Evaluating Storytelling as a Type of Nontraditional Scholarship

I. Introduction II. The Grand Liberal Tradition III. Delawing Law Schools and Ideology Scholarship IV. The "Outsider" Storyteller: "A New Genre of Legal Scholarship" V. Is the AALS Committee's Recommendation Practical? ... A. The Parity Issue ... 1. Effect on University Relationship ... 2. The Paradigm Argument ... B. Exclusivity VI. Evaluating Legal Scholarship ... A. Evaluation under Rubin's Criteria ... B. The Farber-Sherry Evaluation Standards ... C. Evaluation by Outsiders VII. Evaluating Storytelling: Categories ... A. "Stories" about Pedagogy, Law School, and the Profession ... B. Insider Storytelling ... C. Outsider Storytelling ... 1. Law Parable ... 2. Encounter/Conflict VIII. Criteria for Evaluating Storytelling ... A. Delivering the Message ... B. It Must Add Something ... C. The Dialogue ... D. The Aesthetic Factor IX. Aesthetics and the Honesty Dilemma X. Conclusion