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Nathan B. Oman

Nathan B. Oman is the Rita Ann Rollins Professor of Law at William & Mary Law School, where he teaches classes on contracts, business law, and contemporary legal theory. He has published numerous articles on Latter-day Saint legal history in Washington University Law Review, Iowa Law Review, Brigham Young University Law Review, Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, and other journals. He is currently working on a book examining legal thought and experience in the Latter-day Saint tradition. He is the editor, with Samuel Brunson, of Reapproaching Zion: New Essays in Mormon Social Thought (Salt Lake City: By Common Consent Press, 2020). He is also the author or editor of three books and numerous articles and book chapters dealing with contract law and the philosophy of law. He was educated at Brigham Young University and Harvard Law School.