Author: Brian Larson

Legal Argumentation: Fall 2023 draft OER text

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(Updated Aug 8 with the current reference version and link to change long.) In spring 2023, I signed a contract with the Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction (CALI) to manage the editing of an open educational resource (OER) textbook for legal writing. It will be the first general legal-writing text from CALI’s eLangdell press. OER texts are available free of charge and can be remixed and reused under a Creative Commons license. Students who want a print copy will be able to order one, basically at cost, from CALI, but the text is most powerful in its electronic form, thanks Read More …

Legal scholars using Google Scholar for inter/multi/cross disciplinary research

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I often read works in #LegalScholarship that exhibit ignorance of the considerable scholarship on the same topics in other fields. It’s as if legal scholars are trapped in the #LawReview searches on #Westlaw #Lexis and #HeinOnline. For example, in #LegalWriting #LRW scholarship, I note that scholars fail to check the research on related topics done in fields such as #rhetoric, #composition, #WritingStudies, and #TechnicalCommunication. Even if legal scholarship refers out to such scholarship, it often fails to consider the conversational context in which that scholarship falls: For example, citing or relying a book in another field without reviewing and considering Read More …