Publications

Ben stays active as a writer, publishing in both his academic field and the legal writing world. He also contributes to the Washington Post, writing about his two favorite hobbies: exercise and music. And check out his music website Songwriters on Process, where since 2010 he’s interviewed close to 200 songwriters about their writing process.

Academic

“Boosting Creativity Through Exercise.”
Developing Talent: A Practical Guide. Ed. Gaye Mara and Nora Mara. NALP (2016).
“Examining the Connections Between Lawyer Mindset at Work, Physical Health, and Career Trajectories.”
Professional Development Quarterly August 2015: 33-38.
“Lessons From the Classroom, the Writing Center–and the Track: Coaching Attorneys to Be Exceptional Writers.”
Professional Development Quarterly August 2012: 12-17.
“Have Writer‘s Block? Run Away From It. Literally.”
Professional Development Quarterly February 2012: 4-7.
“Establishing a Writing Curriculum at a Law Firm.”
Rewriting Success in Rhetoric and Composition Careers. Ed. Carrie Leverenz, Donna LeCourt, and Amy Goodbum. Parlor Press (2013).
“Shhhhhhame: Silencing the Family Secret in Sam Shepard’s Buried Child.”
Style44.1-2 (Spring/Summer 2010).

“What Attorneys Can Learn from Children’s Literature, and Other Lessons in Style.”
Perspectives: Teaching Legal Research and Writing 16.4 (Winter 2008).
“To Go Boldly Without the Bold (and Italics and Underlining and All Caps).”
Perspectives: Teaching Legal Research and Writing 16.2 (Winter 2008): 131-138.
“Robert Schenkkan.”
Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 341: Twentieth Century American Dramatists, Fifth Series. 2008.
“American Drama and Disability: A Family Systems Approach.”
Diss The Catholic University of America, 2006.
“James Tyrone and Big Daddy in Therapy: Using American Theatre to Teach Drama to Social Work Students.”
Journal of Teaching Writing 20.1-2 (2004): 87-101.

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