James G. Hodge, Jr., JD, LLM, is the Peter Kiewit Foundation Professor of Law and Director of the nationally-ranked Center for Public Health Law & Policy at the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, Arizona State University. Through scholarship, teaching, and projects, he delves into multiple areas of health law, public health law, global health law, ethics, and human rights.

Professor Hodge has published more than 300 articles in journals of law, medicine, public health and bioethics; 2 books in public health law; 25+ book chapters; dozens of reports; and guest edited 4 symposium issues in the Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, Jurimetrics, and the Annals of Health Law. He is listed among the Top 20 Most-Cited Health Law Scholars in Web of Science (2013-2017) and is ranked above the top 1% of all downloaded authors internationally in the Social Science Research Network (SSRN).

As past President of the Public Health Law Association and Board of the American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics (ASLME), Professor Hodge co-chaired national public health law conferences in 2010 and 2014 and twice hosted ASLME’s Health Law Professors Conference (2012, 2022). In 2017, he co-chaired California’s Public Health Law Summit in Sacramento. From 2010-2023, Professor Hodge also served as Director, Western Region Office of the Network for Public Health Law.  

Professor Hodge received the 2006 Henrik L. Blum Award for Excellence in Health Policy from the American Public Health Association; the 2009 Outstanding Faculty Award from the Department of Health Policy & Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health; and the 2014 Distinguished Alumni Award from the College of Charleston Honors Program. He has drafted with others several model public health laws including the Model State Public Health Information Privacy Act, Model State Emergency Health Powers Act, Model State Public Health Act, Uniform Emergency Volunteer Health Practitioners Act, and the Model State Indoor Air Quality Act via the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security.

Professor Hodge has secured over $14.0 million in external funds for diverse scholarly and applied projects, including extensive work in emergency legal and ethical preparedness, health information privacy, and vaccinations. His work on these and other topics has appeared or been cited in major media including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, USA Today, NPR, AP, U.S. News & World Report, Time, Newsweek, Forbes, Atlantic, NBC News, CNN, Politico, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Guardian, and Bloomberg News, among many others. He has published in multiple periodicals including Science, JAMA, NEJM, and AJPH, as well as law journals at Harvard, NYU, Duke, Michigan, Georgetown, Notre Dame, Minnesota, and ASU.

He has served on several expert committees of the National Academies of Science, Engineering & Medicine and Centers for Disease Control & Prevention, and as an editorial board member of the Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, Health Security and Journal of Disaster Medicine & Public Health Preparedness. He has lectured extensively nationally and internationally including in Sydney, Toronto, Barcelona, Geneva, and Dublin. Previously he was Professor, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and on the core faculty at the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics.