Responses And Approbations 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).

2006: Sanford Levinson, Comment, Assuring Continuity of Government, 4 Pierce L. Rev. 201 (2006); 4 U.N.H. L. Rev. 201 (2006).

2007: Brian C. Kalt, Response, Keeping Recess Appointments in Their Place, 101 Nw. U. L. Rev. Colloquy 88–93 (2007), republished in 103 Nw. U. L. Rev. Colloquy 292 (2009).

2007: Brian C. Kalt, Keeping Tillman Adjournments in Their Place: A Rejoinder to Seth Barrett Tillman, 101 Nw. U. L. Rev. Colloquy 108 (2007), republished in 103 Nw. U. L. Rev. Colloquy 305 (2009).

2007: Aaron-Andrew P. Bruhl, Against Mix-and-Match Lawmaking, 16 Cornell J.L. & Pub. Pol’y 349 (2007).

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).

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).

2008 & 2009: Saikrishna Bangalore Prakash, Response, Why the Incompatibility Clause Applies to the Office of the President, 4 Duke J. Const. L. & Pub. Pol’y 143 (2009) (available on Westlaw and LexisNexis); 4 Duke J. Const. L. & Pub. Pol’y Sidebar 35 (2008).

2009: Robert F. Blomquist, Response, Beyond Historical Blushing: A Plea for Constitutional Intelligence, 2009 Cardozo L. Rev. de novo 244.

2009: Steve Sheppard, Response, What Oaths Meant to the Framers’ Generation: A Preliminary Sketch, 2009 Cardozo L. Rev. de novo 273.

2009: Bruce G. Peabody, Response, Analogize This: Partial Constitutional Text, Religion, and Maintaining Our Political Order, 2010 Cardozo L. Rev. de novo 204.

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. Pol’y 169 (2010).

2012: Zephyr Teachout, Rebuttal, Gifts, Offices, and Corruption, 107 Nw. U. L. Rev. Colloquy 30 (2012).

2014: Zephyr Teachout, Closing Statement, Constitutional Purpose and the Anti-Corruption Principle, 108 Nw. U. L. Rev. Online 200 (2014).

2016: Zephyr Teachout, Matters of Debate—The Foreign Emoluments Clause, in The Interactive Constitution (National Constitution Center 2016).

2016: Zephyr Teachout, Room for Debate, Trump’s Foreign Business Ties May Violate the Constitution, New York Times, Nov. 17, 2016, 5:06 PM.

2016: William Baude, Constitutional Officers: A Very Close Reading, Jotwell (July 28, 2016).

2017: Gautham Rao & Jed Handelsman Shugerman, Presidential Revisionism, Slate (July 17, 2017, 5:42 PM).

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, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington v. Trump, Civ. A. No. 1:17-cv-00458-GBD (S.D.N.Y. Sept. 19, 2017), ECF No. 85-9, 2017 WL 7964211.

2017: 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, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington v. Trump, Civ. A. No. 1:17-cv-00458-GBD (S.D.N.Y. Sept. 19, 2017), ECF No. 85-8, 2017 WL 7964226.

2017: 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, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington 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).

2017: 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, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington v. Trump, Civ. A. No. 1:17-cv-00458-GBD (S.D.N.Y. Sept. 19, 2017), ECF No. 85-11, 2017 WL 7964229.

2017: 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, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington v. Trump, Civ. A. No. 1:17-cv-00458-GBD (S.D.N.Y. Sept. 19, 2017), ECF No. 85-6, 2017 WL 7964201.

2017: 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, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington 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).

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.

2018: Erik Jensen, The Foreign Emoluments Clause, 10 Elon L. .Rev. 73 (2018).

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).

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).

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). 

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) (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).

2023: Ron Fein & Gerard Magliocca, Free Speech For People Issue Report 2023-01, States can Enforce Section Three of the Fourteenth Amendment without any New Federal Legislation, Mar. 2023.

2024: Government’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.

2024: James 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).

Approbations:

Letter from Professor Forrest McDonald to Seth Barrett Tillman (2004) (expressing the opinion that my (Tillman’s) position regarding the Order, Resolution, or Vote Clause is “historically absolutely convincing”);

Letter from Professor Forrest McDonald to Seth Barrett Tillman (2009) (“Your argument [that is, the “new” view of Federalist No. 77] is, in my opinion, irrefutable.”); 

Letter from Justice Antonin Scalia to Seth Barrett Tillman (2010) (discussing N. Tillman and S. Tillman’s Fragment);

Letter from Justice Antonin Scalia to Seth Barrett Tillman (2012) (discussing Teachout-Tillman exchange on Northwestern University Law Review); 

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Seth Barrett Tillman, ‘Responses And Approbations To My Publications,’ New Reform Club (Nov. 12, 2025, 7:52 AM), <https://reformclub.blogspot.com/2025/11/collected-publications-responding-in.html>; 

See also Seth Barrett Tillman, ‘Retractions Responding To My Publications,’ New Reform Club (Nov. 12, 2025, 11:48 AM), <https://reformclub.blogspot.com/2025/11/retractions-responding-to-my.html>;