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Fox Debuts Book on Law and Fertility Industry Professor Dov Fox published Donor 9623: One man. 36 kids. The biggest hoax in reproductive history (Audible Original, 2020). Hailed as a “tour de force of investigative reporting,” this original eight-part series about the law and ethics of the billion-dollar fertility industry has been nominated for a Peabody Award and a Pulitzer Prize for audio journalism. Fox’s previous book—Birth Rights and Wrongs: From left: Miranda Perry Fleischer, Jean Ramirez and Mary Jo Wiggins.
How Medicine and Technology Are Remaking Reproduction and the Law (Oxford University Press, 2019)—now has scholarly reviews appearing in the Columbia Law Review and other journals, including an
FLEISCHER, RAMIREZ AND WIGGINS RECEIVE USD HONORS AND PROFESSORSHIPS
online symposium of the Boston University Law Review dedicated to reviews of the book. Fox, who received the 2020 Thorsnes Prize for Excellence in
→ Among the law professors selected as recipients of the 2020-2021 USD faculty awards are Miranda Perry Fleischer, who was named University Professor; Jean Ramirez, named Class of 1975 Endowed Professor; and Mary Jo Wiggins, who was named a Herzog Endowed Scholar. The University Professor award is the highest academic honor bestowed university-wide at USD and recognizes outstanding scholarly achievements in teaching and research. The Class of 1975 Endowed Professorship, created by the class as its 25-year reunion gift to the law school, recognizes meritorious teaching, leadership and academic work of a law school professor. The Herzog Endowed Scholar award recognizes the meritorious teaching and scholarly productivity of a USD School of Law professor. 32
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Teaching, serves as the director of the Center for Health Law Policy and Bioethics. In this capacity, he oversees the Covid-19 Summer Fellowship initiative, which is making substantive contributions on controversies from face-mask mandates and reopening liabilities to public health measures that care for people in abusive homes, detention centers and homeless shelters.
