Brian Larson

Texas A&M University School of Law

Associate Professor of Law

1515 Commerce St.

Fort Worth, TX 76102

United States

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“  My major project at the moment is challenging the determinist rhetoric surrounding legal reasoning and focusing scholars, practitioners, and students instead on legal argumentation’s inherently defeasible nature.  ”

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Law's Enterprise: Argumentation Schemes & Legal Analogy

University of Cincinnati Law Review, Vol. 87(3), 663-721 (2019), Texas A&M University School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 18-55
Number of pages: 60 Posted: 17 Jul 2018 Last Revised: 11 Apr 2019
Brian Larson
Texas A&M University School of Law
Downloads 276 (167,945)

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argumentation, analogy, legal analogy, argumentation scheme

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Precedent as Rational Persuasion

25 Legal Writing: Journal of the Legal Writing Institute 135 (2021), Texas A&M University School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 20-34
Number of pages: 78 Posted: 28 Feb 2020 Last Revised: 27 May 2021
Brian Larson
Texas A&M University School of Law
Downloads 217 (212,464)

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legal argumentation, legal reasoning, jurisprudence, empirical legal theory, legal topoi, case uses

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Reading Minds to Write Emails

Number of pages: 12 Posted: 18 Aug 2020
Brian Larson
Texas A&M University School of Law
Downloads 211 (218,084)

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professional email, rhetoric, pragmatics, cognitive environment

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Best Practices? Lessons from Technical Communication for Online Legal Writing Instruction

Number of pages: 24 Posted: 26 Jun 2020
Brian Larson
Texas A&M University School of Law
Downloads 172 (261,428)

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online education, legal writing, technical communication, synchronous, asynchronous, peer review

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Civil Procedure as a Critical Discussion

20 Nevada Law Journal 967-1035 (2020), Northwestern Public Law Research Paper No. 19-23, Texas A&M University School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 19-70
Number of pages: 70 Posted: 10 Dec 2019 Last Revised: 26 May 2020
Susan E. Provenzano and Brian Larson
Georgia State University - College of Law and Texas A&M University School of Law
Downloads 135 (318,642)

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civil procedure, law and rhetoric, stasis theory, pragma-dialectics

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Endogenous and Dangerous

Nevada Law Journal, Vol. 22, Forthcoming, Texas A&M University School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 21-21
Number of pages: 61 Posted: 30 Mar 2021 Last Revised: 21 Sep 2021
Brian Larson
Texas A&M University School of Law
Downloads 130 (327,998)

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case use, defeasible, argumentation, argument, trial court, fair use, citation

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Data Privacy in the Time of Plague

Yale Journal of Health Policy, Law, and Ethics, Vol. 21, No. 1, 2022, pp. 152-227, Texas A&M University School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 22-10
Number of pages: 76 Posted: 29 Nov 2021 Last Revised: 05 Aug 2022
Cason Schmit, Brian Larson and Hye-Chung Kum
Texas A&M University, Texas A&M University School of Law and Population Informatics Lab, Texas A&M University
Downloads 118 (352,024)

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data privacy, data protection, public health

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The Dialogical Roots of Deduction: Historical, Cognitive, and Philosophical Perspectives on Reasoning, Catarina Dutilh Novaes (Cambridge University Press 2021), 271 pages (Book Review)

Legal Writing: Journal of the Legal Writing Institute, Vol. 26, pp. 227-39, 2022, Texas A&M University School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 22-28
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 04 Mar 2022 Last Revised: 27 Sep 2022
Brian Larson
Texas A&M University School of Law
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deduction, syllogism, legal reasoning, dialogical argument

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Bridging Rhetoric and Pragmatics with Relevance Theory

Relevance and Irrelevance: Theories, Factors and Challenges, Jan Strassheim and Hisashi Nasu, eds., De Gruyter, 2018, Texas A&M University School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 18-65
Number of pages: 4 Posted: 04 Dec 2018 Last Revised: 13 Dec 2019
Brian Larson
Texas A&M University School of Law
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cognitive environment, emotions, goals, communicative production, communicative interpretation

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DOURS: A Heuristic for Discovering Research Questions

Number of pages: 12 Posted: 27 Oct 2020
Brian Larson
Texas A&M University School of Law
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dissonance, originating question, specifying question, research ethics, legal rhetoric, legal argumentation, legal communication, research paradigm

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The Structured Writing Group: A Different Writing Center?

29 The Second Draft/Legal Writing Institute 8-12, Spring 2016, Texas A&M University School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 17-46
Number of pages: 6 Posted: 26 Apr 2016 Last Revised: 03 Jul 2018
Brian Larson and Christopher Soper
Texas A&M University School of Law and University of Minnesota - Twin Cities - School of Law
Downloads 75 (470,590)

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legal writing, writing center, multilingual writers

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Coding Guide for Larson Legal-Argument Research

Number of pages: 43 Posted: 25 Apr 2019 Last Revised: 29 Mar 2021
Brian Larson
Texas A&M University School of Law
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legal argumentation, citation, coding guide

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Medico-Legal Collaboration Regarding the Sex Offender: Othering and Resistance

Rhetoric of Health & Medicine, Vol. 1, pp. 90-131, 2018, DOI:10.5744/rhm.2018.0005, Texas A&M University School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 18-11
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 30 Apr 2018 Last Revised: 23 Jul 2018
Mary L. Schuster, Brian Larson and Amy Propen
University of Minnesota - Twin Cities - School of Law, Texas A&M University School of Law and College of Letters and Science
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Medico-Legal Collaboration, Sex Offender, Civil Commitment, Medical Diagnosis and Prognosis, Legal Statutes, Resistance, Othering

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Second Class for the Second Time: How the Commercial Speech Doctrine Stigmatizes Commercial Use of Aggregated Public Records

South Carolina Law Review, Vol. 58, No. 1, 2007
Number of pages: 60 Posted: 16 Mar 2013
Brian Larson and Genelle I. Belmas
Texas A&M University School of Law and California State University, Fullerton
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First Amendment, public records, data brokers, commercial speech, privacy

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Gender/Genre: The Lack of Gendered Register in Texts Requiring Genre Knowledge

Written Communication, 33(4), 360-84, 2016, DOI: 10.1177/0741088316667927
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 30 Sep 2016 Last Revised: 21 Apr 2018
Brian Larson
Texas A&M University School of Law
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legal texts, legal discourse, corpus, automated text analysis, relevance theory, cognitive environment

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Centering Students’ Rhetorical Knowledge: The Community of Inquiry as Formative Assessment

Legal Writing: The Journal of the Legal Writing Institute, Vol. 27, 2023, Forthcoming, Texas A&M University School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 22-43
Number of pages: 11 Posted: 18 Oct 2022 Last Revised: 06 Dec 2022
Brian Larson
Texas A&M University School of Law
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