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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.
  • Bioethics

    Dov Fox on Roe v. Wade

    In a new piece at the Huffington Post, Bill of Health Contributor Dov Fox explores “The Forgotten Holding of Roe v. Wade“ — that states have a valid reason to regulate reproductive conduct because of an…

    Dov Fox on Roe v. Wade

  • Bioethics

    Dov Fox on screening sperm donors’ DNA

    In “Company seeks to make sperm banks safer,” a recent article in the Boston Globe, Bill of Health blogger Dov Fox recently weighed in on new companies that propose to screen sperm donor DNA in an…

    Dov Fox on screening sperm donors’ DNA

  • Bioethics

    Dov Fox on the question of “designer babies”

    Bill of Health blogger Dov Fox was quoted in the recent article “Genetic-testing patent raises concerns about ‘designer babies’.” “‘Some people might say this is in some respects similar to dating websites to the extent…

    Dov Fox on the question of “designer babies”

  • Genetics & Genomics

    Fox on 23andMe’s Designer Baby Patent

    Check out blogger Dov Fox‘s new op-ed over at HuffPo discussing 23andMe’s Designer Baby Patent.  Here’s a quick taste:  Even if 23andMe doesn’t bring its donor selection technique to market, there’s still reason to resist granting…

    Fox on 23andMe’s Designer Baby Patent

  • Data Privacy

    Dov Fox on Genetics and “The End of Family Secrets”

    Bill of Health blogger Dov Fox was featured in a recent National Geographic article on genetics and genealogy. Dov Fox, an assistant professor of law at the University of San Diego who specializes in genetic and…

    Dov Fox on Genetics and “The End of Family Secrets”

  • Genetics & Genomics

    Does Individuality Save Eugenics?

    By Dov Fox So asks medical historian Nathaniel Comfort in today’s Scientific America, echoing Ross Douthat’s New York Times inquiry into Eugenics, Past and Future. Comfort and Douthat are skeptical of the view, articulated by an emerging class of academics, that…

    Does Individuality Save Eugenics?

  • Criminal Law

    Dov Fox on the Future of Genetic Privacy

    Bill of Health contributor Dov Fox has a new op-ed at the Huffington Post on “junk” DNA and the future of genetic privacy in the aftermath of the Supreme Court’s ruling, in Maryland v. King, that police…

    Dov Fox on the Future of Genetic Privacy

  • Genetics & Genomics

    Parenthood Bill for Known Donors in California

    By Dov Fox Naomi Cahn and June Carbone have a timely and thoughtful new op-ed in tomorrow’s L.A. Times that considers the evolving social and genetic dimensions of legal parenthood in the context of assisted reproduction. When many of…

    Parenthood Bill for Known Donors in California

  • FDA

    End the Ban on Blood Donation by Gay Men

    By Dov Fox 86 members of the U.S. Congress have requested an end to the federal policy that prevents men who have had sex with men from giving blood. Advances in blood screening technology have…

    End the Ban on Blood Donation by Gay Men

  • Criminal Law

    Fox discussed in The Atlantic article on Brain Imaging and the Right to Silence

    A new article in The Atlantic, “Could the Government Get a Search Warrant for Your Thoughts?: Why remain silent if they can just read your mind?“, cites Bill of Health blogger Dov Fox’s research on brain…

    Fox discussed in The Atlantic article on Brain Imaging and the Right to Silence