Not posting here any more. Follow me at Mastodon handle above and on my blog/website below. (Associate prof at Texas A&M School of Law, views are my own.)

Dallas, TX
Joined February 2011
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=8j6g…
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The article I tooted about in the thread below is now available #OpenAccess on the journal's site. It explores the concept of #norms in #LegalArgumentation, refining the analytic tool of "#ArgumentSchemes". mastodon.lawprofs.org/@rheto…
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HT to @billhd and the folks at @elireview for making this pedagogy possible.
Replying to @JLWIonline
All students come to law school with rich rhetorical experience, says @Rhetoricked of @TAMULawSchool in "Centering Students' Rhetorical Knowledge." The essay describes how peer review and classroom workshopping can help develop a community of inquiry: legalwritingjournal.org/arti…
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So... I'd rather not have to keep up on 2 SM platforms where before I kept up with only 1. Your thoughts on my choices: (a) Drop Twitter and risk missing out on stuff important to me? (b) Drop Mastodon and miss out on better experience? or (c) Keep both and just suck it up? 2/2
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Needing a Twitter/Mastodon pep talk.... I set up a Mastodon acct, have followed some folks and have some followers. I like the interactions on Mastodon better than on Twitter. But many folks I follow on Twitter to keep up with various things are not on Mastodon. 1/2
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RT Plz! Howdy, #argumentation folks. If you have a Mastodon profile (whatever the instance) please reply here with your handle so I can follow you there. Indicate whether you want to be on this list, so that other #argumentation folks can find you: docs.google.com/spreadsheets…
Thanks, it looked like an all-nighter project, so I hope you got SOME sleep last night!
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Replying to @lufthansa
@lufthansa Flt 582 FRA-CAI, 19 Nov: Really? Plane reminded me of a Yugo (no offense to Yugo). Terrible food (really terrible). Basic refreshments out of stock halfway thru flt. Checked bag soaking wet when we arrived; how long was it exposed on rainy tarmac in FRA?
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In fairness, the flight crew was great! Friendly and helpful as the circumstances would allow.
Replying to @CasonSchmit
@CasonSchmit, Hye-Chung Kum and I continue to recommend a focus on public health in government deliberations on data privacy, this time in a comment on the FTC's advance notice of proposed rulemaking on commercial surveillance and data security practices (ANPR) 1/x
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4) require regulated commercial data collectors to disclose to data subjects that their data may be used for research or public health purposes. And 5) not require individuals to opt in to public health data uses. 5/X
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Excellent question. If the expensive online services are right, the frequency with which a precedent is distinguished is inversely related to its strength. This is prolly on grounds that later courts are effectively limiting the precedent to its facts. What might that miss?
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An interesting comparison I have not considered, but I'm not sure whether it's apt: There is a great qualitative and quantitative difference between those decisions, both from the candidates' and schools' perspectives.
Replying to @Rhetoricked
Why don't law schools send exploding offers regarding law student admission? Could lower-ranked law schools gain as well by gaming admission?
On my co-authored piece in peer review, R1 began: "This is a clever and ambitious paper, but I fear that its author has bitten off more than he can chew in the space available." I immediately expected the comments that followed would be incisive and helpful, and they are. 1/4
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I wasn't happy about us being gendered this way in identity-hidden peer review, but otherwise this kind of review is the best! (BTW, R2 was also helpful, but less dramatic.) I'm actually looking forward to making this revision! 3/4
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Anyone who wants to talk about how to "recover" from an excoriating peer review (which this was not, but I've had 'em), feel free to DM me.
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