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1

Introduction

Welcome & How to Use This Course

Real Property

Estates, future interests, landlord-tenant, and conveyancing

1

Adverse Possession

Hostile, Open & Continuous

2

Fixtures

Real vs. Personal Property & Annexation

3

Present Estates

Fee Simple, Life Estate & Defeasibles

4

Future Interests: Grantor

Reversion, Possibility & Right of Entry

5

Future Interests: Remainders

Vested, Contingent & Executory

6

Rule Against Perpetuities

Lives in Being & Vesting

7

Concurrent Estates

Joint Tenancy & Tenancy in Common

8

Landlord-Tenant Duties

Habitability & Quiet Enjoyment

9

Lease Assignments & Termination

Sublease, Assignment & Eviction

10

Easements: Creation

Express, Implied & Prescriptive

11

Easements & Covenants

Running with the Land

12

Deeds & Recording Acts

Race, Notice & Race-Notice

Contracts

Formation, performance, breach, and UCC Article 2

1

Consideration

Bargained-For Exchange

2

UCC Article 2 Warranties

Express, Implied & Disclaimers

3

Formation & Mutual Assent

Meeting of the Minds

4

Offer, Acceptance & Battle of Forms

UCC 2-207 & Mirror Image Rule

Writing Requirements & Exceptions

7

Parol Evidence Rule

Integration & Interpretation

8

Conditions & Breach

Material Breach & Substantial Performance

9

Excuse of Performance

Impossibility, Impracticability & Frustration

10

Remedies

Expectation, Reliance & Restitution

11

Third-Party Rights

Beneficiaries, Assignment & Delegation

Constitutional Law

Federal powers, individual rights, and constitutional protections

1

The Commerce Clause

Congressional Power to Regulate Commerce

2

Dormant Commerce Clause

State Regulation & Preemption

3

Taxing & Spending Powers

Congressional Fiscal Authority

4

State Action & Sovereign Immunity

Constitutional Limitations

5

Procedural Due Process

Notice, Hearing & Mathews Balancing

6

Substantive Due Process

Fundamental Rights & Liberty Interests

7

Equal Protection

Levels of Scrutiny & Classifications

8

The Takings Clause

Eminent Domain & Regulatory Takings

9

Freedom of Speech: Overview

First Amendment Foundations

10

Freedom of Speech: Content Regulation

Unprotected Categories & Forums

11

Freedom of Religion

Establishment & Free Exercise

Evidence

Relevance, hearsay, character evidence, and privileges

1

Relevance & Rule 403

Probative Value vs. Prejudice

2

Character Evidence: Rule 404

Propensity & the Mercy Rule

3

Prior Bad Acts: Rule 404(b)

MIMIC & Non-Propensity Uses

4

Public Policy Exclusions

Subsequent Remedial Measures & Offers

5

The Definition of Hearsay

Out-of-Court Statements & TOMA

6

Non-Hearsay Purposes

Effect on the Listener & Verbal Acts

7

Hearsay Exceptions: FRE 803

Present Sense, Excited Utterance & More

8

Hearsay: Unavailable Declarant

FRE 804 & Former Testimony

9

Opinion Testimony

Lay & Expert Witnesses

10

Testimonial Privileges

Attorney-Client, Spousal & More

Criminal Law

Elements of crimes, homicide, defenses, and inchoate offenses

1

Actus Reus & Mens Rea

Homicide: Manslaughter

Voluntary & Involuntary

4

Property Crimes

Theft, Robbery, Burglary & Arson

5

Inchoate Crimes

Attempt, Solicitation & Conspiracy

Self-Defense, Insanity & Intoxication

Criminal Procedure

Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Amendment protections

1

Fourth Amendment: Search & Seizure

Warrants & Probable Cause

2

Fourth Amendment: Privacy

Reasonable Expectation of Privacy

3

The Exclusionary Rule

Fruit of the Poisonous Tree

4

Miranda Rights

Custodial Interrogation

5

Sixth Amendment Rights

Right to Counsel & Jury Trial

6

Confrontation Clause

Testimonial Statements & Crawford

Torts

Intentional torts, negligence, strict liability, and products liability

1

Intentional Torts to Persons

Battery, Assault & False Imprisonment

2

Intentional Torts to Property

Trespass, Conversion & Necessity

3

Negligence: Duty & Breach

Reasonable Person Standard

4

Affirmative Duties

Special Relationships & Undertakings

5

Causation

Actual & Proximate Cause

6

Causation & Damages

Eggshell Plaintiff & Harm

7

Negligence Defenses

Comparative Fault & Assumption of Risk

8

Strict Liability

Abnormally Dangerous Activities & Animals

9

Products Liability

Manufacturing, Design & Warning Defects

10

Vicarious Liability

Respondeat Superior & Joint Liability

Civil Procedure

Federal court jurisdiction, pleading, discovery, and preclusion

1

Jurisdiction Overview

Introduction to Federal Court Power

2

Federal Question Jurisdiction

Arising Under & the Well-Pleaded Complaint

3

Diversity Jurisdiction

Complete Diversity & Amount in Controversy

4

Corporate Citizenship

Principal Place of Business & Nerve Center

5

Supplemental & Removal Jurisdiction

Pendent Claims & Removal Procedure

6

Personal Jurisdiction

General & Specific Jurisdiction

7

The Minimum Contacts Test

Personal Jurisdiction Continued

8

Venue & Transfer

Proper Venue & Forum Non Conveniens

9

Erie Doctrine

State vs. Federal Law in Diversity Cases

10

Pleading Standards

Twombly, Iqbal & Plausibility

11

Joinder of Parties & Claims

Permissive & Compulsory Joinder

12

Class Actions & Intervention

Rule 23 & Intervenor Rights

13

Discovery

Scope, Privileges & Work Product

14

Preclusion

Claim & Issue Preclusion

15

Justiciability

Standing, Ripeness & Mootness