Extract from a Recent Application

 

Publication Record. I have published widely and regularly throughout my academic career.

I have published nine articles in traditional peer-reviewed journals, and I have a tenth peer-reviewed article accepted, with a January 2026 publication date. (I have a further peer-reviewed article planned.) I have seven articles in professional (as opposed to academic) journals. I have 28 articles in student-edited print journals. (Even now, I am in the process of co-drafting another such article.) I have 24 articles in student-edited online journals. (Here too, I am in the process of co-drafting another such article.) Some of my articles have appeared in exclusive journals. E.g., American Journal of Legal History (2021 & 2010) (peer review), Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy (2017 & 2010), Northwestern University Law Review (2012), Texas Law Review (2005 & 2005—an opening article and a reply), and University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law (2019).

I have submitted over 40 amicus briefs, motions, and declarations. My amicus filings have been filed in state and federal, trial and appellate, courts, including the United States Supreme Court, as well as an appellate brief before the [UK] Independent Betting Adjudication Service. Additionally, I have authored or co-authored eleven treatise entries. I have co-authored two book chapters.

I frequently write articles on news, politics, and law (for the layperson) for print journals and online magazines, and policy-makers’ venues. E.g., American Spectator (2024 & 2022, and a letter), The Atlantic, Copenhagen Post, Jurist (2024, 2020, 2012), Just Security, Lawfare (2023, 2022, 2020, 2019, 2019, 2018), and Newsweek. My opinion editorials have appeared in domestic newspapers, e.g., New York Times (2022 & 2017), Wall Street Journal, and foreign newspapers, e.g., Belfast News Letter (UK) (2025 & 2025), Irish Independent (and a letter), Irish Times (and six letters), The Times (and a letter) (Irish edn & UK edn), and Sunday Times (Irish edn & UK edn). Likewise, my many letters have appeared in domestic and foreign newspapers of record and other venues, and my letters are cited in other publications.[1] I also blog a good deal—on Balkinization, New Reform Club, Originalism Blog, and Volokh Conspiracy, and my blog posts are discussed and cited.[2] I have published fiction and nonfiction in literary reviews and magazines focused on wider cultural issues. E.g., Claremont Review of Books (and a letter), Dorchester Review (Canada), Eriugena Review (Ireland), Gadfly: Culture That Matters (US), Galway Review (Ireland), New English Review (US), and Quadrant (Australia). Currently, I have several other articles and opinion pieces under review at journals, literary venues, newspapers, etc.

In short, on average, I have published three academic and professional articles per year (that is, since my first academic publication), with additional output in the form of amicus briefs, treatise entries, book chapters, magazine articles, opinion editorials, letters, blogging, and contributions to literary reviews. I have managed to publish at this rate not withstanding that I regularly teach over 300 students, and on some occasions over 400 students, each and every academic semester—without the benefit of teaching assistants, graduate students, and other similar supports.

I speak at academic conferences, and I give guest lectures. I am frequently interviewed by and appear on Irish and US podcasts, radio, and television,[3] as well as in print and on line in Irish, UK, and US news magazines, newspapers,[4] and other similar venues, including undergraduate venues.[5] Usually, I speak to the news and legal news of the day, but sometimes, the interviews are more personal profiles, and I am asked to discuss my own background and publications. See, e.g., Yitzchok Frankfurter, Going Mainstream, 720 Ami Magazine 180–203 (May 28, 2025); Armin Rosen, The Outsider Legal Genius, Tablet Magazine (Mar. 22, 2024).  

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[1] See, e.g., Dragoș Șamșudean, Conspiracy Theories and Faith in Romania: What the Orthodox Bloggers Say?, 68(2) Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai Studia Europaea 175, 184 n.55 (2023) (Romania-based journal) (peer review) (citing Tillman’s 2014 letter to the editor in History Today); Kim Pieters, Attitudes ten opzichte van welzijnsaspecten bij slachten / Attitudes Towards Aspects of Well-Being at Slaughter 32, 84 (Bachelor’s thesis in biotechnology, Odisee University of Applied Sciences, Belgium, 2016) (Flemish-language thesis) (citing Tillman’s 2015 letter to the United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP) on non-stun slaughter).

[2] Compare, e.g., Seth Barrett Tillman, The Two Discourses: How Non-Originalists Popularize Originalism and What that Means, New Reform Club (Mar. 28, 2016, 9:22 AM), with Jack M. Balkin, Memory and Authority: The Uses of History in Constitutional Interpretation 270, 304 n.59, 352 n.34 (Yale University Press 2024) (citing Tillman’s The Two Discourses), and Michael Ramsey, Seth Barrett Tillman on Originalism, Nonoriginalism and Senate Confirmation, Originalism Blog (Mar. 29, 2016, 6:16 AM) (“The whole [Tillman] post [on New Reform Club] is just brutally awesome . . . .”).

[3] See, e.g., Sharon Ní Bheoláin and Bryan Dobson, RTÉ News: Six One (Jan. 31, 2017, 6:00 PM) (Irish state-television interview) (at 25:15–30:55).

[4] See, e.g., Laura Roddy, Donald Trump has friend in court as Maynooth professor disputes case, Sunday Times (UK) (Mar. 24, 2024, 12:00 AM).

[5] See, e.g., Maclain Conlin, Due Process and New York v. Trump: A Conversation with Professor Seth Barrett Tillman, Clemson Law Review Interview (Oct. 29, 2025); Seth Barrett Tillman, Letter to the Editor, “Occupy the Syllabus” fails to note complexity of adding diversity to syllabi, The Daily Californian, Feb. 10, 2015, at 5 (Berkeley student newspaper).

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