Bar Exam Library — Complete 10-Volume Collection

Federal jurisdiction through preclusion and appeals, in the order the Federal Rules apply them.

• Federal question, diversity, and supplemental jurisdiction
• Personal jurisdiction, service, venue, and transfer
• Erie doctrine and choice of law
• Pleadings, Rule 12 motions, and Rule 11 sanctions
• Joinder, impleader, interpleader, and class actions

Structure first, then rights: justiciability, federal powers, federalism, due process, equal protection, and the First Amendment.

• Judicial review, standing, ripeness, and mootness
• Commerce, taxing, spending, and Section 5 powers
• Executive power and the Youngstown framework
• Preemption, anti-commandeering, dormant Commerce Clause
• Procedural and substantive due process

Common law and UCC Article 2 tracked side by side, from governing law to remedies.

• Governing law and hybrid contracts
• Offer, acceptance, and UCC § 2-207 battle of the forms
• Consideration, promissory estoppel, Statute of Frauds
• Parol evidence and interpretation
• Defenses: mistake, misrepresentation, unconscionability

Substantive criminal law and the constitutional criminal procedure sequence in one volume.

• Actus reus, mens rea hierarchies, and causation
• Homicide, manslaughter, and felony murder
• Theft, burglary, arson, and property crimes
• Inchoate crimes and accomplice liability
• Justification and excuse defenses

The Federal Rules of Evidence in rule order, with the hearsay system built step by step.

• Relevance and FRE 401-403 balancing
• Character, propensity, habit, and Rule 404(b)
• Competency, impeachment, and rehabilitation
• Lay and expert opinion under Daubert
• Authentication and best evidence

Estates and future interests forward to recording acts, mortgages, and land use.

• Present estates, defeasible fees, and future interests
• Rule against perpetuities
• Concurrent ownership and cotenant rights
• Landlord-tenant, assignment, and sublease
• Easements, covenants, and equitable servitudes

Intentional torts, the full negligence sequence, strict liability, products, and dignitary torts.

• Intentional torts and their defenses
• IIED and NIED
• Duty, standard of care, and negligence per se
• Breach, res ipsa loquitur, and custom evidence
• Actual and proximate causation

Agency, partnerships, LLCs, and corporations, including fiduciary duties and shareholder litigation.

• Agency formation, authority, and liability
• General partnerships, LPs, and LLPs
• LLC formation, management, and veil piercing
• Corporate formation and promoter liability
• Corporate finance and shareholder voting

A drafting manual for every MPT deliverable, from reading the task memo to final triage.

• MPT format, timing, and scoring
• Reading the task memo and extracting the deliverable
• File analysis and fact extraction
• Library synthesis and authority hierarchy
• Objective memoranda and persuasive briefs

The Model Rules rule by rule, covering both the MPRE and the essay treatment of ethics.

• Regulation, admission, and discipline
• Unauthorized and multijurisdictional practice
• Formation and scope of representation
• Competence, diligence, and communication
• Confidentiality and its exceptions