The USD School of Law faculty publishes regularly in some of the nation's top academic journals. Check out featured scholarship from some of the most distinguished scholars in their respective fields.
Fox, Dov
Books
- The Conscience of Care: Navigating Health in the Culture Wars (Harvard University Press 2025)
- Donor 9623: Part II (Audible 2023)
- Donor 9623: One Man. 36 Kids. The Biggest Hoax in Reproductive History (Audible 2020)
- Birth Rights and Wrongs: How Medicine and Technology are Remaking Reproduction and the Law (Oxford University Press 2019)
- The Truth About Harvard: A Behind the Scenes Look at Admissions and Life on Campus (Princeton Review 2004)
Journal Articles
- Putting the L in ELSI: Legal Methods for Bioethics Research, 13 Journal of Law and Biosciences 1 (2026) (with Anya Prince et al.)
- Reproductive Abuse, 74 UCLA Law Review (forthcoming) (with Mary Ziegler)
- The New Abortion, 125 Columbia Law Review 1555 (2025) (with Mary Ziegler)
- Cliff Running, 103 Washington University Law Review 155 (2025) (with William Ortman)
- The Personhood Double Standard, 59 UC Davis Law Review Online 173 (2025)
- The Precarious Future of Consumer Genetic Privacy, 389 Science 1092 (2025)
- Choosing Your 'Healthiest' Embryo After Dobbs: Polygenic Screening and Distinctive Challenges for Truth in Advertising and Informed Consent, 38 Harvard Journal of Law and Technology 463 (2024) (with Sonia M. Suiter et al.)
- Legal Disputes Over Frozen Embryos after Dobbs: A Retrospective Study of Claims, Contracts, and Liability in Cases of Divorce or Separation, 45 Pace Law Review 73 (2024) (with Gerard Letterie)
- The Lost History of 'History and Tradition', 98 Southern California Law Review 101 (2024) (with Mary Ziegler)
- Medical Disobedience, 136 Harvard Law Review 1030 (2023)
- The Abortion Double Bind, 113 American Journal of Public Health 1068 (2023)
- Valuing Reproductive Loss, 112 Georgetown Law Journal 61 (2023) (with Jill Wieber Lens)
- Legal Personhood and Frozen Embryos, 10 Journal of Law and Biosciences 1 (2023) (with Gerard Letterie)
- Rethinking Nomenclature for Interspecies Cell Fusions, 23 Nature Reviews Genetics 23 (2022)
- The Biotech Battlefield, 101 Foreign Affairs 36 (2022)
- The “Fertility Fraud” Turning Point in Informed Consent Doctrine, 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 (book symposium), 100 Boston University Law Review Online 159 (2020)
- Causation and Compensation for Intergenerational Harm, 96 Chicago-Kent Law Review (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)
- Making Things Right When Medicine Goes Wrong: Reply to Robert Rabin, Carol Sanger, and Gregory Keating, 118 Columbia Law Review Online 94 (2018)
- Privatizing Procreative Liberty in the Shadows of Eugenics, 5 Journal of Law and Biosciences 355 (2018)
- Returning Results to Family Members: Professional Duties in Genomics Research in the United States, 38 Journal of Legal Medicine 201 (2018) (with Spencer & Torkamani)
- Reproductive Negligence, 117 Columbia Law Review 149 (2017)
- Constitutional Retroactivity in Criminal Procedure, 91 Washington Law Review 463 (2016)
- Selective Procreation in Public and Private Law, 64 UCLA Law Review Discourse 294 (2016)
- Dualism and Doctrine, 90 Indiana Law Journal 975 (2015)
- Medical Malpractice Claims in Radiation Oncology: A Population-based Study 1985-2012, 93 International Journal of Radiation Oncology, Biology, Physics 241 (2015) (with Hattangadi-Gluth et al.)
- Race Sorting in Family Formation, 49 Family Law Quarterly 57 (2015)
- The State's Interest in Potential Life, 43 Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics 345 (2015)
- Interest Creep, 82 George Washington Law Review 273 (2014)
- Neuro-Voir Dire and the Architecture of Bias, 65 Hastings Law Journal 999 (2014)
- Retracing Liberalism and Remaking Nature, 24 Bioethics 170 (2010)
- Taking Sides on Genetic Modification, 1 American Journal of Bioethics 56 (2010)
- The Expressive Dimension of Donor Deferral, 10 American Journal of Bioethics 42 (2010)
- The Second Generation of Racial Profiling, 38 American Criminal Law Review 49 (2010)
- Disability-Selective Abortion and the Americans with Disabilities Act, Utah Law Review 845 (2009)
- Prenatal Screening Policy in International Perspective: Lessons from Israel, Cyprus, Taiwan, China, and Singapore, 9 Yale Journal of Health Policy, Law, and Ethics 471 (2009)
- Racial Classification in Assisted Reproduction, 118 Yale Law Journal 1884 (2009)
- The Right to Silence Protects Mental Control, 42 Akron Law Review 763 (2009)
- Brain Imaging and the Bill of Rights, 8 American Journal of Bioethics 34 (2008)
- Choosing Your Child's Race, 22 Hastings Women's Law Journal 3 (2008)
- Parental Attention Deficit Disorder, 25 Journal of Applied Philosophy 246 (2008)
- Paying for Particulars in People-to-Be, 34 Journal of Medical Ethics 162 (2008)
- Self-Made Men and Man-Made Selves, 70 The Review of Politics 665 (2008)
- The Regulation of Biotechnologies, 38 The Hastings Center Report 57 (2008)
- Silver Spoons and Golden Genes, 33 American Journal of Law and Medicine 568 (2007)
- The Illiberality of Liberal Eugenics, 20 Ratio 1 (2007)
- Appointment or Election of Federal Judges?, 5 The Oxonian Review of Books 20 (2006)
- Ethics and Law in FDA Decision-Making, Michigan State Law Review 1135 (2005)
- Genetic Testing and Health Insurance, 1 Roosevelt Review 109 (2005)
- State Neutrality and the Stem Cell Debate, 4 Review Journal of Political Philosophy 99 (2005)
- Human Growth Hormone and the Measure of Man, 1 New Atlantis 75 (2004)
Chapters of Books or Articles within Books
- Religion and the Unborn Under the First Amendment, in Law, Religion, and Health in America (Holly Lynch, I. Glenn Cohen & Eliza Seppen eds., Cambridge University Press 2017)
- Preserving Genome Privacy in Research Studies, in Medical Data Privacy Handbook (Aris Gkoulalas-Divanis & Grigorios Loukides eds., 2015) (with Wang et al.)
Other Print and Electronic Media
- Texas Says a Fetus Is a Child, Except When a Parent Sues a Negligent Doctor or State Official, Slate (2023) (with Jill Wieber Lens)
- What Will Happen if Doctors Defy the Law to Provide Abortions?, The New York Times (2022)
- Abortion, Eugenics, and Personhood in the Supreme Court, Fertility & Sterility (2020)
- June Medical Services v. Russo—the Future of Abortion Access in the United States, JAMA Health Forum (2020) (with Cohen & Adashi)
- The Legal Challenge of Abortion Stigma—and Government Restrictions on the Practice of Medicine, Hastings Center Report (Garrison, N.Y.) (2020)
- A Troubling Court Decision for Reproductive Rights: Legal Recognition of Fetal Standing to Sue, Vol. 322, JAMA (2019) (with Cohen & Adashi)
- Fertility Fraud, Legal Firsts, Medical Ethics, Vol. 134, Obstetrics & Gynecology (2019) (with Cohen & Adashi)
- How Technology is Changing Reproduction and the Law, OUPblog (2019)
- Law and Ethics of Trump Administration Restrictions on Fetal Tissue Research, Heath Affairs (2019) (with Cohen)
- Legal Challenges in the Medicine of Miracles, Bill of Health (2019)
- The Law and Ethics of Fetal Burial Requirements for Reproductive Health Care, Vol. 322, JAMA (2019) (with Cohen & Adashi)
- The Legal Limbo of Lost Embryos, Vox (2019)
- What Happens When Reproductive Tech Like IVF Goes Awry?, Wired (2019)
- In Vitro Injuries, Slate (2018)
- Losing Embryos, Finding Justice: Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Personhood, Vol. 169, Annals of Internal Medicine (2018) (with Cohen & Adashi)
- Mass Embryo Destruction, Reproductive Never Events, and the Not-Quite-Wild West, Bill of Health (2018)
- Silver Spoons and Golden Genes: Designing Inequality?, Bill of Health (2018)
- The Patient Said He Would Rather Die: Should You Let Him?, Vol. 157, The Journal of Thoracic & Cardiovascular Surgery (2018) (with Coselli & Sade)
- A Community Effort to Protect Genomic Data Sharing, Collaboration and Outsourcing, Vol. 2, NPJ Genomic Medicine (2017) (with Wang et al.)
- Can Trump Censor Climate Science?, Huffington Post (2017)
- Genome Privacy: Challenges, Technical Approaches to Mitigate Risk, and Ethical Considerations in the United States, Vol. 1387, Annals of N.Y. Academy of Sciences (2017) (with Wang et al.)
- PRINCESS: Privacy-Protecting Rare Disease International Network Collaboration via Encryption through Software Guard Extensions, Vol. 33, Bioinformatics (2017) (with Chen et al.)
- Protecting Genomic Data Analytics in the Cloud: State of the Art and Opportunities, Vol. 9, BMC Medical Genomics (2017) (with Tang et al.)
- What if Trump Censors Climate Science?, Take Care (2017)
- Reproduction Gone Awry, Daily Journal (2016)
- From Chance to Choice to Court, Huffington Post (2016)
- When Is a Juror Too Biased?, CNN (2016)
- Reproductive Malpractice and the U.S. Military, The Huffington Post (2015)
- The GOP Case Against Stem Cell Research, The Huffington Post (2015)
- Reproducing Race, The Huffington Post (2014)
- Genetic Testing Needs a Nudge, The Huffington Post (2014)
- The Forgotten Holding of Roe v. Wade, The Huffington Post (2013)
- 23andMe's Designer Baby Patent, The Huffington Post (2013)
- The Future of Genetic Privacy, The Huffington Post (2013)
- Let Low-Risk Gay Men Give Blood, The Huffington Post (2013)
- DNA Forensic Error and the Execution of Innocents, The Huffington Post (2013)
- The Flawed Logic of Prenatal Discrimination, The Huffington Post (2013)
- It's Time for the U.S. to Cover IVF (for Gays and Lesbians Too), The Huffington Post (2013) (with Cohen)
- Greater Disability Protection Doesn't Mean Less Selective Abortion, The Huffington Post (2013) (with Griffin)