Phillip Zane, JD

Prof. Zane began teaching healthcare law at George Mason University as adjunct faculty member in the fall of 2014. In August of 2021, he joined the faculty full-time as an assistant professor. Prof. Zane teaches in both the Health Administration and Health Informatics programs at both the graduate and undergraduate levels. His courses include health economics & policy, health policy, and privacy & cybersecurity policy. Prof. Zane’s teaching style uses games, experiments, and behavioral economics to engage students and teach important concepts. He has applied these methods to courses in economics, privacy (HIPAA), and cybersecurity.

Since August of 2024, Prof. Zane has served as the coordinator of the Undergraduate Health Administration Program. Prof. Zane has been the representative of the Department of Health Administration & Policy to the Faculty Council of College of Public Health since 2022 and has served as chair of the Faculty Council since 2023. He has also served on the University LMS Advisory Committee and the Canvas Implementation Advisory Committee.

Prof. Zane regularly serves on site visitor teams as part of the accreditation process of the Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Management Education (CAHME).

Prof. Zane practiced law for more than two decades, focusing on federal criminal and civil investigations, litigation, trials, and appeals. A significant portion of that practice was devoted to health care law, fraud, and antitrust (competition). He has served as loss prevention counsel to a major law firm, and as a compliance officer in the financial services sector. Prof. Zane’s pro bono work included representation of charities and individuals. In 2010, in recognition of his work for the nation’s largest homeless shelter, he received the Mitch Snyder Extraordinary Performance Award for Outstanding Work in the Homeless Community from the Community for Creative Non-Violence in Washington, D.C. He was the president of the Friends of Claude Moore Colonial Farm from 2014 to 2017. He currently serves as the Corporate Secretary and Compliance Officer for the Arthur F. Burns Fellowship Program.

Prof. Zane has published articles in the areas of antitrust law, criminal procedure, and game theory, and he dabbles in legal history and the history of medicine.

Research

Research Interests

• Healthcare Law

• Antitrust & Competition Law

• Law & economics

• Legal history

Publication

Zane, P.C. (2012). Skirting the constitutional question in criminal fines. LAW360, April 19, 2012.

Degrees

• JD, New York University School of Law
• BA, Pomona College in Economic History