A Critique of John Yoo on Ex parte Merryman

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).