Brian Larson

Texas A&M University School of Law

Research Fellow/Former Associate Professor

1515 Commerce St.

Fort Worth, TX Tarrant County 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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Scholarly Papers (17)

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1.

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 308 (206,517)
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argumentation, analogy, legal analogy, argumentation scheme

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Rhetorical Traditions & Contemporary Law

Texas A&M University School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper, University of Louisville School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper Series No. 2024-8, University of Tennessee Legal Studies Research Paper
Number of pages: 342 Posted: 12 Jul 2024 Last Revised: 06 Dec 2024
Elizabeth C. Britt, Brian Larson, Mark Hannah, Francis Joseph Mootz III, Vasileios Adamidis, Laura A. Webb, Susan Tanner, Jennifer Andrus, M. Kelly Carr, Laura Collins, Rasha Diab, Lindsay Head, Erin Frymire and Judy M. Cornett
Northeastern University, Texas A&M University School of Law, Arizona State University (ASU), University of the Pacific - McGeorge School of Law, Nottingham Trent University, University of Richmond - School of Law, University of Louisville - Louis D. Brandeis School of Law, University of Utah, University of West Florida, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, University of Texas, Jacksonville University, Trinity College (Hartford CT) and University of Tennessee College of Law
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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
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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
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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
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online education, legal writing, technical communication, synchronous, asynchronous, peer review

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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
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data privacy, data protection, public health

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

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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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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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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
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legal writing, writing center, multilingual writers

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

27 Legal Writing: The Journal of the Legal Writing Institute 223 (2023), Texas A&M University School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 22-43
Number of pages: 13 Posted: 18 Oct 2022 Last Revised: 02 Mar 2023
Brian Larson
Texas A&M University School of Law
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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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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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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