Retractions Responding To My Publications

2024: Michael Stern, The One Where They Mix Up the Bayards, Point of Order Blog (Jan. 21, 2024);

2023: 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);

2019: Editor’s Note, Presidential Revisionism, Bunk (Aug. 20, 2019 update);

2019: Glenda Gilmore (@GilmoreGlenda), X (formerly Twitter) (Feb. 9, 2019, 11:50 AM), [https://perma.cc/J6Q5-93VR]; 

2017: Letter from Counsel for the Legal Historians to Judge George B. Daniels, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington v. Trump, 276 F. Supp. 3d 174 (S.D.N.Y., letter brief filed Oct. 3, 2017) (Civ. A. No. 1:17-cv-00458-GBD ), ECF No. 96, <https://tinyurl.com/ybd783uf>.

2017: John Mikhail, Our correction and apology to Professor Tillman, Balkinization (Oct. 3, 2017, 8:30 PM) (signed, on-line, by Jed Shugerman, John Mikhail, Jack Rakove, Gautham Rao, and Simon Stern).

2017: Jed Shugerman, An Apology to Tillman and Blackman, Shugerblog: Law, History, Emoluments, Quo Warranto… plus some family fun (Sept. 23, 2017);  

2015: 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); 

Changes of Mind Absent Formal Retractions:

2025: John C. Yoo, Essay No. 115, The Take Care Clause, in The Heritage Guide to the Constitution 421, 423 & n.40, 424 & n.58 (3d ed. 2025) (citing Tillman on Ex parte Merryman in Military Law Review). It appears that Professor Yoo has modified his position, but I am not entirely sure.

2025: The Test for Determining “Officer” Status Under the Appointments Clause, 49 Opinion Office of Legal Counsel (Christopher C. Fonzone, Assistant Attorney General), slip opinion at 2 n.1 (Jan. 16, 2025) (“[W]e note that, although the Constitution makes several references to the term ‘office’ or ‘officer’ outside the Appointments Clause, this memorandum does not address whether or to what extent any such references should be read consistent with the term ‘Officer[] of the United States’ in the Appointments Clause.”), <https://www.justice.gov/olc/opinion/test-determining-officer-status-under-appointments-clause>. (Fonzone was a Biden appointee.)

2021: Seth Barrett Tillman, Part II, How Scholars Change Their Minds: 2006, 2009, and 2017, New Reform Club (Aug. 8, 2021, 5:00 AM) (noting Professor Amanda Tyler’s evolving position on Ex parte Merryman);

2021: Seth Barrett Tillman, Part I, How Scholars Change Their Minds: 2005 and 2020, New Reform Club (Aug. 8, 2021, 3:15 AM) (noting Professor Saikrishna Prakash’s evolving position on Ex parte Merryman);

2017: Letter Brief from United States Department of Justice to Judge Daniels (Brett A. Shumate, Deputy Assistant Attorney General), Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington v. Trump, 276 F. Supp. 3d 174 (S.D.N.Y., brief filed Oct. 25, 2017) (Civ. A. No. 1:17-cv-00458-GBD), ECF No. 98 (“[T]he government has not conceded that the President is subject to the Foreign Emoluments Clause.”), <https://perma.cc/ML45-KJBF>;

2017: Seth Barrett Tillman, The Foreign Emoluments Clause—Where the Bodies are Buried: “Idiosyncratic” Legal Positions, 59 S. Tex. L. Rev. 237, 274 n.91 (2017) (invited symposium contribution) (“After hardcopy publication of Professor Nourse’s [2018] article in California Law Review [hereinafter CLR], and in response to my critique and complaints, the student editors at CLR removed these quotation marks from extant electronic reproductions of Nourse’s article. Nonetheless, the student editors refused to publish any response by me in CLR or on CLR Online. Furthermore, I have received no assurances that an errata sheet will be published in any subsequent issue of CLR. Finally, I have no idea if these post-publication changes to Professor Nourse’s article were made with Professor Nourse’s approval, and I have received not one word of explanation from Professor Nourse in regard to all these strange goings-on.”);

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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>; 

See also 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>;