Talk:IRAC

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Alternates to IRAC: http://www.barwrite.com/Real-Property.asp (purchase Mary Campbell Gallagher's book, Scoring High on Bar Exam Essays, should have been taught in law school!) Also see http://www.law.whittier.edu/academic_programs/asp/exam.asp. (TICRA, FLIP C section.) (similar discussion) Also please see http://www.leews.com/. Using Gallagher and LEEWS in combination will give you effective advice on writing a law school exam. Additionally, the book, Planet Law School has good tips on writing law school exams. Law school outlines should be written this way: Example: Rule should be stated in point form.

        A contract consists of an offer and an acceptance and consideration.
        Example: Case Name

Planet Law School should not be mentioned. I know a handful of people who took its advice and zero who recommend it. The consensus (on xoxohth and among people I know) is that PLS was written by a money-hungry author ignorant of how to prepare or do well on law school exams but who is willing to prey on the tremendous insecurities of upcoming law students. The author is also notorious for using public venues to promote his book. A few notable threads on xoxohth were started by the author pretending to be someone else promoting the book. This veiled promotion was met with overwhelming criticism of PLS. Any additions of PLS to this entry should be viewed with suspicion. The author is not above pretending to be an impartial outsider.

Removed "Under, Here, Therefore approach, alternative to IRAC. This approach comes from the book Scoring High on Bar Exam Essays by Dr. Mary Campbell Gallagher. http://www.barwrite.com/book_bar_exam_essays.asp" as it had nothing to do with IRAC.

Again, removed:

the first has nothing to do with IRAC, the second gives a HTTP error.

Please sign your posts (two dashes and four tildes), people! I deleted the link to LEEWS as non-notable and advertising. I also changed the title of the link to Heidi Bond's "Why IRAC Sucks," links to outside articles should have the original article. I also added the excellent (and, in my opinion, better informed) rejoinder to that article, namely "In Defense of IRAC." --Edwin Herdman 07:21, 23 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

My business law (Organizational Law) professor instructs us to always create the Issue so it starts with the word "Whether" and ends with a question mark - "Whether...?". I am not sure if this is her individual style or if this is required by the IRAC method. Could someone please check and update the article accordingly? Killer Swath (talk) 21:54, 24 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Removing link: "Why IRAC sucks" because of "Forbidden - You don't have permission to access /archives/000718.html on this server. Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request." Killer Swath (talk) 21:59, 24 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Example given[edit]

The example doesn't seem to be the form of IRAC used on most exams. On most exams, the major issues are broken down into smaller issues, then each small issue is dealt with separately. So for this example, an issue may be "does shopkeeper's privilege apply?" then analyze that using IRAC. Just turning the entire question into one huge issue like "is he liable" doesn't seem to fit with how most people use IRAC. This example looks more like a legal memo or something. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 198.166.23.20 (talk) 22:15, 11 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Read Also: 8 Useful Tips by Experts on How to Write Your Law Assignments Using the IRAC method — Preceding unsigned comment added by 14.99.95.142 (talk) 12:10, 28 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]