NUIM Department of Law

Lecturer

After graduating from the University of Chicago and Harvard Law School, Tillman practiced law in the United States and appeared in state courts, federal courts, and before administrative bodies. He also advised board members in regard to their fiduciary duties in the context of mergers and acquisitions. In addition to private practice, Tillman clerked for Senior Judge Jane R. Roth, United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit; Chief Judge Mark E. Fuller, United States District Court for the Middle District of Alabama; Judge William J. Martini, United States District Court for the District of New Jersey; and Magistrate Judge Malachy E. Mannion, United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania. He hopes to set up an externship program for NUIM law students with Irish judges in the not too distant future.

Tillman was an observer on the Uniform Faithful Presidential Electors Act Study Committee of the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws, and he is a current member of the Education Committee of the Institute of Parliamentary and Political Law, Ottawa, Canada. He has been invited to chair a planned meeting of The Federalist Society to be held in London, and he has an outstanding invitation to lecture at the American Enterprise Institute, in Washington, DC.

Tillman's CV is available here. He has published in a variety of areas in public and in private law. His major publications include:

Seth Barret Tillman, Model Legislative Veto Act (National University of Ireland  Maynooth Legal Studies Research Paper Series No. 2013-12-05), available at http://ssrn.com/abstract=2263820.

Seth Barrett Tillman, Op-Ed, Time to open up courts and let justice be seen, The Irish Independent, August 22, 2012, at 14, http://tinyurl.com/bsy9789, http://ssrn.com/abstract=2129771.

Seth Barrett Tillman, Citizens United and the Scope of Professor Teachout's Anti-Corruption Principle, 107 Northwestern University Law Review (forthcoming circa 2012-2013), 107 Nw. U. L. Rev. Colloquy 1 (2012).

Seth Barrett Tillman, Member of the House of Representatives and Vice President of the US: Can Paul Ryan Hold Both Positions at the Same Time?, Jurist - Forum, Aug. 23, 2012, http://jurist.org/forum/2012/08/seth-barrett-tillman-vice-presidency.php.

Seth Barrett Tillman (with Nora Rotter Tillman), A Fragment on Shall and May, 50 American J. Legal Hist. 453 (2010) (peer reviewed)

Seth Barrett Tillman, The Puzzle of Hamilton’s Federalist No. 77, 33 Harvard J.L. & Public Policy 149 (2010)

Seth Barrett Tillman, Blushing Our Way Past Historical Fact And Fiction, 114 Pennsylvania St. L. Rev. 391 (2009)

Seth Barrett Tillman (with C. Stephen Bigler), Void or Voidable? -- Curing Defects in Stock Issuances Under Delaware Law, 63 Business Lawyer 1109 (2008) (peer reviewed)

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. Pennsylvania L. Rev. PENNumbra 134 (2008)

Seth Barrett Tillman, A Textualist Defense of Article I, Section 7, Clause 3: Why Hollingsworth v. Virginia was Rightly Decided, and Why INS v. Chadha was Wrongly Reasoned, 83 Texas L. Rev. 1265 (2005)