Courses Offered:

Trial Practice

Professional Biographical Information:

Stephen James Harper became an adjunct professor at the University of Georgia School of Law in 1998 and teaches in the area of trial practice.  He is presently director of programs at the Institute of Continuing Legal Education in Georgia.

A retired U.S. Army colonel, Harper brings with him extensive trial litigation experience he gained by participating in over 1,000 criminal trials as prosecutor, defense counsel and judge.  He was the senior and managing partner for several large military law offices and has taught constitutional law at West Point.  In addition, he has served as an adjunct professor at the University of Maryland and Troy State University.

He is admitted to practice as attorney and counselor before the U.S. Supreme Court.  He is also a member of the Association of Continuing Legal Education Administrators and the American, Georgia and Alabama bar associations

Harper received his Juris Doctor from the University of Alabama in 1974 and his bachelor’s degree from the United States Military Academy in 1968.  He also completed the Graduate Law Program at the U.S. Army Judge Advocate General’s School, University of Virginia, in 1978.

His wife of over 30 years is Sherry Garrett Harper. They have two children, Rachel Harper Fox, a publicist for the TV news show Extra,  and James Garrett Harper, M.D., a surgical resident at the Medical College of Georgia.