IRAC is a mnemonic they teach you in first-year legal writing classes. The letters stand for the four components of a legal brief or exam response: Issue, Rule, Analysis, Conclusion. Millions of law students learn the IRAC method every year and they use it to write dry little briefs arguing whether or not X breached a contract to make widgets for Ms. Y. It probably wasn’t intended to be employed as a means for a horny law student to argue, via Craigslist, why she and a fellow student should totally do each other, but modern lust knows no rules. Here’s an excerpt:
ISSUE:
Should we have wild, crazy, meaningless animal sex?
RULE:
Distractions can be very detrimental to success in law school, and should be eliminated whenever possible.
ANALYSIS:
As detailed above in the facts, my desire to be plowed by you is a major distraction from my studies. It’s got to be a distraction to you as well since it’s probably unnerving to be stared at by a predatory sex-starved woman as if she wants to take a bite out of you. Per the above rule, this distraction to both of us needs to be eliminated for us to graduate from law school and pass the bar exam.
It’s not Oliver Wendell Holmes, but it does demonstrate a good grasp of the IRAC method. With a little more focus, she might even make law review next spring.
Oh, Craigslist, where were you when I was in law school? I get wistful when I think of all the hopelessly desperate ads I could have posted late at night in the vain hope that the cute blonde in Health Law would read them.
Credit to BoingBoing for the tip.
