2024 Inaugural Tillman Award

Submissions for the 2024 Tillman Award remain open until February 1, 2025. Send entries to me via X (formerly Twitter) @sethbtillman or send me an e-mail. First prize (in each category) will be … I buy the first round at The Brazen Head (Dublin, established circa 1198). Second prize … you buy the first round ….

 

Entry 1: Professor Rick Hasen (after the U.S. Supreme Court denied Professor Blackman, acting as my attorney, argument time to argue the position in my amicus brief):

 

 

 

Entry 2: Professor Deep Gulasekaram with Professor Rick Hasen:

 

 

 

Entry 3: James Hohmann, Interview, ‘Supreme Court hears oral arguments in Trump ballot access case—2/8,’ Washington Post (Feb. 8, 2024), <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULjkYY9xTMg> (01:04:20ff):

 

Hilariously, this is an argument that was actually pushed by this obscure assistant professor in Ireland at a law school. His name is Seth Tillman. And he has been writing these law review articles for decades. He was dismissed as a crackpot. People made fun of him.

 

Entry 4: Alastair Campbell and Rory Stewart, Podcast, ‘The Killing of Alexei Navalny,’ The Rest Is Politics (Feb. 21, 2024), <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jL2S5ri1HRs> (at 41:58–44:10):

 

There has been some really interesting coverage particularly in the New York Times of this amazing eccentric introverted lawyer, who is a junior lecturer* at a university in Ireland, who has become the key to the Trump legal campaign … this man called Seth Barrett Tillman … he looks like Robert Sapolski, … a big kind of beard …. this man has been saying for 15 years that the President cannot be referred to as an officer, and this was a really marginal view and everyone thought it was completely eccentric and nobody cared … he is what is called a “constitutional fundamentalist”.

Entry 5: Professor Akhil Amar, Podcast, ‘An Officer and a President,’ Amarica’s Constitution (Sept. 13, 2023), <https://amaricasconstitution.podbean.com/e/an-officer-and-a-president/> (01:26:15ff):

But what I’m saying is that he [Attorney General Mukasey] has written no article that I know of in which he elaborates all this. I know where it’s coming from. It’s coming from Seth Barrett Tillman . . . . 

Entry 6: Judge Luttig (4th Cir.) (retired) (follow the link for greater clarity):

 

 

*FYI: I have been an associate professor since 2021. Really!—It is true!!

 

Seth

 

Seth Barrett Tillman, ‘2024 Inaugural Tillman Award,’ New Reform Club (Dec. 24, 2024, 5:23 AM), <https://reformclub.blogspot.com/2024/12/2024-inaugural-anti-tillman-award.html>; 

See also: Josh Blackman & Seth Barrett Tillman, ‘Professor Akhil Amar, On His Podcast, Responds to Attorney General Mukasey and the Tillman-Blackman Position,’ Reason—Volokh Conspiracy (Sept. 14, 2023, 1:08 AM), <https://tinyurl.com/3zkybsk4>;

See also: Seth Barrett Tillman, ‘Re: Application for a Lateral Position at Yale Law School’ (Sept. 14, 2023, posted: Dec. 24, 2024), <https://ssrn.com/abstract=5070417>;