Events

The University of San Diego School of Law, Institute for Law and Philosophy  conference on Free Speech Beyond the Constitution , will be held at USD on Friday and Saturday, September 27 and 28, 2024.   Papers will be presented by Abner Greene, Thomas Healy, Heidi Hurd, Hrishikesh Sudas Joshi, Michael Moore, Keith Whittingham and Maimon Schwarzschild. All USD Law faculty and Law and Philosophy affiliates are welcome. I f you plan to attend p lease email Mary Klingbeil mklingbeil@sandiego.edu  

The University of San Diego School of Law, Institute for Law and Philosophy  conference on Free Speech Beyond the Constitution , will be held at USD on Friday and Saturday, September 27 and 28, 2024.   Papers will be presented by Abner Greene, Thomas Healy, Heidi Hurd, Hrishikesh Sudas Joshi, Michael Moore, Keith Whittingham and Maimon Schwarzschild. All USD Law faculty and Law and Philosophy affiliates are welcome. I f you plan to attend p lease email Mary Klingbeil mklingbeil@sandiego.edu  

Sherif Girgis Associate Professor of Law University of Notre Dame - The Law School Sherif Girgis joined Notre Dame Law School in 2021. His work at the intersection of philosophy and law—including criminal law, constitutional theory, and jurisprudence—has appeared or is forthcoming in academic and popular venues including the  New York University Law Review , the  Virginia Law Review , the  University of Pennsylvania Law Review , the  Yale Law Journal , the  American Journal of Jurisprudence , the  Cambridge Companion to Philosophy of Law , the  Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy ,  The Wall Street Journal , and  The New York Times . He is coauthor of  What Is Marriage?  (Encounter Books, 2012), cited in a dissent in  United States v. Windsor  (2013), and  Debating Religious Liberty and Discrimination  (Oxford University Press, 2017). Prior to joining Notre Dame, he practiced appellate and complex civil litigation at Jones Day in Washington, D.C., having previously served as a law clerk to Justice Samuel Alito, Jr., of the U.S. Supreme Court and Judge Thomas B. Griffith of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. Now completing his Ph.D. in philosophy at Princeton, Girgis earned his J.D. at Yale Law School, where he served as an editor of the  Yale Law Journal  and won the Felix S. Cohen Prize for best paper in legal philosophy. He earned a master’s degree (B.Phil.) in philosophy from the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar and a bachelor’s in philosophy from Princeton, Phi Beta Kappa and  summa cum laude . Courses Taught Criminal Law (LAW 60302) Jurisprudence (LAW 70812) Constitutional Law II (LAW 70305) Areas of Expertise Criminal law Constitutional law Constitutional theory Law and religion Philosophy of law

Join us for an evening with USD Law Professor Dov Fox, to discuss his audiobook, Donor 9623, about reproductive medicine, mental health, the power of law — and its limits — when the ones we count on the most let us down the hardest. It's a haunting tale of human resilience, the fragility of family, and what it takes to forgive the unforgivable. The eight-episode Part One was named Audible's top audiobook and podcast of the year, with a concluding Part Two (five episodes) released in 2023.  The panel discussion will be moderated by Margaret Dalton   - Vice Dean and Professor of Law, University of San Diego School of Law Panelists: Dr. Jillian Tullis Professor of Communication; and Director of Biomedical Ethics, University of San Diego Dr. Jo Ellen Patterson Professor of Marital and Family Therapy, University of San Diego, and Clinical Professor of Family Medicine and Psychiatry, University of California San Diego  Dr. Diane Keeling Associate Professor of Communication, University of San Diego and Producer of the podcast There's More From the publisher: When scores of aspiring parents turned to the fertility industry to start families, they chose a remarkable young man to be the biological father of their children. He was a music prodigy and gifted athlete who had a genius IQ, movie star looks, and perfect health.  Except it was all a lie.  In this tour de force of investigative reporting, host Dov Fox unravels the case of Donor 9623, examining the complex forces and competing agendas behind the biggest reproductive hoax of our time. The story is dark, propulsive - and in an unexpected turn - hopeful. This Audible Original exposes the billion-dollar industry that creates hundreds of thousands of babies every year, through unprecedented access to its key players - and to Donor 9623 himself.  The 8-episode series raises hard questions about what we want when we set out to have kids - and what happens when we don't get it. It places us in the grip of life lived with crushing uncertainty. And unsettles our deepest understanding of what it means to be human.  About Professor of Law Dov Fox Professor Dov Fox is University Professor, Herzog Research Professor of Law and Director, Center for Health Law Policy & Bioethics at the University of San Diego. He's published more than 75 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). His scholarship has been featured in popular outlets including The Atlantic, The Economist, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post. Professor Fox has also provided on-air analysis for CNN, ABC News, CBS This Morning, NBC Nightly News, and the Today show.  His latest academic books are "Birth Rights and Wrongs: How Medicine and Technology are Remaking Reproduction and the Law" (Oxford University Press, 2019) and "The Conscience of Care: Navigating Health in the Culture Wars" (Harvard University Press, forthcoming, 2024-25).