Unbelievable: How Narrative Can Help Vulnerable Narrators Overcome Perceived Unreliability in the Legal System, 27 Legal Writing (2023).
It’s Alright, Ma, It’s Life and Life Only: Are Colleges and Universities Legally Obligated during the Coronavirus Pandemic to Exempt High-Risk Faculty from In-Person Teaching Requirements?, 48 Pepp. L. Rev. 649 (2021) (with Professors Mark L. Jones, Gary J. Simson, and Suzianne D. Painter-Thorne).
An Unusual Suspect? Unreliable Narrators in Fiction and Law, 9 Berkeley Ent. & Sports L.J. 1 (2020).
An "Astonishingly Excellent" Solution to Super-Fake Narratives, 58 Washburn L.J. 673 (2019).
- Cited in:
- Joy Kanwar, When Truth Is Not Truth: Thoughts on Teaching in an Era of "Alternative Facts", 58 Washburn L.J. 717, 737 (2019)
- Anne E. Mullins, Opportunity in the Age of Alternative Facts, 58 Washburn L.J. 577, 608 (2019)
How the Boogeyman Saved Brett Kavanaugh, 33 J. Civ. Rts. Econ. Dev. 51 (2019).
Astonishingly Excellent Success or Sad, Loser Failure: Why President Trump’s Legal Narratives “Win” with Some Audiences and “Lose” with Others, 18 Conn. Pub. Int. L.J. 53 (2019).
Stranger Than Fiction: How Lawyers Can Use Fiction Techniques to Create a Sense of Reality in Legal Narratives, 78 La L. Rev. 907 (2018)
Not So Very Bad Beginnings: What Fiction Beginnings Can Teach Lawyers, 86 Miss. L.J. 315 (2017)
- Cited In:
- Julie A. Oseid, What Lawyers Can Learn from Edgar Allan Poe, 15 Legal Comm. & Rhetoric 233, 245 (2018)
Breaking Bad Facts: How Intriguing Contradictions in Fiction Narratives can Teach Attorneys to Cope with Harmful Evidence, 13 Legal Comm. & Rhetoric 1 (2016).
- Cited In:
- Ken Chestek, Of Reptiles and Velcro: The Brain’s Negativity Bias and Persuasion, 15 Nev. L.J. 605, 629 (2015)
Tell Us A Story, But Don’t Make It A Good One: Resolving Confusion Regarding Federal Rule of Evidence 403 and Emotional Stories, 84 Miss. L.J. 351 (2014)
- Cited In:
- § 403.12 Law review articles and other commentary on Rule 403, 5 Wash. Prac., Evidence Law and Practice § 403.12 (6th ed.)
- Aloka Chakravarty, Evolution of the Trial Advocate: From Quintilian to Quanta in the Contemporary Courtroom, 50 Suffolk U. L. Rev. 45, 54 (2017)
- J. Christopher Rideout, Applied Legal Storytelling: A Bibliography, 12 Legal Comm. & Rhetoric 247 (2015)
- § 5214. Introduction to the Balancing Test, 22A Fed. Prac. & Proc. Supplemental Service
- § 5214 (2015)(discontinued in new edition)
A Look Inside the Butler’s Cupboard: Fiction Writers’ Insights on How the External World Reveals Internal State of Mind in Appellate Briefs, 69 N.Y.U. Ann. Surv. of Am. L. 441 (2013).
- Cited In:
- Greg Stone, Branding with Powerful Stories 170 (2018)
- J. Christopher Rideout, Applied Legal Storytelling: A Bibliography, 12 Legal Comm. & Rhetoric 247 (2015)
Like a Glass Slipper on a Step-Sister: How the One-Ring Rules Them all at Trial, 91 Neb. L. Rev. 600 (2013).
- Cited In:
- Teresa M. Bruce, The Architecture of Drama: How Lawyers Can Use Screenwriting Techniques to Tell More Compelling Stories, 23 Legal Writing: J. Legal Writing Inst. 47, 83 (2019)
- ANNETTE SIMMONS, WHOEVER TELLS THE BEST STORY WINS: HOW TO USE YOUR OWN STORIES TO COMMUNICATE WITH POWER AND IMPACT 199 (2015)
- Deborah S. Gordon, Mortality and Identity: Wills, Narratives, and Cherished Possessions, 28 Yale J.L. & Human 265, 267 (2016)
- J. Christopher Rideout, Applied Legal Storytelling: A Bibliography, 12 Legal Comm. & Rhetoric: J.: ALWD 247 (2015)
Come a Little Closer So that I Can See You My Pretty: An Article on Fiction Point of View Techniques in Appellate Briefs, 80 UMKC L. Rev. 399 (Winter 2011)
- Cited In:
- Adam G. Todd, An Exaggerated Demise: The Endurance of Formalism in Legal Rhetoric in the Face of Neuroscience, 23 Legal Writing: J. Legal Writing Inst. 84, 128 (2019)
- Louis J. Sirico, Jr., How Law Employs Historical Narratives: The Great Compromise As an Example, 2017 Pepp. L. Rev. 65, 100 (2017)
- Susan M. Chesler and Karen Sneddon, Once Upon a Transaction: Narrative Techniques and Drafting, 68 Okla. L. Rev. 263, 284 (2016)
- J. Christopher Rideout, Applied Legal Storytelling: A Bibliography, 12 Legal Comm. & Rhetoric 247 (2015)
- Judith D. Moran, Families, Law, and Literature: The Story of A Course on Storytelling, 49 U.S.F. L. Rev. 1, 41 (2015)
- Anne E. Ralph, Not the Same Old Story: Using Narrative Theory to Understand and Overcome the Plausibility Pleading Standard, 26 Yale J.L. & Human. 1, 57 (2014)
- 2 Am. Jur. Pl. & Pr. Forms Appeal and Error Three XII Refs. (discontinued in new edition)
Proving Best Interest, St. Bar Sec. Rep., Fam. L., (Feb. 2004)
Grounds for Termination of Parental Rights, St. Bar Sec. Rep., Fam. L., (Dec. 2000) (Co-Author)
- Cited In:
- In re A.V., 113 S.W.3d 355, 359 (Tex. 2003);
- In re A.L.S., 74 S.W.3d 173, 181 (Tex. App.—El Paso 2002) disapproved of by In re J.F.C., 96 S.W.3d 256 (Tex. 2002) and disapproved of by In re A.V., 113 S.W.3d 355 (Tex. 2003)