Recommended Reading

This offers a bibliography of scholarship on persuasion in legal advocacy.

This article reviews the persuasive value of using the science of priming in legal advocacy.

This article explains the cognitive science showing that a reasonable tone in advocacy is more persuasive than aggression.

This article presents the results of empirical study showing complex and surprising effects of raising plaintiff’s prior conviction in civil trial.

This piece examines some of the advocacy techniques used by then-Associate Justice Rehnquist to advance his preferred understanding of the Fourth Amendment.

This article discusses how Supreme Court oral argument in a particular case influenced both the Court’s resolution of the case and Congress’s later use of it as a vehicle for major law reform.

This article discusses the increasing potential significance of foreign and international sources in effective advocacy, and the corresponding need to adjust legal education to include such sources.

This article discusses whether the attorney-client privilege should authorize disclosure of communications that would establish actual innocence of a third party.

This article explores provides an instructive taxonomy for developing the advocacy technique of taking a problem and (re)framing it in terms that reflect favorably upon the speaker or the particular point of view she wishes to advocate.