Torts Law for Dummies

Most students study Torts by reading famous cases about falling packages or escaped animals. The bar exam does not care about these stories. It cares if you can recite the four elements of negligence and apply them to a new set of facts in under two minutes. This course shifts your focus from understanding the law to performing the law. You will learn the specific language that earns points and the traps that lead to wrong answers.

We start with Negligence because it makes up half of the Torts questions on the MBE. You will move through intentional torts, strict liability, and the smaller topics like defamation and privacy. For every topic, you get a plain English rule statement and the specific exceptions that examiners use to trick you. We focus on the rules as they are tested, not as they are taught in a 1L classroom.

By the end, you will have a mental library of rule statements ready for an MEE essay and the ability to see why an MBE answer choice is a trap. You will know exactly which standard of care applies to a child, when a landowner owes a duty to a trespasser, and why truth is a defense to defamation but not to certain privacy torts. This is about building the muscle memory required to pass the bar.