Christopher Hodges OBE MA (Oxon) PhD (KCL) FRSA is Emeritus Professor of Justice Systems at Oxford University and a former Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford.
His expertise is regulatory and dispute resolution systems, on which he advises governments, regulators, judiciary, ombudsmen, businesses and consumer groups around the globe.
He is Chair of the Regulatory Horizons Council, which advises UK Government on regulation of innovative science and technologies; and is a founding Director of the International Network for Delivery of Regulation (INDR). He is also: Chair of the Government’s Advisory Board on compensation schemes for Post Office staff arising from the Horizon IT disaster; Chair of the Housing and Property Redress Group, which aims to modernise the dispute resolution system in England and Wales; and a Member of the Advisory Board on the creation of a single post-Grenfell construction regulator (MHCLG).
He has recently been: a member of the Civil Justice Council’s Working Group on Third Party Litigation Funding; and a member of the Government’s Regulation of Property Agents Committee and of the Commonhold Council.
His many books include Regulation That Works (2026), Outcome-Based Cooperation in Communities, Organisations, Regulation and Dispute Resolution (2023), Ethical Business Practice and Regulation (with Ruth Steinholtz 2017); Law and Corporate Behaviour (2015); Delivering Dispute Resolution (2019); Regulatory Delivery (with Graham Russell, 2019).
He has held a Professorship at Erasmus University, Rotterdam, and Honorary/Visiting Chairs at the China University of Political Science and Law, Beijing; Wuhan University; KU Leuven University; and ANU Canberra; and he has been a Fellow of the European Law Institute.