Narrative Jurisprudence
James R. Elkins
College of Law / West Virginia University
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On the Nature of Narrative Jurisprudence
What, Exactly, Is Narrative Jurisprudence?
Professor James R. Elkins, West Virginia University
Professor Kim Lane Scheppele, University of Pennsylvania Law School
William Domnarski, article in 27 Legal Studies Forum 109 (2003)
Legal Storytelling: A Strand of Narrative Jurisprudence
An article by David Ray Papke and Kathleen H. McManus, Professors of Law, Marquette University. Professor Papke published one of the early collections of articles and essays on legal narrative, Narrative and the Legal Discourse (1991) and has written extensively on law, literature, film, and popular culture.[See also: David Ray Papke, Discharge as Denouement: Appreciating the Storytelling of Appellate Opinions, 40 J. Legal Educ. 145 (1990)]
Stories: Lowell B. Komie–Legal Education
25 Legal Studies Forum 11 (2001). Komie, now in his seventies, is still practicing law, and still writing. [See: Commentary on the Komie stories and an Interview]
25 Legal Studies Forum 29 (2001)
Stories: Komie–Legal Practice
25 Legal Studies Forum 45 (2001)
25 Legal Studies Forum 133 (2001)
25 Legal Studies Forum 71 (2001)
25 Legal Studies Forum 145 (2001)
Two Ethics Story
Lawrence J. Fox, Adjunct Professor, University of Pennsylvania Law School
An excerpt from Cameron Stracher's Double Billing: A Young Lawyer's Tale of Greed, Sex, Lies and the Pursuit of a Swivel Chair 108-130 (New York, William Morrow, 1998)
Stories in Legal Scholary Writing
Supplementary Reading: Kathryn Abrams, Hearing the Call of Stories, 79 Calif. L. Rev. 971 (1991)
Stories & a Critique of Professional Training
A Story: Derrick Bell
"The Space Traders' Solution"
in The Power of Narrative, 23 Legal Studies Forum 315 (1999); originally published in Derrick Bell, Faces at the Bottom of the Well: The Permanence of Racism (1992)
Stories: John William Corrington
This John William Corrington (1932-1988) story was republished in 26 Legal Studies Forum 211 (2002). Corrington was a published poet, novelist, professor of English literature, and screenwriter, when he took up the study of law at Tulane University at age 40. Corrington wrote, in my view, some of the best "legal fiction" of the 20th century. [Corrington Photo] [For more about Corrington, his life and his writing, see: James R. Elkins, A Great Gift: On Reading John William Corrington]
25 Legal Studies Forum 245 (2002)
Lowell Komie:
A Tribute to Komie and His Stories
John William Corrington:
Legal Education: The Story Perspective
An essay on legal education drawing on journal accounts of students at West Virginia University
Essay by James R. Elkins, 26 U. Memphis L.R. 303 (1996)
Using Stories to Teach (Ethics and Such)
John J. Bonsignore, 12 Legal Studies Forum (1988)
Carrie Menkel-Meadow, 69 Fordham Law Review 787 (2000)
Using Stories to Live
7 Tex. J. Women & L. 123 (1997)
Another Story From Cameron Stracher
in Cameron Stracher, The Laws of Return 158-174 (New York: William Morrow and Company, 1996)
A Derrick Bell Story
Narrative Jurisprudence
Mark Clawson, Associate, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, PC., Palo Alto, California
Ian Ward, University of Dundee
Narrative Jurisprudence: Books
book review by Ira L. Strauber (Department of Political Science)
book review by Susan Silbey, Department of Sociology, Wellesley College
Narrative Jurisprudence: E-Texts
The best (indeed only) comprehensive collection of online legal narratives and commentaries is the e-text collection amassed by the good folks at the Tarlton Law Library, University of Texas
Beyond Narrative Jurisprudence
Other Schools of Contemporary Jurisprudence
[These readings were prepared for use in a six-session presentation (October/November, 2002) for a Jurisprudence Course taught by Professor James McLaughlin, College of Law, West Virginia University. Professor James R. Elkins. Posted October 20, 2002. Email Professor Elkins
