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, inFeminist 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]
Kristen K. Tiscione, How the Disappearance of Classical Rhetoric and the Decision to Teach Law as a "Science" Severed Theory from Practice in Legal Education,51 Wake Forest L. Rev. 385-401 (2016). [HEIN] [W] [L]
