Profile: H Stephen Harris Jr

Competition

Biography: Competition

H Stephen Harris Jr has litigated numerous complex cases in federal courts throughout the United States, including the defence of numerous publicly held corporations in civil and criminal antitrust matters, including class actions and multidistrict litigation.

Mr Harris has also represented numerous US and non-US companies before antitrust agencies of the US and other jurisdictions, including the European Commission's DG Comp, the Japan Fair Trade Commission and the antitrust agencies of Brazil. Mr Harris has arbitrated complex commercial disputes under the rules of the International Chamber of Commerce, the Japan Commercial Arbitration Association and the American Arbitration Association.

Mr Harris has been elected a life fellow of the American Bar Foundation. He currently serves as the international officer of the American Bar Association's section of antitrust law and a member of the antitrust committee of the International Bar Association. He is co-author and editor-in-chief of the two-volume treatise Competition Laws Outside the United States, published by the ABA, and author of the US chapter in International Agency & Distribution Law, published by the Center for International Law. Mr Harris has been selected for listing in The International Who's Who of Competition Lawyers (antitrust), The Best Lawyers in America (litigation and antitrust), and Chambers USA: America's Leading Business Lawyers (antitrust) .

Mr Harris received a JD from Columbia University School of Law in 1982, where he was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar and certified with honours by the Parker School of Foreign and Comparative Law. Mr Harris received an AB magna cum laude from Cornell University in 1977, where he was a Cornell University college scholar of the College of Arts & Sciences. Mr Harris is a member of the bars of the District of Columbia, Georgia, and New York and is admitted to practise before the United States Supreme Court, the United States Courts of Appeal for the District of Columbia, Second, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Ninth, and Eleventh Federal Circuits, and numerous US district courts.