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.

Scholarship

Books

Kristen K. Tiscione, Rhetoric for Legal Writers: The Theory and Practice of Analysis and Persuasion (St. Paul, Minn.: West Academic 2d ed. 2016). [BOOK]

Book Chapters and Collected Works

Kristen K. Tiscione & Angela Onwuachi-Willig, Commentary on Meritor Savings Bank v. Vinson, in Feminist Judgments: Rewritten Opinions of the United States Supreme Court 297-321 (Kathryn M. Stanchi, Linda L. Berger & Bridget J. Crawford eds., New York: Cambridge University Press 2016). [BOOK]

Contributions to Law Reviews and Other Scholarly Journals

Kristen K. Tiscione, The Next Great Challenge: Making Legal Writing Scholarship Count as Legal Scholarship, 22 J. Legal Writing 50-55 (2018). [WWW] [HEIN] [W] [L]
Kristen K. Tiscione, “Best Practices”: A Giant Step Toward Ensuring Compliance With ABA Standard 405(c), a Small Yet Important Step Toward Addressing Gender Discrimination in the Legal Academy, 66 J. Legal Educ. 566-574 (2017). [HEIN] [W]

Selected Contributions to Other Publications

Kristen K. Tiscione, Letter from the President, Second Draft, Fall 2018, at 1-2.
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In The News
October 3, 2018

Professors Hope Babcock, Gregg Bloche, John Copacino, Deborah Epstein, Daniel Ernst, James Feinerman, Anne Fleming, Sheila Foster, Maria Glover, Vida Johnson, Gregory Klass, David Luban, Allegra McLeod, Naomi Mezey, Sherally Munshi, Alicia Plerhoples, Jarrod Reich, Tanina Rostain, Rima Sirota, Abbe Smith, and Kristen Tiscione are among 1700 signatories on a letter, published by The New York Times, delivered to the United States Senate, October 4, 2018, presenting concerns of Judge Brett Kavanaugh's qualifications to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court.

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