Nathan S. Chapman writes and teaches about constitutional law, especially constitutional rights, and law and religion. Most recently, he is the author, with Michael W. McConnell, of Agreeing to Disagree: How the Establishment Clause Promotes Religious Pluralism and Protects Freedom of Conscience (OUP, 2023). Chapman also regularly teaches Law and Ethics of Lawyering and has served for nearly a decade on the Georgia Chief Justice’s Commission on Professionalism. He is a McDonald Distinguished Senior Fellow in Law and Religion (Emory Center for the Study of Law and Religion) and a Nootbaar Fellow in Law and Religion (Pepperdine School of Law). He is currently studying the conceptual and theological underpinnings of disestablishment of religion across the Anglophone world from 1776 to 1832. His scholarship on constitutional law has been cited in numerous U.S. Supreme Court opinions.

Chapman holds degrees from Duke University and Belmont University. He clerked for Judge Gerald B. Tjoflat of U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, practiced at WilmerHale in Washington, D.C., and served as the executive director of the Stanford Constitutional Law Center. He joined the University of Georgia School of Law faculty in 2013. He currently serves as the law school’s associate dean for faculty development and holds the Cleveland Distinguished Chair of Law.