James Hodge
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Phone: 480-727-8576
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111 E Taylor St MC 9520 Phoenix, AZ 85004
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Mail code: 9520Campus: Dtphx
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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. From 2010-2023, he served as the founding director of the Western Region Office of the Network for Public Health Law funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF). Over this 13 year period, the Western Region Office assisted public health lawyers, officials, practitioners, students, and others nationally on over 5,400 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 above 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, Uniform Emergency Volunteer Health Practitioners Act, and the Model State Indoor Air Quality Act.
Professor Hodge is a national expert on emergency legal preparedness, crisis standards of care, 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, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 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.
- LL.M. Georgetown University Law Center 1997
- J.D. Salmon P. Chase College of Law 1993
- B.S. College of Charleston 1989
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:
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Emergency legal and ethical preparedness;
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Legal support for the use of health impact assessments;
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Legal frameworks underlying the use of volunteer health professionals in emergencies;
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Compilation, study, and analysis of state genetics laws and policies;
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Historical and legal bases underlying school vaccination programs; and
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International tobacco laws and policies.
- Hodge,James*, Hodge,James*. Supporting the Western Region of the Network for Public Health Law 2015 - 2017. RWJF(5/1/2015 - 4/30/2017).
- Hodge,James*. Host site for RWJF Public Health Law New Attorney Fellow Program. (8/15/2012 - 9/14/2013).
- Hodge,James*. Health Impact Project: Conduct of Legal Review Concerning the Use of Health Impact Assessment in Non-health Sectors. (11/2/2010 - 5/1/2012).
- Hodge,James*. Public Health Preparedness Law Training Curriculum and Table Top Exercise. NACCHO(11/1/2010 - 5/31/2011).
- Hodge,James*. Building the Field of Public Health Law. RWJF(7/20/2010 - 3/14/2013).
- Lant,Timothy W*, Basile,George Matthew, Hodge,James, Jehn,Megan L, Kim,Yushim, Lynk,Myles V, Marchant,Gary E. Building evidence for legal decision-making in real time: Legal triage during declared emergencies. RWJF(12/1/2009 - 5/31/2011).
- Hodge,James*. Subcontract: Centers for Law and Public Health: A Collaborative at Jonhs Hopkins and Goergetown. Johns Hopkins Univ-Bloomberg(10/1/2009 - 9/30/2010).
- Hodge,James*. Subcontract:PERRC Project 4: Legal and Ethical Assessment of Mental and Behavioral Health During Emergencies. JOHNS HOPKINS UNIV(9/30/2009 - 9/29/2012).
- Hodge,James*. Expanding the Ability of Practitioners and Scholars to Assess Law as a Tool to Improve Public Health. CITY UNIV OF NEW YORK(8/16/2009 - 2/28/2010).
Courses
2025 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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LAW 781 | Independent Study |
LAW 651 | Public Health Law |
2024 Fall
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LAW 781 | Independent Study |
LAW 650 | Health Law |
HON 494 | Special Topics |
2024 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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LAW 781 | Independent Study |
LAW 651 | Public Health Law |
HON 494 | Special Topics |
2023 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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LAW 781 | Independent Study |
2023 Summer
Course Number | Course Title |
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LAW 781 | Independent Study |
2023 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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LAW 781 | Independent Study |
LAW 651 | Public Health Law |
HON 494 | Special Topics |
2022 Fall
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LAW 781 | Independent Study |
LAW 650 | Health Law |
HON 494 | Special Topics |
2022 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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LAW 781 | Independent Study |
LAW 651 | Public Health Law |
HON 494 | Special Topics |
2021 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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LAW 781 | Independent Study |
LAW 650 | Health Law |
HON 494 | Special Topics |
2021 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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LAW 781 | Independent Study |
LAW 651 | Public Health Law |
2020 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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LAW 781 | Independent Study |
LAW 650 | Health Law |
HON 494 | Special Topics |
2020 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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LAW 781 | Independent Study |
LAW 651 | Public Health Law |
2019 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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LAW 781 | Independent Study |
SDO 592 | Research |
LAW 650 | Health Law |
HON 494 | Special Topics |
- 2014 Distinguished Alumni Award from the College of Charleston (SC) Honors Program
- 2009 Outstanding Faculty Award from the Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
- 2006 Henrik L. Blum Award for Excellence in Health Policy from the American Public Health Association
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.