Welcome back to the Bar Exam Toolbox podcast! Today, in an episode from our “Listen and Learn” series, we’re talking about anticipatory repudiation, which is an often-tested issue both on the MBE and on Contracts essays.
In this episode we discuss:
- What is anticipatory repudiation?
- What constitutes an “unequivocal communication”?
- Presenting a demand for adequate assurances of the contract’s completion
- Rights and remedies available to the non-repudiating party
- Topics that anticipatory repudiation is tested alongside of
- Going through two hypos from bar exam Contracts essays
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Resources:
- Bar Exam Workshops and Tools
- “Listen and Learn” series
- California Bar Examination – Essay Questions and Selected Answers, February 2015
- California Bar Examination – July 2018 Essay Questions 1, 2 and 3
- Examples & Explanations: Contracts, by Brian A. Blum
- Podcast Episode 64: Tackling a California Bar Exam Essay: Contract Law
- Podcast Episode 71: Tackling an MEE Contracts Essay Question
- Podcast Episode 95: Listen and Learn – Promissory Estoppel
- Podcast Episode 102: Listen and Learn – The Statute of Frauds
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