When the families take legal action, courts must wrestle with fundamental questions about the genetics of disease, the value of human life, and what it means to love your child.
Dov Fox is the Herzog Research Professor of Law at the University of San Diego, where he founded and directs the Center for Health Law Policy & Bioethics. Named professor of the year for both teaching excellence and outstanding scholarship, he also holds the university’s highest academic honor bestowed on faculty in any field. Fox’s articles have been published 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 work has also been featured in major newspapers (e.g.,
New York Times,
Wall Street Journal), magazines (e.g.,
The Atlantic,
The Economist), and television programs (e.g.,
CBS This Morning,
NBC Today Show). Part One of his original series
Donor 9623 was named Audible’s #1 podcast of 2020 and submitted for a Pulitzer Prize in investigative journalism. Fox’s latest book,
Birth Rights and Wrongs: How Medicine and Technology are Remaking Reproduction and the Law, was published by Oxford University Press. His next book is
The Conscience of Care: Policing the Boundaries of Health in Post-Roe America.