{"title":"Meet MIRAT: Legal Reasoning Fragmented into Learnable Chunks","authors":"J. Wade","doi":"10.2139/SSRN.2406990","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"This paper sets out an acronym MIRAT which summarises the standard framework and cycle expected for answers in law school exams, and to a lesser extent for advice in legal practice. The letters stand for Material facts, Issues, Rules, Arguments each way, and Tentative conclusion.","PeriodicalId":43058,"journal":{"name":"Legal Education Review","volume":"2 1","pages":"14"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7000,"publicationDate":"1991-03-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"10","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Legal Education Review","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.2139/SSRN.2406990","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
This paper sets out an acronym MIRAT which summarises the standard framework and cycle expected for answers in law school exams, and to a lesser extent for advice in legal practice. The letters stand for Material facts, Issues, Rules, Arguments each way, and Tentative conclusion.