Background

Jacqueline Fox is a professor of law at the Joseph F. Rice School of Law at the University of South Carolina.  She received her JD and LLM from Georgetown University, was a postdoctoral Greenwall Fellow at Johns Hopkins and Georgetown Universities, and a Donaghue Visiting Scholar in Research Ethics at Yale University. She recently completed a Fulbright Global Scholar fellowship at the Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics at Oxford University and Melbourne Law School.  Her research interests focus on the intersection of the law and policy of healthcare financing mechanisms and bioethics. Her current project is a study of methods used to calculate the amount of money spent on healthcare and how these methods can do harm and good.

Scholarship

• Unmasking the Financialization of Healthcare, Am. J. L. & Med. (2025).
• Medicare Drug Price Negotiations: A Blueprint for Ethical Pricing Across the Healthcare System, 19 FIU L. Rev. 71 (2025).
• The Dental Health of Rural Elderly People and Its Social Justice Implications, 124 W. Va. L. Rev. 853 (2022).
• The Lived Experience of Health Insurance: An Analysis and Proposal for Reform, 14 Northeastern U. L. Rev. 429 (2022).
• The Private Insurance Market: Not Very Big and Not Insuring Much, Either, 46 J. L. Med. & Ethics 877 (2019).
• Zika and the Failure to Act Under the Police Power, 49 Conn. L. Rev. 1211 (2017).
• Healthism, Intersectionality, and Health Insurance: The Compound Problems of Healthist Discrimination, 18 Marq. Benefits & Soc. Welfare L. Rev. 279 (2017).
• Reforming Healthcare Reform, 50 U. Rich. L. Rev. 557 (2016).
• Review of Jonathan Herring, Caring and the Law, 35 J. Legal Med. 337 (2014).
• Death Panels: A Defense of the Independent Payment Advisory Board, 66 Admin. L. Rev. 131 (2014) (symposium presentation).
• The Epidemic of Children’s Dental Diseases: Putting Teeth into the Law, 11 Yale J. Health Pol'y L. & Ethics 223 (2011).
• The Hidden Role of Trust: Medicare Decisions, Transparency, and Public Trust, 79 U. Cin. L. Rev. 1 (2010).
• Reinvigorating the Concept of Benefit: The Failure of Drug Company–Sponsored Research on Human Subjects, 38 Seton Hall L. Rev. 605 (2008).
• Medicare Should, but Cannot, Consider Cost: Legal Impediments to Sound Policy, 53 Buff. L. Rev. 577 (2005).

Education

• LL.M., Georgetown University Law Center
• J.D., Georgetown University Law Center
• B.A., Sarah Lawrence College

Teaching

• Torts (LAWS 529)
• Public Health Law (LAWS 672)
• Health Law & Policy (LAWS 676)
• Bioethics Seminar (LAWS 721)