Professor Fox is the author of more than 60 scholarly articles in leading journals of law (e.g., Yale Law Journal, Columbia Law Review), medicine (e.g., New England Journal of Medicine, Journal of the American Medical Association), and bioethics (e.g., Journal of Medical Ethics, Bioethics). His op-eds have appeared in Vox, Slate, The Atlantic, The New York Times, and The Washington Post. He has provided on-air legal analysis for CNN, NPR, Vice News, CBS This Morning, NBC Nightly News, and The Today Show. 

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 recent academic 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.

Professor Fox received USD’s Thorsnes Prize for Excellence in Teaching (2021) and Outstanding Legal Scholarship (2020). His work with local communities has earned him recognition as a "San Diego Changemaker" and "Urgent Challenges Innovator." The Life Science Association of California named Professor Fox its Catalyst Award Winner for "significant contributions to human health through research and discovery." His latest academic book, "Birth Rights and Wrongs: How Medicine and Technology are Remaking Reproduction and the Law" (Oxford University Press, 2019) was a finalist for several major awards and reviewed in multiple law symposia. Professor Fox's Audible Original "Donor 9623” was named #1 podcast of 2020 and submitted for a Pulitzer Prize in audio journalism.