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Dov Fox

Dov Fox is Professor of Law and the Director of the Center for Health Law Policy and Bioethics at the University of San Diego School of Law, where he has been named Herzog Endowed Scholar for exceptional scholarship and teaching. He also won BIOCOM’s Life Science Catalyst Award for “significant contributions to human health through research, discovery, and entrepreneurship.” His work has been featured in CNN, ABC, NPR, NBC, Reuter’s, Bloomberg, Slate, Daily Beast, Today Show, Boston Globe, and Washington Post. His latest book project, “Birth Rights and Wrongs,” is forthcoming with Oxford University Press.
  • Health Law Policy

    Reproductive Malpractice and the U.S. Military

    By Alex Stein and Dov Fox Check out the new op-ed at HuffPo by Bill of Health bloggers Dov Fox and Alex Stein on the unfair treatment of American servicewomen (and their children) under the…

    Reproductive Malpractice and the U.S. Military

  • Health Law Policy

    Are Egg Donors like Miners and Boxers?

    By Dov Fox The U.S. tax court has just issued its long-awaited decision in Perez v. Commissioner, 144 T.C. No. 4 (Jan. 22, 2015). (Hat tip to Richard Carpenter, who represented Perez.) The case decided whether the $20,000…

    Are Egg Donors like Miners and Boxers?

  • FDA

    The Expressive Dimension of Donor Deferral

    By Dov Fox The Guardian and L.A. Times are the latest major news organizations to decry trans-Atlantic restrictions on blood donation by men who have sex with men (MSM). The case against such categorical bans has been reignited by…

    The Expressive Dimension of Donor Deferral

  • Criminal Law

    The U.S. Supreme Court vs. The American Psychological Association

    By Dov Fox The U.S. Supreme Court has not in recent years held the views of the American Psychological Association (APA) in so high regard as it did this week. In 2012, the Court set aside the…

    The U.S. Supreme Court vs. The American Psychological Association

  • Criminal Law

    Michael Jackson and Emotional Damages

    By Dov Fox You know the King of Pop died in 2009 while rehearsing for a comeback tour in London. Here’s a twist you may not have heard about: Michael Jackson fan club members sued Conrad Murray,…

    Michael Jackson and Emotional Damages

  • Bioethics

    Genetic Mugshots

    By Dov Fox New technologies can put pressure on the logic of the law. Consider the well-settled legal conclusion that equal protection rights don’t apply when police use race-based descriptions to look for suspects. An emerging…

    Genetic Mugshots

  • Bioethics

    Dov Fox quoted on pre-natal DNA testing

    Dov Fox is quoted in a story in this morning’s Boston Globe on a new study recommending pre-natal DNA testing as a superior method for detecting chromosomal abnormalities in a fetus.  “This technology is certainly…

    Dov Fox quoted on pre-natal DNA testing

  • Bioethics

    Dov Fox on the FDA’s ruling on 23andMe

    Dov Fox has a new piece up at the Huffington Post on the 23andMe controversy: “Genetic Testing Needs a Nudge.” From the article: Mail-away genetic testing promises to revolutionize the way that people learn about and…

    Dov Fox on the FDA’s ruling on 23andMe

  • Human Tissue

    Can you be taxed for selling your eggs?

    By Dov Fox Those who deal in alternative ways of making families use euphemisms that obscure the market mechanisms at work when individuals ‘‘donate’’ their eggs or sperm, couples ‘‘contribute’’ their embryos, surrogates ‘‘offer’’ their wombs,…

    Can you be taxed for selling your eggs?

  • Biotechnology

    Fox interviewed on NPR about FDA’s Ban on Direct-to-Consumer Genetic Testing

    Bill of Health Contributor Dov Fox was interviewed today on NPR’s “Marketplace” about the FDA’s decision to ban all sales of direct-to-consumer genetic testing by 23andMe. 23andMe provides information about genetic health risks to people who buy…

    Fox interviewed on NPR about FDA’s Ban on Direct-to-Consumer Genetic Testing