How to prepare your presentations - IRAC





                                            Stands for:





   ·                 Issue

   ·                 Rule

   ·                 Analysis

   ·                 Conclusion

   

   

    1. Parties (defendant, plaintiff)
    2. Facts – describe briefly in few sentences, a timeline may be  useful in some cases, choose
       the most important facts to your legal reasoning, you do not want to overwhelm your
       audience with too many details
    3. Issue – spot the main issue relevant to the topic of the lesson, there may be several side
       issues and subissues, draw an issue scheme if it helps you to find out the most important
       one, try to formulate the issue into a sentence
    4. Rule – find relevant statutory and case law rules the court used in its reasoning
    5. Analysis – describe briefly the most important parts of the court´s reasoning related to
       the issue
    6. Conclusions – what is the court´s solution to the issue?  Think of any consequences the
       decision may have, relate it to other cases we talked about in lessons. Is the decisions
       sound?  Here is your place for a critique. Does the decision leave an open way for other
       courts and interpretation?