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Wednesday, November 12, 2025

Collected Publications And Other Materials Responding In Substantial Part To My Publications

2005: Gary Lawson, Comment, Burning Down the House (and Senate): A Presentment Requirement for Legislative Subpoenas Under the Orders, Resolutions, and Votes Clause, 83 Tex. L. Rev. 1373 (2005), <http://ssrn.com/abstract=556789>; 

2006: Sanford Levinson, Comment, Assuring Continuity of Government, 4 Pierce L. Rev. 201 (2006); 4 U.N.H. L. Rev. 201 (2006), <http://ssrn.com/abstract=900607>; 

2007: Brian C. Kalt, Response, Keeping Recess Appointments in Their Place, 101 Nw. U. L. Rev. Colloquy 88–93 (2007), <http://ssrn.com/abstract=959051>, republished in 103 Nw. U. L. Rev. Colloquy 292 (2009), <https://tinyurl.com/mvchahw2>; 

2007: Brian C. Kalt, Keeping Tillman Adjournments in Their Place: A Rejoinder to Seth Barrett Tillman, 101 Nw. U. L. Rev. Colloquy 108 (2007), <http://ssrn.com/abstract=962762>, republished in 103 Nw. U. L. Rev. Colloquy 305 (2009), <https://tinyurl.com/3dz2yp76>; 

2007: Aaron-Andrew P. Bruhl, Response, Against Mix-and-Match Lawmaking, 16 Cornell J.L. & Pub. Poly 349 (2007), <http://ssrn.com/abstract=932574>; 

2008: Steven G. Calabresi, Rebuttal, Does the Incompatibility Clause Apply to the President?, in Seth Barrett Tillman & Steven G. Calabresi, Debate, The Great Divorce: The Current Understanding of Separation of Powers and the Original Meaning of the Incompatibility Clause, 157 U. Pa. L. Rev. PENNumbra 134, 141-45 (2008), <http://ssrn.com/abstract=1294671>; 

2008: Steven G. Calabresi, Closing Statement, A Term of Art or the Artful Reading of Terms?, in Seth Barrett Tillman & Steven G. Calabresi, Debate, The Great Divorce: The Current Understanding of Separation of Powers and the Original Meaning of the Incompatibility Clause, 157 U. Pa. L. Rev. PENNumbra 134, 154-59 (2008), <http://ssrn.com/abstract=1294671>; 

2008/2009: Saikrishna Bangalore Prakash, Response, Why the Incompatibility Clause Applies to the Office of the President, 4 Duke J. Const. L. & Pub. Poly 143 (2009), <http://tinyurl.com/8bs7fqq> (available on Westlaw and LexisNexis); 4 Duke J. Const. L. & Pub. Pol’y Sidebar 35 (2008), <http://ssrn.com/abstract=1557164>; 

2009: Robert F. Blomquist, Response to Geoffrey R. Stone and Seth Barrett Tillman, Beyond Historical Blushing: A Plea for Constitutional Intelligence, 2009 Cardozo L. Rev. de novo 244, <http://tinyurl.com/nqqtzld>,  <http://ssrn.com/abstract=1483893>; 

2009: Steve Sheppard, Response to Geoffrey R. Stone and Seth Barrett Tillman, What Oaths Meant to the Framers Generation: A Preliminary Sketch, 2009 Cardozo L. Rev. de novo 273, <http://ssrn.com/abstract=2188463>, <http://tinyurl.com/nzcb2dd>; 

2009: Bruce G. Peabody, Response to Geoffrey R. Stone, Seth Barrett Tillman, and Alan Brownstein, Analogize This: Partial Constitutional Text, Religion, and Maintaining Our Political Order, 2010 Cardozo L. Rev. de novo 204, <http://tinyurl.com/lom8f2x>, <http://ssrn.com/abstract=1537141>; 

2010: Jeremy D. Bailey, The Traditional View of Hamilton’s Federalist No. 77 and an Unexpected Challenge: A Response to Seth Barrett Tillman, 33 Harvard J.L. & Pub. Poly 169 (2010), <http://ssrn.com/abstract=1473276>; 

2012: Zephyr Teachout, Rebuttal, Gifts, Offices, and Corruption, 107 Nw. U. L. Rev. Colloquy 30 (2012), <http://ssrn.com/abstract=2081879>; 

2014: Zephyr Teachout, Closing Statement, Constitutional Purpose and the Anti-Corruption Principle, 108 Nw. U. L. Rev. Online 200 (2014), <http://ssrn.com/abstract=2383385>; 

2016: Zephyr Teachout, Matters of Debate—The Foreign Emoluments Clause, in The Interactive Constitution (National Constitution Center 2016), <http://tinyurl.com/hkf35q5>; 

2016: Zephyr Teachout, Room for Debate, Trump’s Foreign Business Ties May Violate the Constitution, The NY Times, Nov. 17, 2016, 5:06 PM, <http://tinyurl.com/gm5dux5>; 

2016: William Baude, Constitutional Officers: A Very Close Reading, Jotwell (July 28, 2016), <http://tinyurl.com/hnrfx8p>; 

2017: Gautham Rao & Jed Handelsman Shugerman, Presidential Revisionism, Slate (July 17, 2017, 5:42 PM), <http://tinyurl.com/y7qaabr4>; 

2017: Declarations from 2017: (i) Kaminski, (ii) Bowling, (iii) Martin, (iv) Knott, and (v) Newton. (See botttom of page for further particulars.) 

2018: Plaintiffs’ Supplemental Memorandum (Brief for Members of Congress), Senator Richard Blumenthal v. Donald J. Trump, in his official capacity as President of the United States of America, Civ. A. No. 1:17-cv-01154-EGS (D.D.C. April 30, 2018) (Sullivan, J.), ECF No. 50, 2018 WL 2042238, <Microsoft Word - Blumenthal Supplemental Brief (FINAL)>; 

2018: Erik Jensen, The Foreign Emoluments Clause, 10 Elon L. .Rev. 73 (2018), <"The Foreign Emoluments Clause" by Erik M. Jensen>;

2018: Andrew Fagal, Thomas Jefferson and the Arabian Stallion: A Research Note on the Third President and the Foreign Emoluments Clause, 1(4) Law & Hist. Review: The Docket (Dec. 2018), <https://lawandhistoryreview.org/article/thomas-jefferson-and-the-arabian-stallion-a-research-note-on-the-third-president-and-the-foreign-emoluments-clause/>; 

2019: Peter J. Eckerstrom, Yes, the Senate Elevated Partisan Political Goals Over Constitutional Text When It Refused to Consider President Obama’s Nominee to Replace Justice Scalia, 21 U. Pa. J. Const. L. 891 (2019), 21(4) U. Pa. J. Const. L. Online 1 (2019), <https://scholarship.law.upenn.edu/jcl/vol21/iss3/6>, <https://www.pennjournalconlaw.com/uploads/4/7/7/5/47752841/eckerstrom_online_publish.pdf>; 

2019: Jonathan Hennessey, The Foreign Emoluments Clause Applies to the President, Vice President, and All Other Positions in the Federal Government: A Response to Prof. Seth Barrett Tillman (May 14, 2019), <https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3382876>; 

2020: Gerard Hogan (Advocate-General Court of Justice of the European Union) & Hilary Hogan, Legal and Constitutional Issues arising from the 2020 General Election, 63 Irish Jurist 113 (2020), <https://ssrn.com/abstract=3587047> (about 1/2 its pages respond to Tillman); 

2020: A Government Lawyer, Yes, Trump’s Shakedown of Ukraine Was Impeachable “Bribery,” Harv. Nat’l Sec. J. Online 1–9 (Mar. 27, 2020), <https://tinyurl.com/rty8r6s>, <https://tinyurl.com/wmw8okk>;

2024Government’s Response to Professor Seth Barrett Tillman, et al., Amici Curiae Brief in Support of Donald J. Trump’s Motion to Dismiss Based on the Appointment of the Special Counsel, United States of America v. Donald J. Trump, Case No. 23-80101-CR-CANNON(s) (S.D. Fla. Apr. 4, 2024), ECF No. 432, 2024 WL 1490604, <https://tinyurl.com/3kju33w4>;

2024James A. Heilpern & Michael T. Worley, Evidence that the President is an “Officer of the United States” for Purposes of Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment, 98(1) S. Calif. L. Rev. 65, (2024) (posted on journal’s website: Mar. 17, 2025), <https://ssrn.com/abstract=4681108>, <https://southerncalifornialawreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/HeilpernWorley_Final.pdf>; 


Additionally: 

2017: Declarations from 2017:

Declaration of Professor Kenneth R. Bowling, Ph.D. (Exhibit H), in Amicus Curiae Scholar Seth Barrett Tillman’s and Proposed Amicus Curiae JEP’s Response to Amici Curiae by Certain Legal Historians, CREW v. Trump, Civ. A. No. 1:17-cv-00458-GBD (S.D.N.Y. Sept. 19, 2017), ECF No. 85-9, 2017 WL 7964211; 

Declaration of John P. Kaminski (Exhibit G), in Amicus Curiae Scholar Seth Barrett Tillman’s and Proposed Amicus Curiae JEP’s Response to Amici Curiae by Certain Legal Historians, CREW v. Trump, Civ. A. No. 1:17-cv-00458-GBD (S.D.N.Y. Sept. 19, 2017), ECF No. 85-8, 2017 WL 7964226; 

Declaration of Professor Stephen F. Knott (Exhibit I), in Amicus Curiae Scholar Seth Barrett Tillman’s and Proposed Amicus Curiae JEP’s Response to Amici Curiae by Certain Legal Historians, CREW v. Trump, Civ. A. No. 1:17-cv-00458-GBD (S.D.N.Y. Sept. 19, 2017), ECF No. 85-10, 2017 WL 7964225 (absent any formal citation to Tillman); 

Declaration of Professor Robert W.T. Martin (Exhibit J), in Amicus Curiae Scholar Seth Barrett Tillman’s and Proposed Amicus Curiae JEP’s Response to Amici Curiae by Certain Legal Historians, CREW v. Trump, Civ. A. No. 1:17-cv-00458-GBD (S.D.N.Y. Sept. 19, 2017), ECF No. 85-11, 2017 WL 7964229; 

Declaration of Michael E. Newton (Exhibit E), in Amicus Curiae Scholar Seth Barrett Tillman’s and Proposed Amicus Curiae JEP’s Response to Amici Curiae by Certain Legal Historians, CREW v. Trump, Civ. A. No. 1:17-cv-00458-GBD (S.D.N.Y. Sept. 19, 2017), ECF No. 85-6, 2017 WL 7964201; 

Supplemental Declaration of Michael E. Newton (Exhibit F), in Amicus Curiae Scholar Seth Barrett Tillman’s and Proposed Amicus Curiae JEP’s Response to Amici Curiae by Certain Legal Historians, CREW v. Trump, Civ. A. No. 1:17-cv-00458-GBD (S.D.N.Y. Sept. 19, 2017), ECF No. 85-7, 2017 WL 7964223 (absent any formal citation to Tillman); 

Retractions Responding To My Publications:

Steven Calabresi, Letter, President Trump Can Not Be Disqualified—Prof. Steven Calabresi changes his mind, Wall Street Journal (Sept. 12, 2023, 4:30 pm ET); 

Letter from Counsel for the Legal Historians to Judge George B. Daniels, CREW v. Trump, Civ. A. No. 1:17-cv-00458-GBD (S.D.N.Y. filed Oct. 3, 2017), ECF No. 96;

John Mikhail, Our correction and apology to Professor Tillman, Balkinization (Oct. 3, 2017, 8:30 PM); 

Jed Shugerman, An Apology to Tillman and Blackman, Shugerblog: Law, History, Emoluments, Quo Warranto… plus some family fun (Sept. 23, 2017), <https://shugerblog.com/2017/09/23/an-apology-to-tillman-and-blackman/>; 

Attorney General Michael Mukasey reported on Eugene Volokh & Seth Barrett Tillman, No, Hillary Clinton wouldn’t be legally ineligible for the Presidency even if she had violated government records laws, Washington Post—Volokh Conspiracy (Aug. 26, 2015, 12:54 PM); 



Seth Barrett Tillman, Collected Publications And Other Materials Responding In Substantial Part To My Publications,’ New Reform Club (Nov. 12, 2025, 7:52 AM), <https://reformclub.blogspot.com/2025/11/collected-publications-responding-in.html>; 


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