James G. Hodge, Jr., JD, LLM, is the Peter Kiewit Foundation Professor of Law at the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law and Director of the Center for Public Health Law and Policy at Arizona State University. Through scholarship, teaching, and applied projects, Professor Hodge delves into multiple areas of health law, public health law, global health law, ethics, and human rights. Since 2010, he has served as director of the Western Region Office of the Network for Public Health Law, one of 5 centers nationally funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF). Since its inception, the office has assisted public health lawyers, officials, practitioners, students, and others across 11 states and nationally on over 4,950 claims.
Professor Hodge is a prolific scholar, having published more than 275 articles in journals of law, medicine, public health and bioethics; 2 books in public health law; 25 book chapters; and guest edited four symposium issues in the Journal of Law, Medicine, and Ethics, Jurimetrics, and the Annals of Health Law. He is regularly ranked among the top 1% of cited authors in the Social Science Research Network (SSRN).
With others, he has drafted several model public health laws including the Model State Public Health Information Privacy Act, Model State Emergency Health Powers Act, Turning Point Model State Public Health Act, and Uniform Emergency Volunteer Health Practitioners Act.
Professor Hodge is a national expert on emergency legal preparedness, obesity laws and policies, vaccination laws, and public health information privacy. His work on these and other topics has been cited in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, USA Today, U.S. News and World Report, Time, Newsweek, The Atlantic, National Law Journal, NBC News, Baltimore Sun, Dallas Morning News, and additional regional newspapers, social media cites, and journals including Science, JAMA, New England Journal of Medicine, The Lancet - Infectious Diseases, American Journal of Public Health, and Public Health Reports.
Professor Hodge regularly publishes a column on public health law for the Journal of Law, Medicine, and Ethics. He advises numerous federal, state, and local governments on public health law and policy issues and has lectured extensively on diverse topics in international locations including Sydney, Toronto, Barcelona, Geneva, and Dublin.
Before joining the College of Law in 2009, he was professor, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health; adjunct professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center; and a core faculty member at the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics.
Over his academic career, Professor Hodge has secured (with others) over $10 million in external funds for diverse scholarly and applied projects, including extensive work on:
Emergency legal and ethical preparedness;
Legal support for the use of health impact assessments;
Legal frameworks underlying the use of volunteer health professionals in emergencies;
Compilation, study, and analysis of state genetics laws and policies;
Historical and legal bases underlying school vaccination programs; and
International tobacco laws and policies.
Spring 2022 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
HON 494 | Special Topics |
LAW 651 | Public Health Law |
LAW 781 | Independent Study |
Fall 2021 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
HON 494 | Special Topics |
LAW 650 | Health Law |
LAW 781 | Independent Study |
Spring 2021 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
LAW 651 | Public Health Law |
LAW 781 | Independent Study |
Fall 2020 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
HON 494 | Special Topics |
LAW 650 | Health Law |
LAW 781 | Independent Study |
Spring 2020 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
LAW 651 | Public Health Law |
LAW 781 | Independent Study |
Fall 2019 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
HON 494 | Special Topics |
SDO 592 | Research |
LAW 650 | Health Law |
LAW 781 | Independent Study |
Spring 2019 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
LAW 651 | Public Health Law |
LAW 781 | Independent Study |
Fall 2018 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
SDO 592 | Research |
LAW 650 | Health Law |
LAW 781 | Independent Study |
Spring 2018 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
LAW 650 | Health Law |
LAW 781 | Independent Study |
He has served on several expert committees of the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine, Institute of Medicine, as well as CDC’s Advisory Committee on Policy, and is an editorial board member of the UPMC’s journal, Health Security, and the Journal of Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness.
As past-president of the Public Health Law Association and the Board of the American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics (ASLME), Professor Hodge co-chaired the national public health law conference sponsored by RWJF in 2010 and 2014. He also hosted ASLME’s Health Law Professors Conference at ASU in June 2012 (and is scheduled to host again in 2021). With colleagues at the California Department of Public Health, he co-chaired the Public Health Law Summit – Western Region in Sacramento, CA in 2017.