BRIAN N. LARSON, J.D. PH.D.

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR | TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW

TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY ARTS & HUMANITIES FELLOW

TABLE OF CONTENTS

I. Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activities ................................................................. 2

A. Current Research Projects .......................................................................................................2
B. Peer-reviewed Journals and Law Reviews ................................................................................2
C. Books, Book Chapters, and Edited Volumes .............................................................................3
D. Conference Presentations with Proceedings (Refereed) ...........................................................3
E. Other Publications and Creative Products ................................................................................3
II. Earned Degrees & Bar Admissions .................................................................................. 3
III. Academic Appointments................................................................................................. 4
IV. Unpublished Research Activities ..................................................................................... 4
A. Presentations..........................................................................................................................4
B. Grants and Contracts...............................................................................................................7
C. Societal and Policy Impacts .....................................................................................................8
V. Teaching......................................................................................................................... 8
A. Courses Taught .......................................................................................................................8
B. Individual Student Guidance at Texas A&M School of Law...................................................... 10
C. Other Teaching Activities ...................................................................................................... 10
VI. Service ......................................................................................................................... 10
A. Community and Professional Service ..................................................................................... 10
C. Texas A & M University Contributions ................................................................................... 11
D. Service at other Institutions .................................................................................................. 11
VII. Professional Employment ............................................................................................. 12
VIII. Honors and Awards ...................................................................................................... 12

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I. RESEARCH, SCHOLARSHIP, AND CREATIVE ACTIVITIES
A. CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECTS
Intersections of Classical Rhetoric & Contemporary Law. Collection of projects for which I have been
awarded a Texas A&M University Arts & Humanities Fellowship
⎯ Brian N. Larson & Susan E. Provenzano, Aristotle to Iqbal: Classical Stasis Theory and
Contemporary Claim Pleading, 20 NEVADA LAW JOURNAL (accepted for NLJ’s 2019-20
symposium).
⎯ Intersections: Classical Rhetoric & Contemporary Law (Robert Gaines & Brian N. Larson
eds.). Edited collection of scholarly articles.
⎯ Law & Rhetoric: A Critical Reader (Kirsten K. Davis, Brian N. Larson, Francis J. Mootz III &
Kristen Tiscione eds.). Reader targeted at 2L/3L law students and rhetoric graduate
students.
Empirical Study of Case Uses in Legal Arguments. Project for which I’ve been invited to the 2019
LWI Sirico Scholars’ Workshop. Ongoing study of more than 200 textual artifacts (court opinions
and legal briefs from which they resulted) to characterize and explain the argumentative uses to
which authors put citations to previous cases.
B. PEER-REVIEWED JOURNALS AND LAW REVIEWS
Note that law reviews/journals are typically (though not always) edited by student editorial boards.
Halcyon M. Lawrence, Sarah Whitcomb Laiola, Alexis Scott & Brian N. Larson, Promoting
Interdisciplinary Undergraduate Humanities Research: A Case for the Continuous Course Lab, under
review with SCHOLARSHIP AND PRACTICE OF UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH (as of March 2019). (Blind peer-
reviewed journal.)
Brian N. Larson, Law’s Enterprise: Argumentation Schemes & Legal Analogy, 87 UNIVERSITY OF
CINCINNATI LAW REVIEW 663 (2019). (Student-edited law review.) PDF on SSRN.
Mary Lay Schuster, Brian N. Larson & Amy Propen, Medico-legal Discourse Regarding the Sexual
Offender: Othering and Resistance, 1 RHETORIC OF HEALTH & MEDICINE 90 (2018). (Blind peer-reviewed
journal.) PDF of pre-print version on Bepress.
Brian N. Larson, Gender/Genre: The Lack of Gendered Register in Texts Requiring Genre Knowledge,
33 WRITTEN COMMUNICATION 360 (2016). (Blind peer-reviewed journal.) PDF of pre-print version on
Bepress.
Brian N. Larson & Christopher Soper, The Structured Writing Group: A Different Writing Center?, 29
SECOND DRAFT 8 (2016). (Blind peer-reviewed journal.) PDF on Bepress.
Genelle I. Belmas & Brian N. Larson, Clicking Away Your Speech Rights: The Enforceability of
Gagwrap Clauses, 12 COMM. L. & POL’Y 37 (2007). (Blind peer-reviewed journal.)
Brian N. Larson & Genelle I. Belmas, Second Class for the Second Time: How the Commercial Speech
Doctrine Stigmatizes Commercial Use of Aggregated Public Records, 58 S.C. L. REV. 935 (2007).
(Student-edited law review.) PDF on Bepress. (Cited in Burnett v. County of Bergen, 968 A.2d 1151
(N.J. 2009) (Albin, J., dissenting).)

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 C. BOOKS, BOOK CHAPTERS, AND EDITED VOLUMES
Brian N. Larson, Bridging Rhetoric and Pragmatics with Relevance Theory, in RELEVANCE AND
IRRELEVANCE: THEORIES, FACTORS AND CHALLENGES 69 (Jan Straßheim & Hisashi Nasu eds., 2018). 37
pages. DeGruyter Mouton.
Lee-Ann K. Breuch & Brian N. Larson, Research and Rhetorical Purpose: Using Genre Analysis to
Understand Source Use in Technical and Professional Writing, in POINTS OF DEPARTURE: RETHINKING
RAD METHODS FOR THE STUDY OF STUDENT WRITING (Tricia Serviss & Sandra Jamieson eds.) (2017). 45
pages. Utah State University Press; PDF on Bepress.
BRIAN N. LARSON & MITCHELL A. SKINNER, REAL ESTATE LISTINGS AND COPYRIGHT (2016). 137 pages. This text
has become the leading text on the subject: The National Association of REALTORS® ordered 500
copies in 2016 for its leaders and for attorneys in the industry. Available at Amazon.
D. CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS WITH PROCEEDINGS (REFEREED)
Brian N. Larson, Gender as a Variable in Natural-Language Processing: Ethical Considerations, 2017
PROCEEDINGS OF THE FIRST WORKSHOP ON ETHICS IN NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING 30. Conference held in
conjunction with the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics
conference. Valencia, Spain: Association for Computational Linguistics. April 4, 2017. (Blind peer-
reviewed proceedings.) PDF on Bepress. Paper listed as reading for HCDE 496/596 “Gender in
Human-Computer Interaction,” spring 2019, at University of Washington (Os Keyes, instructor),
https://ironholds.org/gender-hci/.
Brian N. Larson, William Hart-Davidson, Kenneth C. Walker, Douglas Walls & Ryan Omizo, Use What
You Choose: Applying Computational Methods to Genre Studies in Technical Communication, 2016
ACM SIGDOC ’16. Conference held in Silver Spring, MD, September 2016. (Blind peer-reviewed
proceedings.) PDF on Bepress.
E. OTHER PUBLICATIONS AND CREATIVE PRODUCTS
Brian N. Larson, First-year law students’ court memoranda assignments 2012 (Web downloaded file
No. LDC2017T03). Philadelphia: Linguistic Data Consortium. February 15, 2017. This corpus of
linguistic data, used for the 2016 WRITTEN COMMUNICATION article, is available to other researchers
through LDC. Abstract at Bepress.
Brian N. Larson, WrittenCommunication2016 [GitHub Repository]. Python, Atlanta, GA. Retrieved
from https://github.com/rhetoricked/WrittenCommunication2016 . 2016. This repository includes
the code used to generate data for the 2016 WRITTEN COMMUNICATION article.
Brian N. Larson, Laura Pigozzi & Anne Lazaraton, Writing for International Students: Upper-division
Research Progress Report (2014) (unpublished report, University of Minnesota) (on file with
authors). 80 pages.
II. EARNED DEGREES & BAR ADMISSIONS
Doctor of Philosophy.
Rhetoric and Scientific and Technical Communication. Minor: Cognitive
Science. University of Minnesota. May 2015.
Juris Doctor. William Mitchell College of Law (now Mitchell Hamline School of Law). Summa cum
laude. May 2000.
Bachelor of Arts. Linguistics and Scandinavian Studies. University of Wisconsin—Madison. Degree
granted with distinction. August 1992.

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 Bar admissions. Supreme Court of Texas (November 2017); U.S. District Court for the District of
Minnesota (February 2003); United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit (December 2014);
Georgia Bar (Active: January 2016; Inactive: January 2018 – April 2019; resigned April 2019);
Supreme Court of Minnesota (Active: November 2000; resigned June 2018).
III. ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
Texas A&M University School of Law. Fort Worth, TX.
Associate Professor (tenure line). August 2017 – present.
School of Literature, Media, and Communication, Georgia Institute of Technology. Atlanta, GA.
Assistant Professor (tenure line). August 2015 – June 2017.
IV. UNPUBLISHED RESEARCH ACTIVITIES
A. PRESENTATIONS
A1. Keynotes and invited seminars and presentations
“Regulatory and Industry Factors Affecting Residential Real Estate Competition” (invited panelist).
What’s New in Residential Real Estate Brokerage Competition – An FTC-DOJ Workshop,
Washington, DC. June 5, 2018. (Program page and video.)
“Using Technology to Make Real Estate More Competitive” (invited panelist). Information
Technology & Innovation Foundation, Washington, DC. April 5, 2018. (Program page and video.)
“Gender/genre: The lack of gendered register in texts requiring genre knowledge.” Texas A&M
University School of Law, Fort Worth, TX. October 31, 2016.
“EULAs: Why copyright is not enough.” Council of Multiple Listing Services Legal Seminar, Las
Vegas, NV. September 20, 2016. National continuing legal education program.
“MLS Collaborations: Business and legal considerations for leadership.” Council of Multiple Listing
Services Legal Seminar, Las Vegas. September 20, 2016. National continuing legal education
program.
“Legal communication instructors should do empirical research.” Legal Writing Institute, Portland,
OR. July 12, 2016. Plenary session sponsored by LWI Professional Status Committee.
“Law and technology: Digital media and cyberlaw update.” Council of Multiple Listing Services Legal
Seminar, Kansas City, MO. October 7, 2015. National continuing legal education program.
“Case-based reasoning: Theory, pedagogy, and practice.” Stetson University College of Law,
Gulfport FL. November 17, 2014.
“Responding to law student writing: Research-based approaches.” University of Minnesota Law
School, Minneapolis. August 21, 2014.
“Orientation for advanced writing instructors” (with Laura M. Pigozzi). University of Minnesota,
Writing Studies Department, Minneapolis. August 25/27, 2014.
“Responding to law student writing: Research-based approaches.” University of Minnesota Law
School, Minneapolis. August 22, 2013.

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 A2. U.S. & International Refereed Conferences
“High-Tech Peer Feedback: Peer Review Software as Legal Writing Technology Tool.” Presentation
(with Kirsten K. Davis). 19th Annual Rocky Mountain Legal Writing Conference, University of
Nevada—Las Vegas, William S. Boyd School of Law. March 15, 2019. (Acceptance rate unknown.)
“Law’s Enterprise.” Symposium presenter. West Coast Rhetoric Scholarship Symposium, University
of Nevada—Las Vegas, William S. Boyd School of Law. November 16, 2018. (Acceptance rate
unknown.)
“Weird Science: The Empirical Study of Legal Writing.” Panel presenter (with Kenneth D. Chestek,
Lance N. Long, Shaun D. Spencer). 18th Biennial Conference of the Legal Writing Institute,
Milwaukee, WI. July 14, 2018. (Acceptance rate unknown.) PDF on Bepress.
“How We Built a Scholarly Working Group Devoted to Classical Legal Rhetoric (and How You Can Do
the Same Thing with Other Legal Writing Subjects).” Panel organizer and presenter (with others)
18th Biennial Conference of the Legal Writing Institute, Milwaukee, WI. July 12, 2018. (Acceptance
rate unknown.) PDF on Bepress.
“Flag-waving: Visual arguments, verbal reconstruction, and speaker intentions.” 9th Quadrennial
Conference of the International Society for the Study of Argumentation, Amsterdam. July 5, 2018.
(Acceptance rate unknown.) PDF on Bepress.
“Celebrating Classical Rhetoric & Building Contemporary Law.” Panel presentation (with Kirsten
Davis, Francis J. Mootz, Susan Provenzano, Susie Salmon). 18th Biennial Conference of the Rhetoric
Society of America, Minneapolis, MN. Scheduled June 2, 2018. (Acceptance rate unknown.) PDF on
Bepress.
Conference Workshop: Corpus Linguistic Approaches to Teaching and Studying Writing. Conference
workshop faculty (with several others). “Hand annotation and reliability.” Conference on College
Composition & Communication, Kansas City, MO. March 14, 2018. (Acceptance rate unknown.) PDF
on Bepress.
“By reading this title, you have agreed to our terms of service.” Panel presentation (with Halcyon
Lawrence & Sarah Whitcomb Laiola). 7th Annual Symposium on Communicating Complex
Information, Greenville, NC. (Acceptance rate unknown.) PDF on Bepress.
“Creative Collaborations: Cultivating New Voices from the Undergraduate Legal Writing
Community.” Panel chair. Conference on College Composition & Communication, Portland OR.
March 17, 2017. (Acceptance rate unknown.)
“Gender as a variable in writing studies: Ethics and methodology.” Writing Research Across Borders
IV, Bogotá. February 16, 2017. (Acceptance rate unknown.)
“Qualitative empirical research in legal writing: The example of exemplary reasoning.” Legal
Writing Institute Biennial Conference, Portland, OR. July 13, 2016. (Acceptance rate unknown.)
“La même chose: Lawyers’ use of exemplary reasoning in persuasive writing.” Rhetoric Society of
America Biennial Conference, Atlanta. May 29, 2016. (Acceptance rate unknown.)
“‘It’s that obsession with grammar’: The discursive construction of international students in
technical and professional writing courses” (with Anne Lazaraton & Laura Pigozzi). American
Association of Applied Linguistics Conference, Orlando, FL. April 2016. (Abstract accepted; authors
unable to attend. Acceptance rate unknown.)

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 “Relevance, cognitive environment, and audience.” Conference on College Composition &
Communication, Houston. April 8, 2016. (Acceptance rate, 29.8%.)
“Technical communication and second language writing intersect: What students are thinking at
the crossroads” (with Laura M. Pigozzi). Modern Language Association Annual Conference,
Vancouver, BC. January 10, 2015. (Acceptance rate unknown.)
“‘Irreparable harm’ and legal arguments by analogy and example.” 8th Quadrennial Conference of
the International
Society for the Study of Argumentation (ISSA), Amsterdam. July 3, 2014.
(Acceptance rate unknown.)
“Reconsidering the generic status of student writing” (with Lee-Ann K. Breuch). Conference on
College Composition & Communication, Indianapolis. March 22, 2014. (Acceptance rate unknown.)
“Gender differences in disciplinary writing.” Writing Research Across Borders III, Paris. February 20,
2014. (Acceptance rate, 61.6%.)
“Articulations of research: Examining research results in problem-focused student writing” (with
Lee-Ann K. Breuch). Writing Research Across Borders III, Paris. February 22, 2014. (Acceptance rate,
61.6%.)
“Examining a Twitter-based discourse community of composition scholars.” Conference on College
Composition & Communication, Las Vegas. March 15, 2013. (Acceptance rate unknown.)
“Building Bridges within Digital Humanities” (with Fortin, M.A., Gil, A., & Marcotte, S. Moderator:
Skallerup Bessette, L.). Modern Language Association Annual Conference, Boston. January 3, 2013.
MLA President Michael Bérubé included the roundtable in the brochure on the year’s presidential
theme, Avenues of Access. (Acceptance rate unknown.)
“Analysis and impact of student research writing in a technical and professional writing course”
(with Lee-Ann K. Breuch). Conference of Council on Programs
in Technical & Scientific
Communication, Houghton, MI. September 28, 2012. (Acceptance rate unknown.)
“Second class for the second time: How the commercial speech doctrine stigmatizes commercial
use of aggregated public records” (with Genelle I. Belmas). University of South Carolina Law School
Symposium
on Commercial Speech in an Age of Emerging Technology and Corporate Scandal,
Columbia, SC. February 16, 2007. (Acceptance rate unknown.)
A3. Selected Other Academic Presentations & Participation
“Star-Spangled: The flag as tool of protest and nationalism” (with Genelle I. Belmas). American
Culture Association/Popular Culture Association Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA. March 23, 2016.
Building Sophware Hands-on Workshop. 6th Biennial Rhetoric Society of America Summer Institute,
Madison, WI. June 5–7, 2015.
“Analyzing Large-Scale Datasets in Writing Studies.” ATTW 2015 Research Methods Workshop.
Association of Teachers of Technical Writing, Tampa FL. MARCH 17, 2015. Enrollment following
competitive application process.
“Gender/Genre: Gender differences in professional writing.” Current Research in Writing
Studies
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. October 29, 2014. Departmental presentation.
“Gender as a variable in writing studies: Ethics and methodology.” Doing Rhetoric at the University
of Minnesota, Minneapolis. September, 20, 2014. Graduate student conference.

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 Summer School on Argumentation in Context. Department of Speech Communication,
Argumentation Theory, and Rhetoric University of Amsterdam. June 23 – 27, 2014. Week-long
seminar exploring the pragma-dialectic model of argumentation with leading faculty, including
Frans H. van Eemeren, Bart Garssen, and Eveline Feteris.
Session chair: “Student research and assignments across/in the disciplines.” 12th International
Writing Across the Curriculum Conference, Minneapolis. June 13, 2014.
“WRIT 3029W, WRIT 3562W, and the Writing for International Students Program (WINS)” (with
Laura M. Pigozzi). Teachers Teaching Teachers, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. February, 12,
2014.
Seminar in Argumentation. 5th Biennial Rhetoric Society of America Summer Institute, Lawrence KS.
June 3 – 7, 2013. Week-long seminar with leading faculty, including David Zarefsky, Jeanne
Fahnestock, and Frans H. van Eemeren.
“Cognitive-pragmatic rhetoric and rhetorical genre.” Doing Rhetoric at the University of Minnesota,
Minneapolis. April 27, 2013. Graduate student conference.
“Gender/Genre: Gender differences in professional writing (Phase II).” Conference on College
Composition and Communication, Las Vegas, Genre in Action workshop. March 13, 2013.
Lisbon Machine Learning School 2012,
Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisbon, Portugal. July 19 – 25,
2012. Week-long program on development and use of machine learning algorithms in natural-
language processing.
“Gender/genre: Gender differences in professional writing.” Conference on College Composition
and Communication Research Network Forum, Saint Louis. March 21, 2012.
“Collaborative learning in an online technical communication class.” Minnesota Colleges and
Universities
English and Writing (MnCUEW), Brooklyn Park, MN. March 25, 2011.
A4. Selected National Trade Presentations
Chairman. Council of Multiple Listing Services Legal Seminar, Huntington Beach. September 23,
2014. National continuing legal education program.
Chairman. Council of Multiple Listing Services Legal Seminar, Boise, ID. October 2, 2013. National
continuing legal education program.
“Copyright fundamentals and piracy litigation.” Council of Multiple Listing Services Legal Seminar,
Boise, ID. September 26, 2012. National continuing legal education program.
“Legal analysis of data-licensing agreements proposed to real estate multiple listing services.” Real
Estate Information Symposium, Houston. March 30, 2010.
Organizer/leader. NAR/DOJ Virtual Office Website Mini-Conference, Denver. July 22, 2008.
B. GRANTS AND CONTRACTS
“Intersections of Classical Rhetoric & Contemporary Law”
Texas A&M University Arts and Humanities Fellowship
Date: April 2019
Amount Received: $15,000
Role: PI
“The Pragmatics of Othering: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Cyberhate”

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 Texas A&M Triads for Transformation
Date: January 1, 2019
Amount Received: $30,000
Role: PI (with Dr. Jyotsna Vaid and Dr. Zohreh R. Eslami)
Period of contract: January 1, 2019–December 31, 2020
“REULlab: Responsible End-User Licensing Lab”
Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts Digital Integrative Liberal Arts Center Fund
Date: February 17, 2016
Amount Received: $20,000
Role: PI
Period of contract: March 2016 –June 2017
C. SOCIETAL AND POLICY IMPACTS
“Chatting about oral advocacy and ‘vocal fry.’” Before the Bar (online publication by American Bar
Association for law students). Dec. 8, 2016. Part of Larson’s participation in a Facebook chat among
scholars of legal communication was quoted in article.
http://abaforlawstudents.com/2016/12/08/chatting-about-oral-advocacy-and-vocal-fry/
Celeste Headlee & Trevor Young. “Study Finds Men and Women Don’t Communicate Differently
When Tasked with Writing.” On Second Thought: Georgia Public Broadcasting News. Dec. 7, 2016.
Larson interviewed on public radio. http://gpbnews.org/post/study-finds-men-and-women-dont-
communicate-differently-when-tasked-writing
“Actually, Men and Women Don’t Communicate Differently, at Least in Writing,” ScienceBlog.
November 28, 2016. Reporting on Larson’s 2016 Written Communication article. Larson quoted.
https://scienceblog.com/490194/actually-men-women-dont-communicate-differently-least-
writing/
Rogers, Victor. “Is Civil Political Discourse Dead? Professors Weigh in on What It Means to Be ‘PC.’”
The Whistle. 40(14), p. 1, 5 July 2016. Also appears at
http://www.news.gatech.edu/2016/07/05/political-civility-dead as “Is Political Civility Dead?
Professors Weigh in on What It Means to Be ‘PC.’” Larson interviewed and quoted.
V. TEACHING
A. COURSES TAUGHT
Texas A&M University School of Law
Semester, Year Course # Course Title # of Students
Spring 2018 LAW 7002 Legal Analysis, Research, and Writing 19
Fall 2018 LAW 7001 Legal Analysis, Research, and Writing 37
Spring 2018 LAW 7002 Legal Analysis, Research, and Writing 16
Fall 2017 LAW 7001 Legal Analysis, Research, and Writing 18

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 Georgia Institute of Technology
Semester, Year Course # Course Title # of Students
Spring 2017 LMC 3403 Technical Communication, Theory and 22
Practice
Spring 2017 LMC 6215 Issues in Media Studies (co-listed with 3408) 2
Spring 2017 LMC 3408 Rhetoric of Technical Narratives (co-listed 12
with 6215)
Fall 2016 LMC 3403 Technical Communication, Theory and 16
Practice
Fall 2016 LMC 6215 Issues in Media Studies (co-listed with 3408) 4
Fall 2016 LMC 3408 Rhetoric of Technical Narratives (co-listed 13
with 6215)
Spring 2016 LMC 3403 Technical Communication, Theory and 10
Practice
Spring 2016 LMC 3412 Communicating Science and Technology to 7
the Public
Fall 2015 LMC 3403 Technical Communication, Theory and 12
Practice

University of Minnesota—Twin Cities

Semester, Year Course # Course Title # of Students
Spring 2015 WRIT4431 Science, Technology, and Law 24
AY 2014-15 n/a Law School Structured Writing Group 60
AY 2013-14 LAW6003 Legal Research and Writing 12
Fall 2013 WRIT3562 Technical and Professional Communication 23
(fully online)
Spring 2013 WRIT3001 Writing Arguments 24
Fall 2012 WRIT3562 Technical and Professional Communication 23
(fully online)
Spring 2012 WRIT3562 Technical and Professional Communication 23
(fully online)
Spring 2011 WRIT3562 Technical and Professional Communication 22
(fully online)
Fall 2010 WRIT3562 Technical and Professional Communication 23
AY 2009-10 LAW6003 Legal Research and Writing ~10
AY 2008-09 LAW6003 Legal Research and Writing ~10

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 Semester, Year Course # Course Title # of Students
Spring 2008 LAW6003 Legal Research and Writing ~10
AY 2006-07 LAW6003 Legal Research and Writing ~10
AY 2005-06 LAW6003 Legal Research and Writing ~10
AY 2004-05 LAW6003 Legal Research and Writing ~10

B. INDIVIDUAL STUDENT GUIDANCE AT TEXAS A&M SCHOOL OF LAW

Cade Bradberry, J.D. 2020. “The 2017 Hailstorm Bill and the Raging Storm Between Texas Tort
Reformers and Plaintiffs’ Attorneys,” note written for Texas A&M University Journal of Property
Law, 2018–19.
Mengyuan Fang, J.D. 2019. “Assessment of the Berkson Four-Part Inquiry through Empirical
Studies,” note written for Texas A&M University Journal of Property Law, 2017–18.
Faculty adviser to four 1L students each year: 2017–18, 2018–19.
C. OTHER TEACHING ACTIVITIES
“Structured Writing Group.” University of Minnesota Law School. Developed a curriculum for a
year-long supplemental discussion/recitation for students, particularly multilingual students (or
“non-native speakers of English”), who need assistance with the linguistic registers and genres of
legal communication. Piloted program in 2014-15 academic year. See Larson & Soper (2016) above
for details.
“Writing for International Students.” University of Minnesota—Twin Cities. Co-principal investigator
on empirical study to assess international student perceptions of upper division undergraduate
writing courses. Research methods included survey questionnaires, interviews, and classroom
observations. Jointly responsible for design of curriculum for course section dedicated to
multilingual students and for related resources for instructors of all sections of upper division
writing courses. See Pigozzi, Larson, and Lazaraton (2014) above for details.
“Minnesota Observation of Writing Teachers Interest Group.” University of Minnesota—Twin Cities.
Founder and 2014-15 chairman of MOWTIG, interest group for graduate students and faculty
interested in developing skills as formal observers of writing instruction. The group’s goal is to
enhance members’ awareness of teaching evaluation theory, methods for formal observations, and
management skills. Group members also value increased opportunities to be observed by others
and to improve their own pedagogy.
VI. SERVICE
A. COMMUNITY AND PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Scholarship Development Committee, Legal Writing Institute. Member, 2018–20.
Outreach Committee, Section for Legal Writing, Reasoning, and Research, Association of American
Law Schools. Member, Feb. 2018 – present. Co-chair, 2019 – present
Assistant Editor, Journal of the Legal Writing Institute. Volumes 22 & 23. 2018 & 2019.
Dallas LGBT Bar Association. Member May 2018 – present.

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 Dallas Bar Association. Member Feb. 2018 – present. Small & Solo Firm and Science & Technology
Sections. Member, Law in the Schools Committee. Volunteer interviewer, Summer Law Intern
Program.
Service as peer reviewer. Served as peer reviewer for, or was invited to serve by, Written
Communication, Journal of Popular Culture, Journal of Business & Technical Communication, and
Legal Communication & Rhetoric. 2013 – present. Association of Educators in Journalism and Mass
Communication, Law and Policy Division, Spring Colloquium. January 2016.
American Bar Association. Member 2000–present. Section of Intellectual Property Law (IPL) Liaison
to Standing Committee on Technology and Information Systems, 2008–09. Chairman, IPL Section
Databases & E-Commerce Committee, 2007–08. Member, IPL Section Annual Report Board, 2007–
08. Member, IPL Section Committee on Online Data, Transactions, and Security (previously
Databases & E- Commerce Committee), 2002–2009.
MLS Domains Association. Member, Board of Directors, 2013–2016. Corporate Secretary, 2010–
2016. Non-profit trade association sought new top-level domain from Internet Corporation for
Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) via international collaboration with the Canadian Real
Estate Association.
Real Estate Information Providers Association. Member of board of directors, 2008 – 2010, of
national association of real estate public records data brokers and commercial users of public
records data.
Hennepin County (MN) Bar Association Speaker's Bureau. Speaker presenting to high school
students, senior groups, and other community groups on aspects of the American legal system.
2005 – 2010.
American Mock Trial Association. Volunteer judge for invitational and regional intercollegiate mock
trial competitions. 2003 – 2007.
C. TEXAS A & M UNIVERSITY CONTRIBUTIONS
OUTlaw LGBTQ student group, Texas A&M University School of Law. Adviser to group’s re-
formation. 2017 – 2019.
Diversity Council, Texas A&M University School of Law. 2017 – 2019.
Strategic Priorities Working Group, Texas A&M University School of Law. 2018 – 2019.
Student Conduct Panel, Texas A&M University School of Law. 2018 – 2019.
Student Publications Committee, Texas A&M University School of Law. 2017-18.
D. SERVICE AT OTHER INSTITUTIONS
Brittain Fellow Hiring Committee. School of Literature, Media, and Communication, Georgia
Institute of Technology. Spring 2017.
Diversity Work Group. School of Literature, Media, and Communication, Georgia Institute of
Technology. Fall 2016 – Spring 2017.
General education subcommittee, Institute undergraduate curriculum committee. Georgia Institute
of Technology. Fall 2016 – Spring 2017.
Undergraduate curriculum committee. School of Literature, Media, and Communication, Georgia
Institute of Technology. Fall 2016 – Spring 2017. Chair, January 2017 – May 2017.

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 GT Safe Space. Georgia Institute of Technology. March 2016 – May 2017.
Intellectual Property Advisory Board. Georgia Institute of Technology. Fall 2015 – Spring 2017.
Women’s Resources Center faculty advisory board. Georgia Institute of Technology. Served on
faculty advisory board, Fall 2015 – Spring 2017.
Doing Rhetoric Organizing Committee. University of Minnesota—Twin Cities. Member of graduate
student group spanning two departments, Writing Studies and Communication Studies, charged
with organizing and funding campus rhetoric conference.
Advisory Committee to Director of Graduate Studies. Writing Studies Department, University of
Minnesota—Twin Cities. One of two graduate students elected by peers for academic year 2014-15.
Represented the interests of graduate students before the director of graduate studies and the
faculty of the department.
VII. PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT
Larson Skinner PLLC
formerly Larson/Sobotka PLLC and law office of Brian N. Larson. Minneapolis, MN.
Of counsel. August 2015 – present. (Consulting role.)
Managing member. May 2008 – July 2015.
Sole proprietor. May 2002 – April 2008.
Founded and managed a national boutique law practice serving clients in the residential real
estate technology field. Served as firm’s managing member until 2015. Firm’s practice focuses
on copyright, trademarks, licensing, Internet matters, antitrust, and corporate governance.
Regional Multiple Listing Service of Minnesota, Inc. Saint Paul, MN.
President and general counsel. October 2000 – June 2002 (other positions November 1993 –
October 2000).
Worked as chief staff executive of cooperative information technology business owned by non-
profit trade associations and managed by volunteer board of directors representing complex,
overlapping constituencies. By 2002, full-time staff of thirteen, technology contractors, and
operations resulted in overall budget of more than $4 million.
Saint Paul Area Association of REALTORS®, Inc. Saint Paul, MN.
Communications director. August 1990 – December 1993.
Deloitte (formerly Touche Ross & Co. management consulting). Minneapolis, MN.
Business graphic designer. October 1988 – January 1990.
VIII. HONORS AND AWARDS
Texas A&M University Arts & Humanities Fellow. Class of 2019.
Thank a teacher! Georgia Institute of Technology. Spring 2016.
Thank a teacher! Georgia Institute of Technology. Fall 2015.
Council of Multiple Listing Services Hall of Fame. October 2015.

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 Association of Teachers of Technical Writing. Graduate student scholarship to attend Research
Methods Workshop ($200). 2015.
University of Minnesota
Writing Studies Department James I. Brown fellowship recipient
($5000). 2014.
Swanepoel 200. 2013, 2014. List of 200 most influential leaders in real estate industry.
University of Minnesota
College of Liberal Arts Graduate Research Partnership Program fellow
($5000). Dr. Lee-Ann K. Breuch, supervisor. 2012.
Inman News. 100 Most Influential Real Estate Leaders. 2009-2013.
Selected for four consecutive years as one of the 100 most influential leaders in the real estate
industry by Inman News, a national real estate news website with a focus on industry
technology. Other honorees included members of Congress and national real estate regulators.

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