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. He teaches health economics, health policy, and cybersecurity for healthcare executives. He is a member of HAP’s Undergraduate Faculty Committee and HAP’s Masters of Health Administration Committee, and serves as HAP’s representative to the College of Public Health Faculty Council.

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, particularly Medicare fraud and antitrust (competition) issues. 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.

Prof. Zane received his BA in Economic History from Pomona College and his JD from New York University School of Law. He is a former Fellow of the Thomas J. Watson Foundation. He clerked for Circuit Judge Morris S. Arnold of U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. He holds a Virginia Postgraduate Professional Teaching License with endorsements in English and Social Studies. His prior teaching experience includes teaching at Fairfax County Public Schools, Fusion Academy, and Marymount University.

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