The University of San Diego School of Law celebrates Herzog Research Professor of Law Dov Fox on being named a 2026 John Simon Guggenheim Fellow. He joins leading scholars and creators across every discipline and art form, selected from nearly 5,000 applicants for the 101st class of Guggenheim Fellows. Fox is one of just three awardees in the field of law.
His award will support Fox in creating a long-form documentary that examines pressing challenges in end-of-life care, including its purposes, boundaries, and criminalization. His project will explore how we think about a good death and a bad one, in law and in life, through the lens of legal conflicts amid the opioid crisis and the crackdown.
Fox is an elected member of the American Law Institute and Founding Director of USD’s Center for Health Law Policy & Bioethics. His recent books include “The Conscience of Care: Navigating Health in the Culture Wars” (Harvard University Press, 2025) and “Birth Rights and Wrongs: How Medicine and Technology are Remaking Reproduction and the Law” (Oxford University Press, 2019). His multiseason audio series “Donor 9623” was named Audible’s #1 podcast and nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in investigative journalism.
Fox is the author of more than 100 widely cited articles across top journals in law (e.g., Harvard Law Review, Yale Law Journal), science (e.g., Nature, Science), 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), as well as scores of short essays, book chapters, and op-eds (e.g., New York Times, Wall Street Journal).
His research frequently appears in popular magazines (e.g., Newsweek, The Economist), radio outlets (e.g., CNN, NPR), major podcasts (e.g., Armchair Expert, Criminal), and television programs (e.g., The Today Show, Good Morning America).
