Nathan B. Oman

Assistant Professor of Law

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Degrees

J.D., Harvard
B.A., Brigham Young University

Areas of Specialization

Contracts; Economic Analysis of Law; Jurisprudence; Law and Religion; Legal History.

Teaching This Coming Year (2008-2009)

Contracts, Secured Transactions, Special Topics in Contract Law Seminar

Representative Professional Activities & 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.

Professor Oman's publications

Articles

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).
Unity and Pluralism in Contract Law, 103 Mich. L. Rev. 1483 (2005).
Note, Wagering on Religious Freedom, 116 Harv. L. Rev. 946 (2003).

Other

Contract Law and Morality: Introduction, 48 Wm. & Mary L. Rev. 1643 (2007).
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 The Mormon Question: Polygamy and Constitutional Conflict in Nineteenth Century America).

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