Welcome back to the Bar Exam Toolbox podcast! Today’s episode is part of our “Listen and Learn” series, where we review a substantive area of the law and apply it to fact patterns. This time, we’re focusing on the Statute of Frauds in Contract Law.
In this episode we discuss:
- The types of situations that courts have decided are particularly open to fraud
- The elements of contract formation
- What are the rules and exceptions to the Statute of Frauds?
- Analyzing two Contracts questions, from the July 2011 and July 2019 California bar exams
- How you should structure your essay answer when discussing the Statute of Frauds
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Resources:
- Private Bar Exam Tutoring
- California Bar Examination – Essay Questions and Selected Answers, July 2011
- California Bar Examination – Essay Questions and Selected Answers, July 2019
- Podcast Episode 64: Tackling a California Bar Exam Essay: Contract Law
- Podcast Episode 71: Tackling an MEE Contracts Essay Question
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- Podcast Episode 88: Listen and Learn – Negligence Per Se
- Podcast Episode 89: Listen and Learn – What Is Hearsay?
- Podcast Episode 91: Listen and Learn – Logical and Legal Relevance
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- Podcast Episode 97: Listen and Learn – The Reasonable Person Standard
- Podcast Episode 98: Listen and Learn – The “Battle of the Forms” Under UCC 2-207
- Podcast Episode 101: Listen and Learn – Present Sense Impression vs. State of Mind
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