policy question on exam

[rene_descartes]

Hi everyone

My professors like to give policy questions on exams; and i'm just wondering what is the  best way to answer a policy question? One example would be some hypothetical legislation and you are supposed to comment onthis legislation using policy arguments. Is there a specific formual i should follow for these policy questions?

Thanks.

[cooleylawstudent]

can you remember his question? What was your responce to it?

[CJScalia]

Common sense, coherently and rationally. There's no "IRAC" alternative for a policy question, if that is what you're looking for. What the professor is looking for when asking a policy question is your ability to communicate and be persuasive for your point of view. Don't try to copy what you believe (or even know) that the professor thinks about the issue, it's just going to piss him off. He didn't spend a semester to make you a copycat.

[cooleylawstudent]

so then you'd recommend.....