9/26/2025 CSU|LAW “Weaponizing Public Health” Program

photo of James HodgeOn Friday, September 26, 2025, CSU|LAW is presenting Weaponizing Public Health: The Role of Law and Policy in Curbing Gun Violence.  The program aims to provide a glimpse into the national landscape involving gun violence through the lens of public health and recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions impacting this issue, as well as address the City of Cleveland’s efforts to lessen and eliminate gun violence through regulations on the local level.  The Keynote speaker will be James G. Hodge, Jr., JD, LLM, the Peter Kiewit Foundation Professor of Law and Director of the Center for Public Health Law and Policy at Arizona State University.  The program will also provide perspectives on gun violence from health professionals, who are involved in treating both gun violence victims and individuals engaged in committing this violence or potentially likely to commit these acts of violence.  The Weaponizing Public Health: The Role of Law and Policy in Curbing Gun Violence program is free, and there is a Zoom registration option.  The program offers 3.75 CLE credit hours.