A Critique of John Yoo on Ex parte Merryman

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Seth Barrett Tillman

National University of Ireland, Maynooth (NUI Maynooth) - Faculty of Law

Date Written: April 11, 2025

Abstract

Here, on Civitas, Professor John Yoo continues, as he has in the past, to give voice to the standard Ex parte Merryman (1861) narrative, but that narrative cannot be supported in light of current scholarship.[1]


[1] See, e.g., Seth Barrett Tillman, Merryman Redux: A Response to Professor John Yoo, 22 Chap. L. Rev. 1 (2019); http://www.chapmanlawreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Tillman.pdf. See generally Seth Barrett Tillman, Ex parte Merryman: Myth, History, and Scholarship, 224(2) Mil. L. Rev. 481 (2016) (peer review).

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Tillman, Seth Barrett,

A Critique of John Yoo on Ex parte Merryman

(April 11, 2025). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=

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