Kristen Konrad Tiscione
Professor of Legal Research and Writing
B.A., Wellesley, J.D., Georgetown
Areas of Expertise:
After graduating from the Law Center, Professor Tiscione (then Robbins) joined the firm of Kirkland & Ellis in Washington, D.C. While at Kirkland & Ellis,...
Continue Reading
After graduating from the Law Center, Professor Tiscione (then Robbins) joined the firm of Kirkland & Ellis in Washington, D.C. While at Kirkland & Ellis, she specialized in commerical litigation, including products liability and copyright infringement. Professor Tiscione taught Legal Research and Writing while still in practice at the George Washington University National Law Center and then came to Georgetown to teach full-time in 1994. Her scholarly interests include classical and contemporary rhetoric, as well as empirical research in the current practice of law and its implications for legal pedagogy.
Recent Scholarship
Books
- Kristen Konrad Tiscione & Richard K. Neumann, Jr., Legal Reasoning and Legal Writing (New York: Wolters Kluwer Law & Business 7th ed. 2013). [BOOK]
- Kristen Konrad Robbins Tiscione, Rhetoric for Legal Writers: The Theory and Practice of Analysis and Persuasion (St. Paul, Minn.: West/Thomson 2009). [BOOK]
- Kristen Konrad Robbins Tiscione, Teacher's Manual to Rhetoric for Legal Writers: The Theory and Practice of Analysis and Persuasion (St. Paul, Minn.: West/Thomson 2009).
Contributions to Law Reviews and Other Scholarly Journals
- Kristen Konrad Robbins Tiscione, A Call To Combine Rhetorical Theory and Practice in the Legal Writing Classroom, 50 Washburn L.J. 319-339 (2011). [HEIN] [L] [W] [SSRN] [Gtown Law] [WWW]
- Kristen Konrad Robbins Tiscione, From Snail Mail to E-Mail: The Traditional Legal Memorandum in the Twenty-First Century, 58 J. Legal Educ. 32-60 (2008). [HEIN] [W] [SSRN]
All Scholarship 2000 - Present
Books
- Kristen Konrad Tiscione & Richard K. Neumann, Jr., Legal Reasoning and Legal Writing (New York: Wolters Kluwer Law & Business 7th ed. 2013). [BOOK]
- Kristen Konrad Robbins Tiscione, Rhetoric for Legal Writers: The Theory and Practice of Analysis and Persuasion (St. Paul, Minn.: West/Thomson 2009). [BOOK]
- Kristen Konrad Robbins Tiscione, Teacher's Manual to Rhetoric for Legal Writers: The Theory and Practice of Analysis and Persuasion (St. Paul, Minn.: West/Thomson 2009).
Contributions to Law Reviews and Other Scholarly Journals
- Kristen Konrad Robbins Tiscione, A Call To Combine Rhetorical Theory and Practice in the Legal Writing Classroom, 50 Washburn L.J. 319-339 (2011). [HEIN] [L] [W] [SSRN] [Gtown Law] [WWW]
- Kristen Konrad Robbins Tiscione, From Snail Mail to E-Mail: The Traditional Legal Memorandum in the Twenty-First Century, 58 J. Legal Educ. 32-60 (2008). [HEIN] [W] [SSRN]
- Kristen Konrad Robbins Tiscione, Philosophy v. Rhetoric in Legal Education: Understanding the Schism Between Doctrinal and Legal Writing Faculty, 3 J. Assoc. Legal Writing Directors 108-128 (2006). [HEIN] [L] [W]
- Kristen Konrad Robbins Tiscione, Paradigm Lost: Recapturing Classical Rhetoric to Validate Legal Reasoning, 27 Vt. L. Rev. 483-563 (2003). [HEIN] [L] [W] [SSRN] [Gtown Law]
- Kristen Konrad Robbins Tiscione, The Inside Scoop: What Federal Judges Really Think About the Way Lawyers Write, 8 Legal Writing 257-284 (2002). [HEIN] [L] [W] [SSRN] [Gtown Law]
Book Chapters and Collected Works
- Kristen Konrad Robbins Tiscione, The Inside Scoop: What Federal Judges Really Think About the Way Lawyers Write, in Effective Advocacy in the Federal Appellate Courts 267-295 (Mechanicsburg, Pa.: Pennsylvania Bar Institute 2004). [SSRN] [Gtown Law]
Selected Contributions to Other Publications
View all scholarship
