Faculty

Faculty & Research

Hodge, Samuel J.D.

  • Professor and Chair of the Legal Studies Department, Temple University, USA
  • J.D., Law School, Temple University, USA

Hodge has established himself as one of the most innovative, prolific and highly decorated instructors in the university's history. He has taught more than 20,000 students, with one class of at least 400 students on his docket every semester since 1988. He directs Fox's Center for Innovation in Teaching and Learning. He has won more than a dozen teaching awards — including the Great Teacher Award, the university’s highest, in 1990. His methods have brought coverage in the New York Times ("Off-the-wall style of teaching gets their attention," March 4, 1990).

Courses: 
  • International Business Law

Research Interests

Law and Anatomy .

Awards and Honors

  • Provost Award for Innovation in Teaching in the General Education Program, 2010.
  • John Topoleski Memorial Award for Outstanding Instruction, Insurance Society of Philadelphia, 2008.
  • Stauffer Alumni Award for Outstanding Faculty Service, Temple University, 2008.
  • Gold Prize Recipient of the 2005 - Innovation in Teaching Award from the MAACBA, October 25, 2005.
  • Leader in Teaching Innovation, Fox School of Business and Management, April 1, 2005.
  • Temple University’s Nominee for Teacher of the Year contest sponsored by the Carnegie Foundation (2002 and 2003).
  • Fox School of Business and Management’s Nominee for the Robert Cherry Teaching Award sponsored by Baylor University. (2002)
  • Fox School of Business and Management, Innovation in Technology Award (2002).
  • Twenty-Five Year Club, Temple University (2001).
  • Teaching Fellow in the Irwin L. Gross e-Business Institute (2000 to the present).
  • "Great Teacher Award" of Temple University (1990).
  • Distinguished Faculty Award, Golden Key National Honor Society (1990).
  • Honorary member, Golden Key National Honor Society, Temple University (1990).
  • Musser Excellence in Leadership Teaching Award (1998).
  • Andrisani - Frank Undergraduate Teaching Award. (1998).
  • Master Teacher, Academy of Legal Studies in Business (1998).
  • Exceptional Salary Adjustment Award (1998)
  • School of Business Administration's nominee for the Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching (1985)
  • Alumni Board of Managers' Distinguished Faculty Award (1983)
  • School of Business Administration's nominee for the Stauffer Award for Outstanding Faculty Service (1983)
  • Voted "Best Course Presentation" and “Best Instructor” by the School of Business Administration's Student Body (1981)
CV: 
application/pdf iconSamuel Hodge cv.pdf
Publication: 

 Most Recent

  • 2011. Anatomy for Litigators, 2/e. American Bar Institute: American Bar Association..
  • 2011. Trauma, emergency medicine, and the golden hour. The Practical Litigator 22(7): 25-38.
  • 2011. The integumentary system and its derivatives. The Practical Litigator 21(7): 43-55.
  • “A Primer on the Circulatory System,” The Practical Litigator,Vol. 21, Number 6, November 2010, pages 17- 37.
  • “Anatomy for Lawyers - The Back,” The Secrets of Defending aBack Injury Claim, Pennsylvania Bar Institute, PBI No. 2010-6484, August 2010, pages 1- 138.
  • Show Me the Pain”: Limitations and Pitfalls of Medical Imaging of the Low Back, co-author, Michigan State University Law School, Journal of Medicine and Law, Vol. XIV, Issue 1, Winter 2010, pages 129 to 161.
  • Anatomy for Litigators, 2010 Supplement, American Bar Institute - American Bar Association, 167 pages, 2010.
  • Hodgepodge of Litigation Tips,” Personal Injury Potpourri, The Dispute Resolution Institute, Chapter 12, pages 371- 416, April 2010.
  • The Back,” Medicine for Lawyers: The Most Common Injuries to the Back and Spine, Pennsylvania Bar Institute, PBI No. 2010-6118, Pages 35 to 172, April 2010.