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Mobilized by Critical Race Theory and feminist studies, legal storytelling constitutes a specific form of writing about law, a social critique, and an epistemology. Because it describes subjective experiences lived by an embodied narrator, this type of storytelling introduces into legal studies narratives of singular experiences to show how law constructs and reproduces gender and racial hierarchies by describing its effects on particular individuals. The practice aims to destabilize the appearance of the rationality of law, denounce how the abstraction of legal language is associated with the reproduction of dominations, and offer a situated critique that is close to the standpoint methodology. Relying on several narratives (Susan Estrich, Martha Mahoney, Patricia Williams, and Abrams Kathryn), the article identifies the legal and epistemological issues of legal storytelling in Critical Race Theory.