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Appellate Advocacy Skills Bibliography: General

The Appellate Advocacy Skills Bibliograpy is a collection of materials focused on successful strategies and techniques for writing appellate briefs and oral arguments.

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American Bar Association
Anatomy of an appeal part I : procedure, / American Bar Association, Young Lawyers Division
Chicago, IL : American Bar Association, 2009
ii, 20 p. ; 28 cm. + 1 CD-ROM
KF9050.A75 A53 2009

 

American Bar Association

Anatomy of an appeal part II : persuasion / American Bar Association, Young Lawyers Division

Chicago, IL : American Bar Association, 2009

15 p. ; 28 cm. + 1 CD-ROM

KF9050.A75 A532 2009


American Bar Association

Appellate advocacy, / Peter J. Carre, Azike A. Ntephe, Helen C. Trainor, editors; sponsored by the Standing Committee on Continuing Education of the Bar in cooperation with the Appellate Judges' Conference, Judicial Administration Division, Appellate Practice Committee, Litigation Section, and the Young Lawyers Division of the American Bar Association.
Chicago : American Bar Association, 1981
xi, 283 p. ; 24 cm.
KF9050 .A96 1981


American Bar Association. Section of Litigation
Appellate practice manual, / Priscilla Anne Schwab, editor.
Chicago, Ill. : Section of Litigation, American Bar Association, 1992
vii, 360 p. ; 23 cm.
KF9050 .A945 1992


American Bar Association, Section of Litigation
A practitioner's guide to appellate advocacy, / Anne Marie Lofaso, editor
Chicago, Ill. : American Bar Association, Section of Litigation, 2010
xli, 470 p. ; 23 cm.
KF9050 .P73 2010


Appleman, John Alan
Successful appellate techniques,  / John Alan Appleman
Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill, 1953
vii, 1081 p. illus. 27 cm.
KF9050 .A6 


Association of the Bar of the City of New York. Committee on Post-Admission Legal Education
Counsel on appeal, / Charles D. Breitel … [et al.], Arthur A. Charpentier, editor
New York, McGraw-Hill, 1968
xi, 223 p. 21 cm. / "Lectures on appellate advocacy sponsored by the Committee on Post-Admission Legal Education of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York."
KF9050 .A75 C6


Beazley, Mary Beth
A practical guide to appellate advocacy, / Mary Beth Beazley
Austin : Wolters Kluwer Law & Business ; New York : Aspen Publishers, 2010
3rd ed.
xxvii, 404 p. : forms ; 26 cm
KF251 .B42 2010


Bentele, Ursula
Appellate advocacy : principles and practice, / Ursula Bentele, Eve Cary
Newark, N.J. : LexisNexis, 2004
4th ed.
1 v. (various pagings) ; 24 cm.
KF9050.A7 B46 2004  


Bentele, Ursula
Appellate advocacy : principles and practice : cases and materials, / Ursula Bentele, Eve Cary
Cincinnati : Anderson Pub. Co., 1995
2nd ed.
xxi, 314 p. ; 26 cm.
KF9050.A7 B46 1995


Bosanac, Paul
Litigation logic : a practical guide to effective argument, / Paul Bosanac
Chicago : American Bar Association, 2009
xvii, 486 p. ; 23 cm.
KF8915 .B577 2009


Clary, Bradley G.
Advocacy on appeal, / Bradley G. Clary, Sharon Reich Paulsen, Michael J. Vanselow
St. Paul, MN : Thomson West, 2004
2nd ed.
xiv, 238 p. ; 26 cm.
KF9050 .C62 2004


Feteris, E. T.
Fundamentals of legal argumentation : a survey of theories on the justification of judicial decisions, / Eveline T. Feteris
The Netherlands : Springer, 2017
xvii, 361 p. ; 24 cm. / Argumentation library ; v. 1
K212 .F48 2017


Goodrich, Herbert Funk
A case on appeal : a judge’s view, / Herbert F. Goodrich, Conduct of the appeal : a lawyer’s view, / Ralph M. Carson, The argument of an appeal, / John W. Davis
Philadelphia, PA : Committee on Continuing Legal Education of the Law Institute collaborating with the American Bar Association, 1957
[3rd ed.]
vi, 111 p. ; 23 cm.
KF9050 .G66 1957


Huhn, Wilson Ray
The five types of legal argument, / Wilson Huhn
Durham, NC : Carolina Academic Press, 2014
2nd ed.
xii, 212 p. ; 22 cm.
KF380 .H84 2014


Kuhne, Cecil C.
Building your best argument, / Cecil C. Kuhne, III
Chicago, Ill. : American Bar Association, General Practice, Solo & Small Firm Division, 2010
vi, 243 p. ; 23 cm.
KF8915 .K784 2010


Kuhne, Cecil C.
Convincing the judge : practical advice for litigators, / Cecil Kuhne
Chicago : American Bar Association, 2008
xix, 197 p. ; 23 cm.
KF380 .K84 2008


Lavine, Douglas S.
Cardinal rules of advocacy : understanding and mastering fundamental principles of persuasion, / Douglas S. Lavine
Notre Dame, Ind. : National Institute for Trial Advocacy, 2002
xxii, 265 p. ; 23 cm.
KF311 .L37 2002


Lavine, Douglas S.
Questions from the bench, / Douglas S. Lavine
Chicago : Section of Litigation, American Bar Association, 2004
xxi, 199 p. ; 23 cm.
KF8915 .L377 2004


Levy, Herbert Monte
How to handle an appeal, / Herbert Monte Levy
Onlined Resource located in PLI Discover Plus
KF9050.L42or http://discover.pli.edu/Browse/Title?fq=title_id:(621) 



Lynn, Richardson R.
Appellate litigation, / Richardson R. Lynn
New York : Wiley, 1985
xxi, 542 p. ; 26 cm. / Wiley law publications
KF9050 .L96 1985

 

Martineau, Robert J.
Fundamentals of modern appellate advocacy, / Robert J. Martineau
Rochester, N.Y. : San Francisco, Calif. : Lawyers Co-operative Pub. Co. ; Bancroft-Whitney, 1985
Law student and moot court ed.
xvii, 219 p. ; 25 cm.
KF9050 .M36 1985
 

Scalia, Antonin
Making your case : the art of persuading judges, / Antonin Scali, Bryan A. Garner
St. Paul, MN : Thomson/West, 2008
xxiv, 245 p. ; 22 cm.
KF8870 .S28 2008 (Also one copy on Reserve)

 

 

Stern, Robert L.
Appellate practice in the United States, / Robert L. Stern
Washington, D.C. : BNA Books, 1989
2nd ed.

xviii, 554 p. ; 27 cm.
Reserve KF9050 .S75 1989


 

Waicukauski, Ronald J.
The 12 secrets of persuasive argument, / Ronald J. Waicukauski, Paul Mark Sandler,  JoAnne A. Epps.
Chicago : American Bar Association, 2009
x, 241 p. ; 18 cm.
K2251 .W35 2009

 

Waicukauski, Ronald J.
The winning argument, / Ronald Waicukauski, Paul Mark Sandler, JoAnne Epps
Chicago : Section of Litigation, American Bar Association, 2001
xxiv, 182 p. ; 23 cm.
KF8915 .W35 2001



Walton, Douglas N.
Legal argumentation and evidence, / Douglas Walton
University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, 2002
xvii, 374 p. ; 25 cm.
K213 .W35 2002


Wiener, Frederick Bernays

Effective appellate advocacy, / Frederick Bernays Wiener
Chicago : Section of Litigation, American Bar Association, 2004
Rev. ed. / Christopher T. Lutz and William Pannell, editors

xiii, 269 p. ; 24 cm.
KF9050 .W5 2004

 

Weinreb, Lloyd L.
Legal reason : the use of analogy in legal argument, / Lloyd L. Weinreb
Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2016
x, 188 p. ; 23 cm.
K213 .W45 2016


Wisotsky, Steven
Professional judgment on appeal : bringing and opposing appeals, / Steven Wisotsky
Duraham, N.C. : Carolina Academic Press, 2009
2nd ed.
xxv, 477 p. ; 23 cm.
KF9050 .W57 2009