Jason Harper

Lecturer in Law
Last Updated: September 25, 2023

Jason Harper is the founder of Harper Conflict Resolution, LLC. He specializes in education and employment mediation utilizing a collaborative approach. In addition, he is an alternative dispute resolution (ADR) consultant, conflict management coach, adjunct professor and trainer.

Most notably, Harper is the ADR consultant for the Los Angeles County Office of Education, providing mediation and conflict resolution services to 18 school districts and 27 charter schools. He has also provided mediation and conflict resolution trainings for the Western Justice Center and the International Visitors Council, training adults from more than 20 different countries. He has been recognized by the California State Senate and the U.S. Congress for his mediation trainings.

Harper was the 2017 president of the Southern California Mediation Association (SCMA) and serves on the board of directors for Kids Managing Conflict, the SCMA Education Foundation. His passion is teaching mediation and conflict resolution at the academic and corporate level as well as assisting in the creation and coordination of peer mediation programs. He received his master’s degree in negotiation, conflict resolution, and peacebuilding from California State University, Dominguez Hills, and his mediation training from Loyola Law School in Los Angeles.