Stetson University College of Law Professor and 2004-2005 US-China Fulbright Lecturer Stephen M. Everhart teaches and lectures in China and the US in the areas of evidence, clinical legal education, civil/criminal/arbitration advocacy, legal/judicial ethics, and comparative US/China law and practice. As a Fulbright Professor, he spent the 2004-2005 academic year in China and lectured to and/or trained Chinese law students, academics, judges, lawyers, officials of the procuratorate, and/or government leaders at all of the top law schools in China in Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Macau, Shenzhen, Wuhan, Chengdu, Xiamen, Shantou, and Hainan. Professor Everhart helped Stetson become the number one law school in the United States in the teaching of trial advocacy. He has run Stetson's civil and criminal legal practice clinics, is a published author, and he is the recipient of Stetson's Homer and Dolly Hand Prize for outstanding faculty scholarship. He has also taught at Temple Law School in Philadelphia in the Tsinghua-Temple China LLM program where he taught lawyers, judges, police officers, law professors, and prosecutors from the Peoples Republic of China (P.R.C.) and he has also trained English Barristers. Professor Everhart is a former prosecutor and criminal defense lawyer (where he handled death penalty cases) and he practiced law in his own firm, Blews & Everhart, with Bill Blews, the former President of The Florida Bar and the Academy of Florida Trial Lawyers, in a high stakes Plaintiff's trial firm handling medical malpractice, products liability, and other high end litigation. He was also appointed by the Governor of the State of Florida to the Bench as a Judge of Industrial Claims where he presided over the administrative dispute resolution of worker's compensation cases. He is also the former chair of the Criminal Law Section and the Criminal Procedure Rules Committee of the Florida Bar (a committee that works directly with the Florida Supreme Court in Rule making proceedings), and he regularly trains practicing prosecutors and public defenders for the Florida Bar. He is a member of the Tampa Bay Chinese Chamber of Commerce and he is a founding member of the Tampa Bay Asian-American Bar Association. He has a degree in Asian Studies, been trained in Buddhist Monasterys and as a Martial Artist, and is married to Hanling, a Chinese educator/business-woman, from Wuhan City, Hubei Province, P.R.C.

Professor Everhart writes and lectures on the following topics:

Arbitration Advocacy: Learning by Doing
The Pros and Cons of the American Adversarial Dispute Resolution System
How Lawyers Can Make a Difference in a Dispute Resolution System
Plea Bargaining in America: Skewing a Skewed System
Sino-American Economic Relations and Their Effects on Chinese and American
Legal, Clinical, and Professional Education
China's Move to the Rule of Law: Answering Her Critics and Moving On Comparing and Contrasting Practical Legal Education in China and the World
Comparing and Contrasting China's Legal System with Western Legal Systems
China, WTO, Transparency, and Independent Dispute Resolution
The Past, Present and Future of Clinical Legal Education in China





Modern Trial Advocacy Chapter 1 - Trial Basics Chapter 2 - Case Analysis and Storytelling





Images from China

Pictures from Professor Everhart and Temple's China LLM program





My 2004-2005 Fulbright Year in China






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