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Nathan B. Oman
Assistant Professor of Law
Degrees: J.D., Harvard; B.A., Brigham Young University
Email: [[nboman]]
Office phone: (757) 221-3919
Office location: Room 236C
Personal web page: here
Email: [[nboman]]
Office phone: (757) 221-3919
Office location: Room 236C
Personal web page: here
Areas of Specialization
Contract Law; Economic Analysis of Law; Jurisprudence; Law and Religion; Legal History
Currently Teaching
Secured Transactions; Special Topics in Contract Law Seminar
Representative Professional Activities and Achievements
Joined the faculty in 2006. He earned his J.D., cum laude, from Harvard Law School, where he served on the Articles Committee of the Harvard Law Review and as an editor of the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy. He graduated from Brigham Young University, where he was a Benson Scholar, and, prior to law school, worked on the staff of Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky. After law school, he clerked for the Honorable Morris Shepard Arnold of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit and worked as a litigation associate in the Washington, DC office of Sidley Austin, LLP.
Scholarly Publications
Articles
- Specific Performance and the Thirteenth Amendment, 93 Minn. L. Rev. 2020 (2009).
- A Pragmatic Defense of Contract Law, 98 Geo. L.J. ___ (forthcoming 2009).
- Preaching to the Court House and Judging in the Temple, 2009 BYU L. Rev. 157.
- The Failure of Economic Interpretations of the Law of Contact Damages, 64 Wash. & Lee L. Rev. 829 (2007).
- Corporations and Autonomy Theories of Contract: A Critique of the New Lex Mercatoria, 83 Denv. U. L. Rev. 101 (2005).
- Statutory Interpretation in Econotopia, 25 Pace L. Rev. 49 (2005).
Other
- Mormons, in Encyclopedia of the Supreme Court of the United States (David Tanenhaus et al., eds. forthcoming 2009).
- Contract Law and Morality: Introduction, 48 Wm. & Mary L. Rev. 1643 (2007).
- Shylock and Article Nine of the U.C.C., in Perspectives on the Uniform Commercial Code 106 (Douglas E. Litowitz ed., 2d ed. 2007).
- Book Review, Unity and Pluralism in Contract Law, 103 Mich. L. Rev. 1483 (2005) (reviewing Stephen Smith, Contract Theory).
- Note, Wagering on Religious Freedom, 116 Harv. L. Rev. 946 (2003).
- Case Comment, Washington v. Heckel, 24 P.3d 404 (Wash. 2001), cert. denied, 70 U.S.L.W. 3193 (U.S. Oct. 29, 2001) (No. 01-469), 115 Harv. L. Rev. 931 (2002).
- Case Comment, Republican Party of Minnesota v. White, 122 S. Ct. 2528 (2002), 116 Harv. L. Rev. 272 (2002).
- Book Review, Story of a Forgotten Battle, 2002 BYU L. Rev. 745 (reviewing Sarah Barringer Gordon, The Mormon Question: Polygamy and Constitutional Conflict in Nineteenth Century America).
