For the last couple years, the Outreach Committee of the AALS Section on Legal Writing, Reasoning, and Research has been providing a “Dance Card,” a list of sessions at the AALS annual meeting that we think section members will find interesting. The Dance Card for the 2021 AALS annual meeting is now available.
To skip the BS and go straight to the download, click here: https://www.rhetoricked.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Legal-Argumentation-fall-2020-ed.-FINAL.pdf OK, who needs another legal writing textbook? Absolutely no one, except me. I love Chris Coughlin, Joan Rocklin, and Sandy Patrick’s A Lawyer Writes (3d ed.), but it does not do some things exactly how I want them done, and it does not… Continue reading Legal Argumentation (2021 ed., fall 2020 version)
Updated June 19, 2020, to include link to video of second Zoom session and bibliographic essay; May 29, 2020, to indicate time of June 9 meeting After the wonderful demo that Professor Tracy Norton (Touro Law) provided of online peer-review tool Peerceptiv in early May, I thought it would be helpful for teachers of legal… Continue reading Demo of online peer-review tool Eli Review
This post provides the presentation slides and my notes from a talk at the University of Wisconsin Law School on March 4, 2020. To download the PDF, click this link.
I posted a new article on SSRN this week that presents the big-picture findings of an empirical study I’ve been doing of the argumentative practices of judges and advocates in 199 textual artifacts. (Page numbers here are for the version posted on SSRN on Feb. 18, 2020.) I’ve done the analysis (with the help of… Continue reading What are ‘case uses’ and how do I read box plots?
Each fall in my Legal Analysis, Research, and Writing class, I split students into teams, each comprising four or five students, and have them compete to prepare citations that are correct according to the Bluebook (or the ALWD Guide, depending on your proclivities–I check to be sure they are consistent). They compete in relay races,… Continue reading The Citation Cup: Fall 2019
(Lightly edited March 21, 2022, to correct mechanical errors; featured image “Love Kitty” Copyright 2013 Mark McNestry CC license) by Brian N. Larson & Olivia J. Countryman There has been a great deal of conversation in recent months and years about the appropriate pronouns to use when referring to folks. Merriam-Webster in 2019 added the… Continue reading What’s your pronoun? Contemporary gender issues in legal communication
This is the presentation that Professor Susan Provenzano of Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law and I are giving on Friday, September 27, 2019, at the UNLV symposium on Classical Rhetoric as a Lens for Contemporary Legal Praxis. Download link: https://www.rhetoricked.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/190927-SEP-BNL-preso.pdf
Many colleagues have been at the forefront of organizing and planning the Nevada Law Journal symposium “Classical Rhetoric as a Lens for Contemporary Legal Praxis,” being held at William S. Boyd School of Law, University of Nevada-Las Vegas, September 26-28, 2019, (info and free registration link here) particularly the co-chairs of the symposium, Professors Lori… Continue reading Why you should go to conferences like the UNLV Symposium
Updated August 21, 2019, to provide a link to the final course pack. (You should download and refer to the course pack from now on. You should consider discarding previous versions of the course pack to avoid confusing yourself about dates, etc.) The final course pack is now available on the TWEN site for the… Continue reading Welcome to LARW I (fall 2019)
