Appendix A
Areas Tested On The Multistate Bar ExamThe following chart represents the approximate scope of coverage for each of the five subject matters tested on the MBE.
| Constitutional Law (33 questions) | 50% of questions will be based on: |
| Nature of judicial review | |
| Separation of powers | |
| Relations of nation and states in a federal system | |
| 50% of questions will be based on: | |
| Individual rights | |
| Contracts (34 questions) | 60%: Formation of contracts |
| Conditions | |
| Remedies | |
| 40%: Consideration | |
| Third-party beneficiary contracts | |
| Assignment of rights and delegation of duties | |
| Statutes of frauds | |
| Parol evidence and interpretation | |
| Impossibility of performance and frustration of purpose | |
| Discharge of contractual duties | |
| Criminal Law and Procedure (33 questions) | 60%: Homicide |
| Other crimes - theft, receiving stolen goods, etc. | |
| Inchoate crimes; parties | |
| General principles (acts and omissions, state of mind, etc.) | |
| 40%: Constitutional protection of accused persons | |
| Evidence (33 questions) | 33%: Presentation of evidence |
| 33%: Hearsay and circumstances of its admissibility | |
| 33%: Relevancy and reasons for excluding relevant evidence | |
| Privileges and other policy exclusions | |
| Writings, recordings, and photographs | |
| Real Property (33 questions) | 75%: Ownership |
| Rights in land | |
| Titles | |
| 25%: Real property contract | |
| Real property mortgages | |
| Torts (34 questions) | 50%: Negligence |
| 50%: Intentional torts | |
| Strict liability | |
| Products liability | |
| Other torts |
APPENDIX B
Hofstra Law School Faculty Members, Grouped by Area of Interest/ExpertiseMiriam Albert: Contracts, Corporate and Securities Law
Alafair Burke: Criminal Law & Procedure
Robert Baruch Bush: Mediation and Alternative Dispute Resolution, Torts
I. Bennett Capers: Criminal Law, Law and Literature, Race and the Law
Robin Charlow: Criminal and Constitutional Law
Nora Demleitner: Criminal, Immigration, International and Comparative Law
J. Herbie DiFonzo: Matrimonial and Family Law, Torts, Civil Procedure
Janet Dolgin: Family Law and Health Law
Eric Freedman: Constitutional Law, Civil Procedure, Death Penalty
Monroe Freedman: Legal Ethics, Contracts
Leon Friedman: Constitutional Law, Copyright, First Amendment
Linda Galler: Tax
Mitchell Gans: Tax, Wills, Trusts and Estates
Elizabeth Glazer: Transactional Skills, Jurisprudence, Property
Daniel Greenwood: Corporate and Securities
John DeWitt Gregory: Matrimonial and Family Law, Animal Law
Joanna Grossman: Gender Discrimination, Family Law, Wills, Trusts and Estates
Grant Hayden: Labor Law, Employment Discrimination Law, Voting Rights, Disability Law
James E. Hickey, Jr.: International Law, Energy Law, Property
Bernard Jacob: Real Estate
Lawrence Kessler: Criminal Law & Procedure, Torts, Evidence, Trial Advocacy
Stefan Krieger: Clinics, Housing Rights
Julian Ku: International Law, Constitutional Law
Eric Lane: Legislative Process, Constitutional Law
Theodor Liebmann: Child and Family Advocacy, Clinics
Serge Martinez: Community Development, Clinics
Richard Neumann: Civil Procedure, Lawyering Skills, Transactional Law, Negotiation, Contracts
Ashira Ostrow: Property, Real Estate
Alan Resnick: Bankruptcy and Commercial Law
Andrew Schepard: Family Law, Alternative Dispute Resolution (on leave Spring ’08)
Norman Silber: Consumer Law, Commercial Law, Nonprofit Law, Legal History
Ronald Silverman: Real Estate, Property (on leave Spring ’08)
Roy Simon: Legal Ethics, Antitrust, Civil Procedure, Contracts
Barbara Stark: International Law, International Family Law
Vern Walker: Torts, Product Liability, Scientific Evidence, Administrative Law, EU Law
Lauris Wren: Immigration Law, Clinics
Michelle Wu: Legal Research, Copyright