Nathan S. Chapman

Pope F. Brock Associate Professor in Professional Responsibility, University of Georgia School of Law

Nathan S. Chapman teaches and writes in constitutional law, religious liberty and ethics. The 2021 graduating class selected him to be a faculty marshal and the 2018 graduating class awarded him the C. Ronald Ellington Award for Excellence in Teaching. He is a McDonald Distinguished Fellow of Law and Religion at the Emory Center for Law and Religion and a Nootbaar Fellow in Law and Religion at Pepperdine School of Law.

Chapman is the author, with Michael W. McConnell, of a forthcoming volume from the Oxford University Press titled Agreeing to Disagree: How the Establishment Clause Promotes Religious Pluralism and Protects Freedom of Conscience. His scholarship focuses on the historical and theoretical underpinnings of constitutional law, especially the law of religious liberty and due process. He has also written several essays on Christianity and the law.

Chapman holds degrees in law and theology from Duke University. He litigated in the Washington, D.C., office of WilmerHale and clerked for Judge Gerald Bard Tjoflat of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit.

 


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