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Live Conferences: The Beauty and

Importance of Conversation


Susan L DeJarnatt
Professor o[ Law
Temple  Universi    Beasley School  of Law

Published: May  2023

       When  the audience comes in, it changes the temperature of what you've
written.
             -Stephen Sondheim.1

       I am moving towards retirement; this is my last year of teaching LRW. I
joined the Temple full time faculty in 1996 after teaching at Rutgers-Camden for
five years as an adjunct. I've experienced several fundamental changes in LRW
pedagogy during my career. I started when the move from product to process was
still relatively new.2 More recently the revolution in research, moving from a focus
on how  to find materials to a focus on information literacy,3 has completely
changed how  I teach research. But in the thirty plus years I've been teaching, the



1 Hat tip to Michael Higdon for this quote. Michael Higdon, The Legal Reader: An Expose, 43
N.M. LAw REV. 77, 123 (2013). The full Sondheim interview is online. What it Takes, Maestro
of Broadway: Stephen Sondheim, ACADEMY   OF  ACHIEVEMENT   (July 5, 2005),
https://achievement.org/achiever/stephen-sondheim/#interview.
2 See, e.g., Linda Berger, Applying New Rhetoric to Legal Discourse: the Ebb and Flow of Reader
and Writer, Text and Context, 49 J. LEGAL EDUC. 155, 165 (1999); Ellie Margolis & Susan L.
DeJarnatt, Moving Beyond Product to Process: Building a Better LRW Program, 46 SANTA
CLARA L. REV. 93, 98 (2005).
3 Ellie Margolis & Kristen Murray, Say Goodbye to the Books: Information Literacy as the New
Legal Research Paradigm, 38 U. DAYTON L. REV. 117, 123-27 (2012).

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