Brian Larson
rhetoricked@mastodon.lawprofs.org

Hey, @TAMULawSchool students! Sign up for mindful movement & breath (secular form of yoga) during finals weeks. It's free for members of the law-school community. shriya.yoga/blog/mindful-movem

November 17, 2023
Brian Larson
rhetoricked@mastodon.lawprofs.org

As @TAMULawSchool celebrates ten years of affiliation with @TAMU , our talented faculty, staff, and students celebrate as only they Ken. (Oh, and it was also Constitution Day). youtu.be/zzDIlMU3wz8?si=27X2SQ

September 19, 2023
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Dr. Casey Fiesler
cfiesler@hci.social

I posted a video on Instagram about women in computing, and the misogynist trolls are out in force! But I've discovered that the best response to the (dozens of) comments from men I've received along the lines of "CS isn't toxic for women" or "no one is keeping women out of CS" is: "Oh it's so great to see a woman in CS who has had such a positive experience comment on my post!"

August 27, 2023
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Will Baude
willbaude@mastodon.lawprofs.org

For sterner criticism from me and @StephenESachs, see here: reason.com/volokh/2020/10/30/c

April 07, 2023
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Will Baude
willbaude@mastodon.lawprofs.org

I don’t entirely agree with this article but it’s better than the current Bluebook’s approach and kudos for @djsziff for writing it.
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RT @djsziff
I'm happy to announce that my article in the @NCLRev Forum is now live in its final form: Citation, Slavery, and the Law as Choice: Thoughts on Bluebook Rule 10.7.1(d). Thanks to the student editors who made this possible! 1/
twitter.com/djsziff/status/164

April 07, 2023
Brian Larson
rhetoricked@mastodon.lawprofs.org

(self-promotional) RT of @JLWIonline@twitter.com (tags added)

All students come to law school with rich , says @rhetoricked
of @TAMULawSchool
in "Centering Students' Rhetorical Knowledge." The essay describes how and can help develop a :

legalwritingjournal.org/articl




April 06, 2023
Brian Larson
rhetoricked@mastodon.lawprofs.org

Also available (and open access) on the journal's site is the state-of-the-art paper on norms of public argumentation from the APPLY working group, on which I was a contributing author, along with almost a dozen other folks (I co-wrote the section on legal argumentation): link.springer.com/article/10.1

April 06, 2023
Brian Larson
rhetoricked@mastodon.lawprofs.org

The paper in this thread is now available on the journal's website, open access: link.springer.com/article/10.1

April 06, 2023
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David Ziff
djsziff@mastodon.lawprofs.org

If you're into grammar, the passive voice, bankruptcy, or statutory interpretation (or all four) then do I have the Supreme Court case for you! The Court discusses the passive voice in statutory language. Really interesting stuff.
h/t to @rhetoricked
supremecourt.gov/opinions/22pd

March 03, 2023
Brian Larson
rhetoricked@mastodon.lawprofs.org

"Centering Students’ Rhetorical Knowledge: The Community of Inquiry as Formative Assessment": My essay on valuing the rhetorical experiences of diverse students in peer-review contexts has appeared in _Legal Writing_ vol. 27 @JLWIonline@twitter.com






March 01, 2023
Brian Larson
rhetoricked@mastodon.lawprofs.org

RT of my sometime collaborator @CasonSchmit Excited that he and his co-authors have placed this piece in Science
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Can Trolls control Robots?
No, this isn't science fiction. It's the overly sensationalized summary of our new article in @ScienceMagazine with @DNAlawyer and @MegDoerr.
@tamuSPHresearch @TAMU_SPH
Leveraging IP for AI governance

science.org/doi/10.1126/scienc

February 17, 2023
Brian Larson
rhetoricked@mastodon.lawprofs.org

@_RachelHandley Warm congrats on your book launch!

February 08, 2023
Brian Larson
rhetoricked@mastodon.lawprofs.org

@willbuckingham I wonder to what extent the history we teach our kids is not very much like that family tree. In the US, we talk about old George Washington confessing to chopping down the cherry tree (fiction) but not about the enslaved people he purported to own (fact). I don’t mean to crap on your treasured memories (there are many such stories in my family that I love), only to point out that communities have analogous family trees.

February 07, 2023
Brian Larson
rhetoricked@mastodon.lawprofs.org
NYT article on ChatGPT behind paywall

Good take on courses students should take to be more than/better than

HT @MyLegalWriting@Twitter.com

February 04, 2023
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ReginaldOhLaw
ReginaldOhLaw@mastodon.lawprofs.org

Is teaching Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion a form of indoctrination? For example, is teaching black feminism in an AP African American Studies course indoctrination?

No.

*Banning* DEI is indoctrination, however.

Indoctrination is defined as forcing students to absorb/internalize a belief or narrative uncritically and without question.

Banning DEI is calculated to do exactly that.

Thread

February 02, 2023
Brian Larson
rhetoricked@mastodon.lawprofs.org

@lexpedite Your explanation is helpful. I'll think about it some more!

February 02, 2023
Brian Larson
rhetoricked@mastodon.lawprofs.org

@lexpedite After just a quick glance (on vacation here), I wonder how your code maps (or not) onto argumentation mapping tools (eg Rationale, ArgDown, Arucaria, etc.).

February 01, 2023
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Katherine Florey
florey@mastodon.lawprofs.org

Been on the for a couple of weeks now (and even succeeded in switching instances!), so it's finally time for an . Yes, I came here from Twitter like everyone else, but as a Gen Xer, I'm finding this a pleasant throwback to the slightly glitchy but earnest Internet spaces of the 90s/early 2000s. I'm a law prof with extremely eclectic interests: conflicts, civ pro, public health, fed courts, federal Indian law. Also enjoy reading novels, trying to improve my German.

November 22, 2022
Brian Larson
rhetoricked@mastodon.lawprofs.org

Reviewer #1 called the paper “clever and ambitious” before skewering us on a series of issues that we remedied before a second round of peer review; they accepted the second version without further requirements. The paper seems less clever and ambitious to me now, but we’ve made more precise claims and more carefully supported them. Sadly, I don’t have a pre-print to share online, but ask if you want one privately. I hope to see the issue out later this year! 6/6

January 27, 2023
Brian Larson
rhetoricked@mastodon.lawprofs.org

Our definition addresses some questions arising from existing argument-scheme definitions. For example, using our data, we show that a minimally well formed instance of this type of argument does not shift any conventional burden from the proponent of the argument to its skeptics. Instead, we speculate that an argument proponent may be able to shift a burden by saturating the argument with propositions in the critical framework to one extent or another. 5/6

January 27, 2023